Final Jeopardy: News From the Stork (10-29-24)
Here are some more clues from the 10/29/2024 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
SINGING THROUGH THE CENTURIES ($1000) In legend, Blondel found this captive brave English king by singing a song they’d written together
REALITY & COMPETITION TV SHOWS ($600) Taking place mainly in the Klondike but in the present day, not in 1897, this is one of Discovery’s top-rated shows
($1000) Joe Tessitore & Rob Riggle host this show where folks putt their mini golf skills to the test on a supersized course
SORRY, NO SHAKE TODAY ($800) It follows “shake” to complete a simile that might apply especially to Aspen trees
($1000) It follows “shake hands” in a referee instruction & in the title of an old compendium of great early 20th century boxing matches
THE MACHINE’S BROKEN ($600) As a young man this comedian fixed cars in Boston–if, say, the Kennedys’ Rolls was in the shop, he’d drive it on dates
($1000) In 1962, software that lacked a bar over “R” in a radius symbol doomed this oceanic spacecraft 1, NASA’s first effort to reach Venus
HISTORIC WOMEN ($000) In 1895, aged 80, this 3-named activist published her “Woman’s Bible”, which says the Old Testament proclaims female equality
TIME FOR SOME DRAMA ($400) The protagonist of August Wilson’s “Fences” is Troy Maxson, a once-great but frustrated player of this sport
($1200) Wellborn Kate poses as a barmaid to win her man in Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to” do this
($1600) Her play “The Heidi Chronicles” won both a 1989 Tony & Pulitzer
($2000) This Nobel-winning Brit’s plays like “The Caretaker” are marked by his characteristic pause-filled dialogue
AN “A” IN PSYCHOLOGY ($1200) Easily confused with a verb, as a noun it means the experience of emotion or feeling
JOIN UP! ($1600) Join a yoga studio–maybe start with this gentle discipline from Sanskrit for “force”
($2000) Join a river clean-up, maybe of this river, that rises near the same-named falls in Oregon & flows through California to the Pacific
MOVIE OUTLAWS ($1600) In “The Public Enemy” from 1931, gangster James Cagney infamously shoves this in Mae Clarke’s face at breakfast
The players missed 3 clues in PREFIXES
($800) From the Greek for “nation”, it precedes “graphy” & “centric”
($1200) This word starts with a prefix meaning “between” & John Mulaney had a “Star-Studded” one
($2000) In Latin the highest point or peak of achievement is ne plus this, also a prefix meaning “beyond”
PREFIX ANSWERS: show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: GOING DEEP ON THE FAST FOOD MENU
($200) A Salted Caramel Truffle Blizzard Treat
($400) The Pretzel Baconator
($600) Fiery Chicken Fries
($800) Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Tacos
($1000) The Classic French Dip & Swiss
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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Missed most of the show but caught FJ. I was fairly sure “nieves” means snow, but couldn’t decide between Antarctica and the Falklands. (Since there was a war over the Falklands, I wasn’t sure which area has a base.) I was surprised to see such low scores, but now I realize why. Seems as if this group studied up on fast food and not much else.
Somehow I guessed the Klondike show. I really liked the Tessitore/Riggle show, but it wasn’t on this past summer. The Aspen tree clue was pretty obvious. The ref’s instructions are as old as time. Remembered the Venus craft. 3-named activist not difficult. Never saw “Fences” but guessed the sport. “She Stoops to” is somewhat well-known. Brit playwright was easy. Experience of emotion/feeling another gimme. Jimmy Cagney’s smash is classic, guess this group never saw it. The “ne plus” phrase wasn’t that impossible. That’s 11 right there.
What an ugly Tuesday game today. Low scoring game with lots of triple stumpers and the material didn’t seem to fit all three players today. All three contestants played very poorly today with 21 triple stumpers and less than 6,000 heading into Final. Not good at all. This has got to be the worst game ever in a long time.
Well, don’t forget that John would have had a much higher score — maybe even a runaway — if only he had remembered to phrase his DD response in question form.
I sure hope he’s more careful tomorrow.
Yeah, that’s one thing I cannot forgive on J! It’s the raison d’etre. Once, maybe, but, twice? That is totally a “you” problem, not a “me” problem.
I said “Islas Malvinas” for FJ. I knew I knew “Nieves”, but could NOT come up with it in time. I had the proverbial “blank”. If I ever get on J!, I’m going to use as many alternative/native names as I can, like “Islas Malvinas”, and “Rapa Nui”. I want them to have to go back at commercial break and look it up, and give me my points!
Ha ha ha, Jason. I would love to see that!
Good thing that we didn’t have a daily double wipeout today.