Final Jeopardy: Artifacts (10-30-24)
Here are some more clues from the 10/30/2024 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.
SHE’S GOT THE POWER ($600) In 2024 Mary Barra, CEO of this company, said the plan to pivot its fleet to all electric cars will take decades
UTOPIA ($1000) This author’s first book, “Player Piano”, about a futuristic society run by machines, was reissued as “Utopia 14” in 1954
WHERE TO GO WHEN… ($1000) You’re Cain in the Bible & you just “went out from the presence of the Lord”: “the land” of this
1980s CATCHPHRASES ($800) The movie “Heathers” popularized “What is your” this word instead of “What is your problem?”
($1000) This pair of rhymingly named “SNL” bodybuilders said, “We want to pump you up”
THAT’S A REALLY BIG DITCH! ($800) Forming part of the border between Serbia & Romania, the Iron Gate is a 2-mile-long gorge on this river
($1200) Liechtenstein Gorge in this Alpine nation, not the principality, has a staircase for great views & is not for the vertigo-prone
FRENCH AUTHORS ($2000) This infamous author of “Justine” & “Juliette” was a prisoner in the Bastille
“B” IN SCIENCE ($800) Indium is in the periodic table group named for this element
NO, NOT THE DOG ($2000) 10-S tennis supply sells all sorts of these items for balls, from baskets to mowers to tubes
SONGS ($1200) In 2010 Bruno Mars tossed out this No. 1 hit that begins, “Easy come, easy go”
($2000) Ariana Grande says “Cinderella” by this late alliterative rapper is about her
The players missed 2 clues in BEFORE & AFTER:
($1200) A maybe-not-here-tomorrow business that sends a legion of zombies to attack a farmhouse
($2000) A truck with a trailer attached to haul the most ancient collection of Hindu sacred hymns
BEFORE & AFTER ANSWERS show
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: SPEAKING REVERSIBLY
($200) A not-fun-to-change piece of babywear & gave back the load in full
($400) A pilsner and relating to royal
($600) Sherlock Holmes’ sister in 2 Netflix movies & without assistance
($800) A minor dispute or tiff & a military bugle call
($1000) To drop off a package Fedex-style & defamed or ridiculed
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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John nearly did it again. As I said yesterday, one thing I cannot abide is not playing the game correctly. It’s straightforward and not tricky in the least.
I got FJ. I have a story about that, too. About 8 or 9 years ago, wife and I were in NY, and went to the main branch of the NY Public Library. We walk by this display, and my wife (an artist, with an interest in art history) says, “Is that what I think it is?”, when we only had an edgewise view. It certainly was – a copy of the Gutenberg Bible! That was, like, the highlight of the trip, and we went to the opera!
The trivia game that John mentioned, I only knew it by its newer name, Masterminds. It’s announced as a game of “(something), strategy, and skill”. However, the strategy is THE most simple – get the most questions correct. And, unfortunately, it looks like no new shows are being created.
Someone please tell me what else FJ could have been other than what it was.
Rare occasion–knew all 3 DDs. Wasn’t that canyon the one Evel Knievel tried to jump?
Definitely knew Mary Barra and guessed the Serbian/Romanian river. Figured out the failing business/zombie film. It was fun figuring out the reversibles. Last one was tough and took me too long to come up with.
No, it was the Snake River Canyon, in Idaho.
It was another good game, and certainly better than yesterday’s disaster. As is typically the case, the contestants always seem to have trouble recalling CEO Mary Barra’s company. Perhaps that is why that particular clue continues to pop up from time to time. Personally, I did about average in the game, and the FJ was obviously referring to bibles. Actually, “bibles’ were what I came up with, and they certainly weren’t the King James’ version (those bibles clearly came out much later).