Final Jeopardy: World Flags (10-8-24)
Here are some more clues from the 10/8/2024 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.
OREGON ($800) This river flows through Eugene & Portland
($1000) The Columbia River Maritime Museum is an attraction in this city named for a fur tycoon
WHAT’S MY MOTIVATION? ($800) In Genesis God warns Adam that he may eat of every tree except for this one; you’d think that would have been enough motivation, but no
($1000) I’m a highly motivated seeker for a nice, easy job on this alliterative level, below the C-suite but above the factory floor
PEOPLE OF THE BIBLE ($1200) With a name perhaps meaning “man of the javelin”, this son of Enoch lived almost 1,000 years
15-LETTER WORDS ($1600) This noun means the relegation of someone to an unimportant position within a society or group (or piece of lined paper?)
THE FRENCH MASTERS ($400) Georges Braque’s paintings made in the summer of 1908 including “Houses at l’Estaque” are among the first of this -ism
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($200) Don’t ask the private eye what the empty bottle is for during this, a type of surveillance outside a suspect’s house
($400) This box directs data between all of your devices & the wider internet
($600) It’s an individual who receives care at a hospital but doesn’t stay overnight
($800) This TV show warned “There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture…”
($1000) A circus employee who handles the tents & equipment
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Oh, the humanity. What is wrong with these otherwise smart players? Gino trailed Mark by $3800. All he had to do was wager $3801 and hope Mark was wrong on FJ. At worst, he’d finish second. Instead, he blew a win and went home as a bronze medalist. (We can’t diss our fellow contestants in the Facebook group, so I have to do it here!)
Said Australia for FJ but thought all 3 DDs were super easy. I do spend many hours biannually watching the Ryder Cup, so FJ maybe was attainable.
Only one 1850s female sonneteer comes to mind. Come on.
The river between Eugene and Portland is 6 miles from home. That’s a toughie for non-residents to know and to pronounce. Someone should have known the fur trader’s city. That was a titanic miss.
Knew the art “ism” and the son of Enoch who supposedly lived to 969.
The length of a ruler is in pennies? Ouch, that answer didn’t measure up. At least someone nailed it.
As to FJ, I first said NATO, but, with more than enough time to spare, said the EU. That’s one heck of a fact about Uzbekistan, VJ!
Gino gave Mark a challenge. I like it!
I did quite well in the game tonight, but had absolutely no idea of the correct response in FJ. Well, I simply took a wild guess, and went with India (or should I have said a bad guess?). Anyways, as VJ once said, any guess is better than nothing. Well, that FJ was obviously a tough one.
Another triple stumper in the final this week thanks to that pesky geography clue. There will be chaos if we get our third triple stumper tomorrow.
Two clues today — (about the prophet and the 15-letter word describing a societal outcast) reminded me of The Bad Reputation, a French song by George Brassens. I thought some of the posters on here might want to give it a listen (French/English lyrics)
We don’t need a [prophet]
To guess the fate in store for me
If they find a rope they like
For the second day in a row, FJ! was a triple stumper. Are we ever going to get our first triple solve this season. Last week, everyone got FJ! correct but only 2 players were left to play the final round.