Final Jeopardy: Word Origins (10-9-24)
Here are some more clues from the 10/9/2024 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.
41 ($600) In honor of Brian Piccolo, 41 is a retired jersey number of this NFL team
GREEN VEGGIES ($600) The name of this green veggie cultivated in ancient Rome is from the Italian for “cabbage sprout”
($1000) Nearly 100% of the USA’s production of this thistle is grown in Central California & much of that is the green globe variety
ALLITERATION ($800) The idea that a certain mammal can clean out an egg without breaking it may have led to this phrase for evasive language
MEDIEVAL NOTABLES ($600) Little is known of a 10th century Spanish woman known as Ende the Illuminator except she was a very good this
41 ($400) George H.W. Bush famously pledged to work toward a nation nicer in these 2 ways
($2000) GHWB earned the DFC, short for this, as an aviator for 58 combat missions during World War II
ANATOMY ($400) An anatomist might say these are just the big joints where the finger bones meet the hand bone, not the other little ones
($1600) The bottom 5 vertebrae fuse in early adulthood to make up this wedge-shaped bone
“U” KNOW ($1600) It’s from the Latin for “one side”
PLACE THE BOOK ($1200) Written in the voice of Hemingway’s first wife Hadley: “The ___ Wife”
($1600) A Newbery Medal winner set in South America: “Secret of the ____”
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($200) The Gulf of Bothnia separates Sweden & this country
($400) The name of this peak that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is Pão de Açúcar in Portuguese
($600) This Saudi capital is located at the junction of 2 wadis, Hanifa & Al-Batha
($800) Turin & Ferrara are cities on this river
($1000) The northernmost of Japan’s 4 main islands, it’s also the second-largest in area
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I said Leatherstocking, Natty Bumppo, and Chingachgook, and knew it was JF Cooper, but just could NOT come up with the answer. 2/3 on DD.
Colleen gave away a few freebies by giving half an answer.
I didn’t recall the football story exactly, in the 41 category, so, in my minds eye, I said the Cleveland Browns! Oy!
Anna, really, in the Medical Terms category, the $400 clue was about the least medical term one could use; that is, I, as a medical professional, would never say that to another.
Wow, I thought they’d all nail that pretty easy FJ. Couldn’t be trailblazer since “trail” was in the clue. Very surprising. I’ve been to Cooperstown but never read any of his works.
Mark obviously not familiar with that terrific Bob Seger tune. A number of lines in it directly describe my move to LA and meeting my future wife, 50 long years ago.
Brian Piccolo team; thistle veggie; Bush’s two words; DFC medal; big joints; and one-side U word all very gettable. Only the third DD eluded me.
Wow, another great game. As for the FJ, I came up with ‘trailblazer’, but that was just after the clock had run out. Oh well!
For the third game in a row this week. FJ! was a triple stumper. It’s not been a good week so far for FJ! this week. It looks like we won’t get any correct responses this week and there is a chance it might happen with 0 out of 15 correct responses in Final this week.
A lot of tough final this week as we got another triple stumper.