Final Jeopardy: History & The Movies (11-1-24)
Here are some more clues from the 11/1/2024 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.
ALSO A COOKING VERB ($400) It once meant to brighten; now it means to make something easier to understand
($800) This machine equipped with a suction or scooping device is used to deepen harbors & waterways (the cooking term))
LOGOS ($400) A medal designed by Tiffany & Co. is said to have inspired the logo for this New York sports team
STYLING HAIR ($400) Popular in Mexican-American Pachuco culture, this slicked-back hairstyle has a fowl name
($600) Sometimes called a shape-up or edge-up, this hyphenated styling creates a crisp boundary between the hair & forehead
6-LETTER SYNONYM PAIRS ($2000) A Quaker & one of 10 divisions of a Roman legion ANSWER show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: RESTING IN FOREST LAWN CEMETERY
($200) The New York Times’ 1966 obituary headline for this man read, in part,”founded an empire on a mouse”
($400) Rest easy & well, comedic genius Larry Fine of this movie series trio; no one can hurt you in wildly funny way anymore
($600) This Rat Packer’s inscription says “The Entertainer”; his father’s says “Daddy Sam”
($800) In 2009 Elizabeth Taylor (now also on-site), Lisa Marie Presley & Quincy Jones attended his Forest Lawn funeral
($1000) “Frankly, my dear”, his fifth wife arranged for him to be interred next to his third wife Carole Lombard
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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How did two people give such an off the wall same wrong answer? It’s suspicious.
No, I can assure you that the Jeopardy game has always been above board since its debut in 1964 with Art Fleming.
In hindsight FJ wasn’t that impossible, but I just couldn’t think of it. I did see a version of the movie, probably the 1960s one. I was holding my breath to see if Greg would know the cooking term equivalent to pale/whiten.
Never would have known that middle DD. Have heard of the show and even that character’s name, but otherwise don’t know it. The 3rd DD exposed my utter lack of geographical know-how. Shaking my head how they didn’t recognize the machine that deepens harbors. The Forest Lawn clues were fun and not hard.
Sam sure did well to stay in the game, even after missing a big DD.
As for the 1935 movie, I also couldn’t recall any particular film for that year that would have rated the Best Picture Oscar winner. Actually, I quickly thought of Greta Garbo, but none of her films would match the clues.
These are all the other movies that were up for Best Picture. David Copperfield (W.C. Fields) and Les Miserables (Charles Laughton) are films I would watch again. I remember parts of Captain Blood, Top Hat and Naughty Marietta, but not sure if I saw the whole film.
Alice Adams
Broadway Melody of 1936
Captain Blood
David Copperfield
The Informer
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Les Misérables
Naughty Marietta
Ruggles of Red Gap
Top Hat
You mean that were eligible that year, right? At that time, they only nominated 5.
Well, I got that list from the Oscars website. Wikipedia has the same — looking it up, I found this info: the nominations weren’t limited to 5 until 1944.
Before that, it was
1930: 3 films
1933: 8 films
1934: 10 films
1935-36: 12 films
1937: back to 10 until 1944
I got FJ. For idiot savant reasons, I knew it instinctively. I don’t actually think I’ve seen it (despite all the TCM I watch).
2/3 on DD. Haven’t seen the show with Jane Ives.
Alex Trebek often said “How Green Was My Valley” (1941) was his favorite Oscar-winning movie. That film was set in Wales in the late 1800s.
It was still another great game, and Greg was the only contestant who got the FJ right. Actually, no one should have missed the FJ (including myself) as those clues were just staring at you. Well, I just took a wild stab at it in FJ, and went with Casablanca (which I knew was going to be dead in the water).