Final Jeopardy: 19th Century America (11-11-24)
Here are some more clues from the 11/11/2024 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.
SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT ($600) Not the V but the IB version of this “planetary” rocket carried crews to Skylab
LAWN & GARDEN ($600) This alliterative type of vegetation is named for how it protects & fortifies soil when your garden would otherwise be bare
ALLITERATIVE PHRASES ($400) To achieve the ultimate triumph after failure is to have this
MEXICAN STATE CAPITALS ($800) The beautiful city of Villahermosa is the capital of this saucy state down south
($1600) Capital of the same-named state but sometimes followed by de Zaragoza”, it’s the site of the 1862 Battle of Cinco de Mayo
A NO. 1 BESTSELLER THAT YEAR ($800) 2019, Fiction: This story of “Marsh Girl” had everyone humming along
($1200) 1989, nonfiction: “My Turn: The Memoirs of” this ex-First Lady turned heads & pages
IN THE ARCHIVES ($400) In 2024-25 DC’s National Archives is exhibiting hundreds of its 1940s photos by Russell Lee of communities based on this activity
BEASTIE BOYS ($1600) This post-apocalyptic Netflix series follows Gus, who is part-deer, part-human and a big fan of candy
ETYMOLOGY ($400) Helpful in cooking, this word derived from the Latin for “take” originally referred to how much medicine one should mix together
($800) Hebrew for “lampstand” is the source of this, regularly seen at the end of the year
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($200) 1977: this Egyptian president, who traveled to Israel to seek peace negotiations
($400) 1981: this electrician & union leader
($600) 1986: this Filipina
($800) 1936: this twice-divorced American woman
($1000) 1968: the astronauts of this Apollo mission, the first manned one to orbit the moon
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Being Polish, I was able to get the final immediately. The only time in my life being Polish would have paid off.
I’m glad for you Albert as you were likely one of the few people who did get the FJ right.
Congrats, Albert
Tricky final, easy in hindsight, of course. I said Hayes just to say something.
The three DDs weren’t too impossible.
Good game, decent play, but they left a few on the table I thought someone would get. The city from the segregation case; the planetary rocket; the saucy state of Mexico; site of the Cinco de Mayo battle (which just about everyone on Facebook always misspells every May 5); Hebrew lampstand. Very surprised no one knew the “Marsh Girl” book, it was huge and was also a film.
Wow, that was a tough FJ, and I never was very good in riddles. Anyways, I went with William Henry Harrison, and I was sure that was likely going to be dead on arrival. It was another great game though, and I did pretty well myself.
You were only 2 presidents away, Rick…
Harrison, Tyler, Polk
Well I knew off the bat that the clues didn’t match the presidents after Pierce at all so that only left the remaining early 19th century presidents. In retrospect, Harrison would have been a poor choice as he wasn’t even in office that long (a month or two in my recollection) before Tyler took over the reins.
That was a tough final as we begin the week with a triple stumper.