Final Jeopardy: Poetry & Places (11-13-24)
Here are some more clues from the 11/13/2024 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.
GREAT WOMEN IN SPORTS ($600) Billie Jean King: “A star on 4 WNBA championship teams in Seattle, this woman became the league’s winningest player in 2022″
($1000) Billie Jean King: Before I switched to tennis 1 of the team sports I played was softball; 1 of the most decorated collegiate, natl & internatl players of the game is this UCLA alum & 2-time Olympic gold medalist who became head coach of Liberty University’s team in 2013
ADULT CONTEMPORARY LIT ($600) Robinne Lee wrote this novel about a 39-year-old who falls for a boy band singer; it’s now a film with Anne Hathaway
($800) Known for another series with Anastasia Steele, this author began her “Mister & Missus” series in 2019
KEEPING WARM ($200) The Consumer Product Safety Commission advises that this kind of heater needs this–at least 3′ from anything flammable
($800) A sweater from this 6th-generation family-owned Oregon woolen mills co. will keep you warm
IT’S A SMALL WORLD ($400) In 1815 the Congress of Vienna put this principality under the protection of Sardinia; it became independent in 1861
($1000) Chicken Rock, a rock just big enough for a lighthouse, belongs to this much bigger isle in the Irish Sea
FROM THE GREEK ($400) Many stubby little everyday words are from Anglo-Saxon, but Greek pyxos gave us this, meaning a container or to fight with fists
($1600) When Oedipus vows to find his father’s killer, who in fact is himself, that’s the situational type of this word
YOU’LL LEARN TO ADAPT ($2000) Notes from James Baldwin on how to make this novel into a film helped Barry Jenkins do just that
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: ALSO A BEVERAGE BRAND
($200) A right cross or jab on Oahu
($400) This type of motor engine has an octet of cylinders
($600) It’s another term for an elf or a pixie
($800) No booze in Ontario or Winnipeg?
($1000) This rhyming hyphenated phrase is used to get someone’s attention
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Final stumped me. Poetry not really my thing, although I did get an A in poetry class in college. Got all 3 doubles. They weren’t cinches but were knowable.
Turned out to be a great contest in the 2nd round. I winced all through the first. The WNBA star is a 20+ year veteran who’s in all kinds of TV ads; was sure someone would know Anastasia Steele’s creator; the heater clue was easy but left them cold; the Oregon sweater company is iconic in my corner of the world. The beverage brands clues were clever.
I was 2/3 on DD and missed FJ.
However, this is 100% true. I am not making this up. I was flabbergasted. Last night, for some reason, I was thinking about cinnabar as a source of mercury. I also thought of pitchblende at the same time. But, also, incredibly, I said to myself (maybe out loud) “the null set and the empty set are NOT the same thing”. And, there goes Ken saying they were! They’re not! They ain’t!
That was mondo bizarro. What I am NOT saying is that I am “physic” (psychic). That’s a bunch of tripe and grift. Not, I don’t know why I thought of those things.
It was another swell game, and all of the contestants were rather sharp tonight. Anyways, out of desperation, I took a wild stab at FJ, and went with the Himalayas. Yes, I sure heard of the Highlands.
Has anyone noticed an influx of Canadian players recently? It seems like every week a Canadian is on. Never remember it being that frequent.
It’s hard not to notice, Travis. It seems like one Canadian a week is becoming the norm.
It’s so cool that I found that King Charles reading — tomorrow is his 76th birthday. (I just saw that on tomorrow’s birthday list)
King Charles recited that poem rather nicely. Actually, he would have made a very good orator.