Final Jeopardy: Sports Teams (11-14-24)
Here are some more clues from the 11/14/2024 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.
HEY, WE MADE THAT! ($1000) Neosporin & Paxlovid
CATCHING SOME RAYS ($800) Watch your step at the Cayman Islands resort city named for these animals
& THE HOME OF THE RAVE ($1000) Collider said this 2023 murder movie “features the best animal performance of the year” (its pooch won the Palm Dog at Cannes!)
20th CENTURY FICTION ($2000) Maxine Hong Kingston said of this 1931 classic, which she read in 9th grade, “it humanized Chinese people”
MUSICAL ETT(E)s ($1600) Robbie Montgomery was an original member of this unheralded girl group that backed Tina Turner on hits like “Proud Mary”
($2000) Though dark-haired, Jeanette Napolitano was the lead singer of this group that in 1990 sang about Joey
AVIATORS ($800) This Cold War pilot was shot down over the USSR in 1960 & now rests at Arlington
($1200) Astronaut William Anders who saw a gorgeous orb coming up and took a photo called this, died at 90 piloting a small plane
($400) Tuskegee Airmen flew under the command of Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the first black person in the 20th c. to graduate from this academy
FASHION DESIGNERS ($1600) This Italian designer became a global name after Richard Gere wore his suits in “American Gigolo”
13-LETTER WORDS ($1600) A prisoner held this way is not allowed any contact with the outside world
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($200) In the game of Scrabble, Qs and Zs have the highest value, this many points for each
($400) If spelunking is your hobby, you like to study & explore these, like Vietnam’s Hang Son Doong
($600) Imitating larval & intermediate forms, nymphs & emergers are 2 of the main types used in this variety of angling
($800) A Winter Olympic sport since 1998, it uses what was originally called a “snurfer” when invented in 1965
($1000) Earn points by collecting cards of the same rank into groups called melds in this card game with a name from Spanish for “basket”
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Got FJ right away, but I’m a recovering sportsaholic.
Momentarily thought Stephanie wouldn’t get the French author/flier, but she just got it in. I’d have made that same guess.
Pretty good competition, but they left too much gravy on the table. The Chinese 1931 novel; father of tragedy; Tina’s backup singers; the Cayman rays that weren’t manta rays; and the Cold War pilot. (I believe I’ve mentioned this before, but when I lived in SoCal in the 70s, that pilot was the NBC affiliate’s helicopter traffic reporter. He died in a crash.)
It almost made me cry when they didn’t get Pearl Buck’s famous novel. Great book. Good film, too.
When my 2 oldest kids were teens, we read this book out loud to each other. They got a big kick out of the way the characters described others as “such an one”. I told them to just read it as “such a one” but they wouldn’t. For a while, they used it in regular speech to comic effect.
Loved Stephanie, who remembered Straub Beer from her home town of St. Marys PA.
Had no idea on the final, that was tough. I thought the two daily doubles except the French author were pretty easy.