Final Jeopardy: International Disputes (11-15-19)
2 more triple stumpers from the final game of the 2019 Tournament of Champions:
“R”CHITECTURE ($2000) The Castle, the Smithsonian Institution’s main building, was designed by this prolific 19th century architect who would go on to design St. Patrick’s Cathedral
MOVIE FOREIGN CITIES ($1600) 1989: “Jesus of ___” (not in the Holy Land)
The players got all the clues in WHAT’S BEING MEASURED? except the last one (*)
($200) Bunders, hectares, jeribs
($400) Knots, Mach number
($600) The Rankine scale, the Réaumur scale
($800) Grams per cubic meter
*($1000) Barrels, fifths, pecks
ANSWERS: show
Answers to Sneak Peek clues — BEFORE, DURING & AFTER:
($400) AMC zombie spin-off about the last thing Wild Bill was dealt, an antiseptic cleansing agent
($800) 2011 NYC protest movement composed of the Jets or Sharks & Mao’s elite quartet
($1200) “Rug-cutting” 1984 Bruce Springsteen tune about Sophie Turner’s title X-Men character who plays NBA hoops in Arizona
($1600) The singer who voiced the ape king in “The Jungle Book” was a leading female opera solist & the “Queen of Disco”
($2000) Andrew Lloyd Weber collaborator whose flooded Asian crop field won an Oscar for writing “Network”
ANSWERS: show
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Vindication. Now pit James vs. Ken vs. Brad in a winningest champions invitational.
Yes!
Brad would win. Brad is strong in ALL areas, while James has a few weaknesses, just a few.
My prediction from July has worked.
Congratulations to James on winning the big one and to emma and francois for an exciting match. This was fun. But I really hoped emma would have defeated James. The daily doubles were tougher than yesterday but still it was a great competition.
Well at least the last daily double was more difficult today, and almost affected the result with it putting James on his heels.
@JP, I didn’t think that DD was that hard. I just thought James lost his focus like he did on that “Jesus of” movie — otherwise, why did he say Nazareth when the clue said “not in the Holy Land”?
Anyhow, now James and Emma are 1-1 and I bet they are already planning the rubber match. lol. I would rather see James face off against Alex Jacob and another gambler in the Battle of the Gamblers. And I’d like to see Emma in a Battle of the Librarians. I’m thinking of Margaret Miles. Anyone remember her 2016 game that Andrew Pau won and all the players finished with over $30K
LINK: 12 more clues from the game
I couldn’t come up with ‘regency’ either. Definitely not super difficult, but more difficult than yesterday’s DD clues in my opinion. I think James, like me, may have been focusing on the ‘architecture’ part of the clue in stead of the hotel/building part. I had no idea the world had an architectural meaning, so I just spun my wheels trying to find a connection.
Do you know how “Rug-cutting” and Bruce Springsteen hints at “Dancing in the Dark”? A quick Google search shows neither “rug” nor “cut” in the song lyrics, and my 28-year-old ignorance cannot find a connection.
JP, when Bruce performs that song in one of his concerts, he always brings someone up on the stage to dance with him during part of the song. It’s Courtney Cox’s earliest claim to fame.
Just look up “cut the rug” — that will explain it
Thanks. I honestly do not recall ever hearing the phrase “cut the rug” in my life.
You’re welcome. idk what generation it really comes from but I heard it from my parents, who probably heard it from their parents. My parents used to always talk and explain things in expressions and riddles and when I was little, I really didn’t know what they meant half the time. lol. Then I went to Catholic school and everything was a parable. OMG! 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, it’s even before our time, right, VJ lol!
Sorry, JP, I should have realized that’s what you were asking.
Well maybe I’ll start hearing it a lot now. I think it’s a well known phenomenon in psychology.
I remember in high school, one time a teacher said he had something “on his person”. The entire class looked at him like he was crazy – we had not heard that phrase before. I think I’ve heard it hundreds of times since.
I don’t doubt it. That happened to me and Rhonda with a Sporcle quiz where the one who made the quiz referred to nations as “polities.” Remember, Rhonda? We never heard that one before and all of a sudden, it began popping up all over the place!
Oh, yes, VJ, I remember polities, and thinking it was a typo for politics lol.
OH! Emma was so close to being the fourth woman to win the Tournament of Champions.
Almost $12000 less is close ???
I don’t know.