Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Transportation (11-15-24)
Here are some more clues from the 11/15/2024 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.
THIS AMERICAN WIFE ($400) Glenbach is (well, could be) shorthand for Glennon Doyle & this wife, a retired soccer star
($600) After marrying Elliot in 1938, this inventor had 2 kids, Barbara & Ken, who were not thrilled being mom’s inspiration
TOOLING UP ($800) This 3-letter tool makes small holes in wood… get our point?
LAST LINES OF BOOKS ($1000) A 5-word title: “In that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing”
ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON ($1600) This piglike mammal has a prehensile snout that it uses to grab leaves while foraging & as a snorkel while swimming
SCULPTORS ($400) He was born Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi in Florence & his works there include “St. Louis of Toulouse”
($800) In 1993 this Asian-American architect crafted a sculpture celebrating women’s co-education at Yale, her alma mater
($2000) This alliterative muse of Auguste Rodin found fame as a sculptor in her own right
“M”ISCELLANY ($800) The aptly named Samantha Bond played this personal assistant in the films “GoldenEye” & “Die Another Day”
($2000) The name of this swift & dangerous current in the Arctic Ocean has come to be used for a large, fatal whirlpool
4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY ($1200) This city in Lombardy at the tip of a lake with the same name has a museum dedicated to silk
The players missed 4 clues in FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES:
($400) In Chinese slang, xue ba is a studious bookworm but with more respectful overtones than this English equivalent out of Dr. Seuss
($800) In Yiddish a shande is this, also a TV show created by a Shonda, & a shande far di goyim is one in front of the whole world
($1200) At an office in the Netherlands, be prepared for the pleasant custom of vrijmibo, or group drinks at this point in the week
($1600) In cycling, être en chasse-patate, “to hunt a potato”, is to be lost after getting ahead of this group meaning “small ball”
($2000) In the early 1700s the fate of Spain was decided by what its people call this word “de Sucesión Española”
FOREIGN WORDS ANSWERS show
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We end the week with another triple stumper since today’s FJ was a tough one.
I thought at least one of them would know Spruce Goose. I was about 90% sure on that one. It’s been housed for years in a hangar about an hour from my home and is a bona fide tourist trap.
Stephanie’s botch of deify/defy opened the door for Paul to hit that easy, all-in DD on the next clue, propelling him to an eventual runaway.
I was anywhere from slightly to majorly disappointed that they whiffed on the Midwestern school (DD); retired soccer star (BACH); Barbara and Ken’s mom; 3-letter tool; Asian-American architect; Bond’s assistant.
To be fair, the clues in FJ were rather cryptic, and those could throw anyone off (and that was likely what occurred in FJ). .
Ugh! I did rather poorly in the game, but I quickly came up with the ‘Spruce Goose’ in FJ. However, I changed the FJ response to ‘helicopter’ near the end. Oh well!
Haha, Rick, same deal here. I came up with Spruce Goose, but, thought more, and changed to the Bell X-1 (Gen Chuck Yeager flew that in 47 to break the sound barrier).
3/3 on DD. I was predictive that Stephanie would be a short reigning champion. However, it wasn’t luck and weird betting today, just being outplayed.
I was about 40% on TS. Don’t think I ever came across Barbara and Ken’s mother’s name. Saw the movie, but don’t recall names.