Final Jeopardy: Poets (11-16-23)
Here are some more clues from the 11/16/2023 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.
WHAT THE DICKENS! ($1000) He takes Charles Darnay’s place at the scaffold in “A Tale of Two Cities”
JAILHOUSE ROCK ($1000) This chateau on a tiny rock in the Mediterranean was a prison in real life, not just in “The Count of Monte Cristo”
DAD, GUM IT ($1000) Gumby’s father has this name, from a Bantu word for “okra”
WE’LL SPOT YOU A LETTER ($800) Sixth letter G: Phosphorescence, or the pleasant remembrance of past glory
SCULPTURE ($1600) In this movement, which is French for “hobby horse”, sculptures are made of such items as machine parts
THE NAME OF THE LAW ($1600) The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 was named for James Byrd Jr. & this Casper, Wyoming man
($2000) Named for an Illinois representative, 1910’s White-Slave Traffic Act is better known as this “Act”
The players missed 3 clues in BRIDGE ON THE RIVER:
($400) Southwark Bridge
($800) Old Vicksburg Bridge
($1200) The O’Connell & Seán O’Casey bridges
($1600) The 3,580-foot-long Peace Bridge
($2000) Prague’s Charles Bridge
RIVER ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — POP MUSIC
($200) Before she was an independent woman, Beyonce was part of this group that hit with “Independent Women, Part 1”
($400) In 2021 she became the youngest artist to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with her song “Drivers License”
($600) In 1988 Tracy Chapman had a hit with this auto tune; 35 years later, Luke Combs’ cover of it is a country hit
($800) I’m Hans Zimmer; before scoring films, I could be seen tickling the ivories on this new wave classic by the Buggles, the first ever video on MTV
($1000) Ice Spice & this singer whose fans are called Barbz are fitting on the “Barbie” soundtrack with “Barbie World”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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A glimmer of a Jeopardy! clue with a Blake-Kipling connection has been in the back of my mind off and on all day but I haven’t had a chance to look it up till now. And here it is (from the Feb. 28, 2019 All-Star game):
BRITISH LITERATURE: A chapter of “The Jungle Book” has this double-talk title, echoing the opening line of a Brit’s poem some 100 years prior
Tough but fair FJ. Figured it was Kipling and didn’t go any further. And I’ve never even kippled before.
Those two guys were up and down more than an elevator in the Empire State Building. The Robin Williams DD Scott missed wasn’t terribly difficult.
Someone probably should have known the decorated Christmas item, which of course is of German origin. I’m utterly out of touch with contemporary music, but at least I knew who does “Drivers License.” Shocked no one knew Charles Darnay’s lookalike. I’m pretty sure I walked over the Peace Bridge long, long ago, so that river was obvious. The two missed “Name of the Law” clues were difficult, but I remembered them.
This was certainly a new one on me. I’ve known Blake’s “Tyger” since high school and never heard of this connection. As for Kipling, I knew “Gunga Din” before the “Jungle Book” because the Cary Grant movie of the same name was featured on the Million Dollar Movie one Sunday when I was 8, inspiring my father to recite lines from the poem for days.
Notably, the image they showed for the Peace Bridge was from Canada. (Local bridge here)
Not impressed by these contestants, save one response: when Tim said “Aqua” for the Barbie clue, they did the original “Barbie Girl” almost 20 years ago. “I’m a Barbie girl/In a Barbie world/Life in plastic/It’s fantastic”
But, again, not impressed.
I hope William Weyser would say darn those daily doubles to Scott.