Final Jeopardy: English Cities (11-18-22)
Here are some more clues from the 11/18/2022 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.
FURNITURE (image) ($400) The tambour is what gives this piece of furniture seen here its name
(image) ($1000) Here’s a chair designed by this pioneer of the mission furniture style
HISTORIC CASTLES ($1200) Poland’s Malbork Castle is the largest in Europe built with these rather than stones
($2000) Built by the Knights of Saint John in the 1100 & 1200s, the crusader castle Krak des Chevaliers is in this Middle Eastern country
PAINT SAMPLES ($800) Benjamin West nailed history painting depicting this man’s “Treaty with the Indians” on the Delaware River
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Sneak Peek clues — BEFORE, DURING & AFTER
($400) Dyed object hunted for on Resurrection Sunday, with fried Chinese appetizers becoming an Alabama football rally cry
($800) Ping-pong a.k.a. that give you an arm joint ache treatable with a curved pasta
($1200) Telepathic Patrick Stewart character shows you the exact place he hid the treasure, a bit of Earl Grey
($1600) Tart “tot” candy for a sketch comedy group in charge of making sure those in school don’t run in the corridors
($2000) Cincinnati Red with 4,256 hits who sits in the White House flower beds, admiring a Hieronymus Bosch painting
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Well, I have to give Andrew props for sticking to his guns. You live by the sword, you die by it. To win big, you gotta bet big, and, sometimes, you will lose.
But, what do I know? I said “Cambridge”!
Sometimes Jeopardy Clue writers baffle me. They inundated the contestants with an entire category on “historic castles” in double jeopardy in this game. Then in final jeopardy up pops a clue with the word “fortress” in it which is a synonym for the word “castle.” Lo and behold, the actual name of the city had the name “castle” in it. When the correct response was revealed Ken Jennings said, verbatim, “He literally built a new castle on the Tyne River.” This repetition pattern in Jeopardy clues is something that we discuss on Spoiler Talk from time to time. Sometimes, the jeopardy clue writers get on a train and don’t know when to get off. I’m surprised I didn’t dream about castles last night.
Happy to see Sam winning the game yesterday. But still I was certain amy would have put this one away.
I’m glad steve martin won a game. I hope steve martin wins the tournament.
Sometimes andrew knows soooo much and other times andrew seems ordinary.
Amy, what were you thinking? A totally non-aggressive wager in FJ. Her $1800 wager locked out Andrew if he doubled and she missed, but left the door WIDE open for Sam, who charged through it. I just don’t get it; she had the overall title in her grasp. Now Andrew can win it all on Monday.
Andrew, Andrew, Andrew: you are absolutely brilliant. You knew a Toni Morrison title I’d never heard of, but didn’t know the fairly well-known French art term for “trick the eye?” I was sure he’d get that one.
The tambour furniture stumper was right there in the picture for anyone to see.
Right on all counts. But maybe Amy was thinking, “Oh, let the old guy have one.”
Andrew went 50/50 on the “eye” questions, both I thought pretty easy.
I forget–didn’t they show a picture of a roll-top desk for the tambour question? That’s different than a tambour desk, which has vertical doors.
Otto, the clue is on the second page and yes, they did show a roll-top. I linked to a picture of one but not the same one that was on the show. All I know about tambour is it means drum in French. But tambour and roll-top do show up together in a google search
Andrew’s last big daily double failure because he timed out.
Hmmmmmm……..I thought it might have been Stratford-upon-Avon too.
It looks like Amy only focused on Andrew when considering her FJ wager amount.
Was that it, DC? Unless I’m mistaken, Amy also left an opening ($25K – $6K) for Sam if she was wrong and he stood pat ($20K) or was right in yesterday’s game. Andrew with $6800, (same pre-FJ score as today), wasn’t even a factor in that one.
Yes, Amy’s Thursday wager was even more baffling since Andrew was a non-factor in FJ. She’s fortunate Sam didn’t seize the opportunity in that game. A $15001 wager or standing pat I could somewhat understand (in the latter case if she thought the TOC FJ’s have gotten really tough) but $6K is a head-scratcher.