Final Jeopardy: International Universities (11-21-24)
Here are some more clues from the 11/21/2024 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.
NONFICTION ($200) This Southerner went nonfiction with “The Innocent Man”, about 2 men wrongly convicted
($1000) The arrival of birds from Polynesia to the raft of this ethnologist is a great moment in his 1950 book
COHAB VOCAB ($600) A censorious old phrase for a boyfriend & girlfriend sharing a home, or a book about cohabitation in Victorian times
NORSE MYTH ($2000) As “Watchman of the Gods”, he could see 100 leagues; another skill was the ability to hear grass grow, for some reason
STORMING THE CASTLE ($1200) A Jacobite force failed to take this castle in 1715, the ladder they brought turned out to be too short to scale the ramparts
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($200) “The Athens of the South” & “Music City”
($400) George Carlin called this capital of Delaware “The City that Means Well”
($600) You can’t miss out on “The Big ‘O'” aka this city just north of Platte River
($800) In Michigan, it’s A2
($1000) This city on Florida’s West coast: “The Big Guava” & “Cigar City”
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Wow, those two all-in DD wagers were Holzhaueresque. I was pretty sure FJ was Prague, as I remembered the anti-communist demonstrations that year. That gave me a perfect 0 for 4 counting the DDs. I thought the champ would go big on FJ since he had so much distance. It worked out well, but how many times in life do you get a chance to win big bucks on one trivia clue?
Never saw the show, but figured out the unknown stuntman. Censorious phrase wasn’t too hard.
I bet that one clue in the Cohab category wouldn’t have been a stunper if they tied it to a line about a safety pin in the Cleveland Rocks theme song
Wow, Mehal led with such a huge runaway that he couldn’t possibly lose unless he bet the store in FJ. I did well in the Math/Science category as it was obviously a no brainer, but I performed somewhat below average in the game. As for FJ, I had to resort to taking a wild guess, and went with Oxford.
I guessed Tehran on the final, I was thinking of the hostage crisis but that really made no sense. That was pretty tough imo.
I’m happy for Mehal that his last 2 DDs paid off. Nice going! That brings his average up to $23K+
I hope his luck holds out if he decides to go for the gusto tomorrow.
Mehal shocked the audience by making both true daily doubles in the Double Jeopardy round and got them both correct making it really tough for the challengers. 37,600 is the highest score going into Final and 36,263 is the highest payout of the season.