Final Jeopardy: Southern Colleges (11-24-22)
Here are some more clues from the 11/24/2022 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.
20TH CENTURY CAMPAIGN SLOGANS ($1000) His mid-century second term bid used the slogan “Peace, progress & prosperity”
IT’S A THANKSGIVING MIRACLE! ($800) Sorry to say it’s a miracle, fans of this NFL team, but they won! That’s big, what with their 37-43-2 all-time record on the day
BIOLOGY ($800) In hibernating bears this rate slows much more than a drop in body temp would explain, with heart rate going from 55 to 14 eight
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Sneak Peek clues — DOUBLE-T WORDS
($400) In basketball FGA can be short for field goal these, made or not– good try, James Harden!
($800) The second of 2 things mentioned earlier in a sentence
($1200) In the movie “White Nights”, Mikhail Baryshnikov does a 3,960-degree turn, 11 of these spins in a row
($1600) The double T is exactly in the middle of this adjective meaning nervous & easily frightened
($2000) In “Jane Eyre”, Mr. Rochester is “not fond of the” this “of children”, a synonym for “chatter” that also has a double T
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Speaking of “Holzhauerian” comparisons, this game was over after about 5 clues. At least the challengers got into the positive numbers. If it had been a boxing match, the ref would have called it a TKO during the first commercial.
Stumped by FJ, but at least I got the mid-century 2nd term; the biological rate; and the NFL team, which lost another Thanksgiving heartbreaker today.
The double-T stumper reminded me of infamous VP Spiro T Agnew, who once referred to war protesters as “nattering nabobs of negativism.” I was at a Mets playoff game in 1973 when they posted on the scoreboard that he’d resigned. There was a huge roar of approval.
Chris continues to impress with his wide range of knowledge. Happy Thanksgiving to VJ and all your fans!
Happy Thanksgiving! Well that’s one way to celebrate Thanksgiving for our champion and Cris has devoured the competition and gobbled up a big win. He certainly has a lot to be thankful for on this day.
Happy Thanksgiving to all those celebrating today.
Astounding performance from Cris!
As for categories today, I always love it when I can recognize character actors in TV show or movie. Alas, I’m not very current with that these days and only got 2 in that category. I got all the Oscar winners though.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family vj. And also congratulations to cris winning again