Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Novels (11-25-24)
Here are some more clues from the 11/25/2024 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.
HERE’S MY WRITING SAMPLE ($800) “There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word–man”
($1000) “Yeager was standing erect with his parachute rolled up… and staring at them quite levelly out of what was left of his face”
POLYNESIAN CULTURES ($000) Auliʻi Cravalho: “Pearls are French Polynesia’s number one export; the prized black variety is cultivated on many islands but named for this famously beautiful one
BOD-“E” ($400) Meibomian glands secrete lubricating fluids for these coverings, which are closed via a cranial nerve
($2000) It’s the innermost layer of the heart
ANIMAL QUOTES ($2000) In “Richard III” Richard claims, “The world is grown so bad that wrens make prey where” these “dare not perch”
MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSIONIST ($400) 2024 marks 150 years since the first Impressionist exhibition, by a group calling itself by this word for nameless or unknown
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: WORDS WITH DIACRITICAL MARKS
($200) The name of this chili pepper literally means “from the capital of Veracruz”
($400) Herr Hitler of the Third Reich used this title meaning “leader”, Herr Bismarck of the Second did not
($600) It can refer to an embassy staff member with special duties, perhaps a cultural or naval one
($800) We should get a good table, I know this person, the head waiter at the restaurant we’re going to
($1000) At the 2024 Olympics swimmer Léon Marchand was acclaimed as le héros this national word
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In the Polynesian category, when she said “also known as Rapa Nui”, she stole my fire! My nefarious plan, if I EVER get on J!, is to use the correct local name of places, like Rapa Nui, las Islas Malvinas, and the Hellenic Republic! Also, the island mentioned for the pearl actually has “Nui” after it, which means “big”.
I missed FJ. I got bamboozled by the Indian reference, and went with “Gunga Din”.
Wow, Kevin took no prisoners down the stretch. And Adam did himself no favors by blowing that pretty easy Huey Newton DD/animal quote. He likely would have won the game with a correct response there. One of my college dormmates had an all-black feline she named Huey P Cat.
FJ got me. Saw the film many many decades ago. Sad that no one knew that apparently forgotten civil rights icon. His widow spoke at my daughter’s HS graduation 20 years ago. Nameless/unknown word not difficult., same with the chili pepper. Knowledge of the language gave me the Leon Marchand clue. Got only the first half of the heart layer.
Hmmm………It was another great game to be sure, and Kevin became the new Jeopardy champion! Congratulations! As for the 1956 film version ‘Around The World In 80 Days’, I don’t think that the movie actually did the novel itself much justice.