Final Jeopardy: Political Phrases (11-26-19)

BIG BODIES OF WATER ($800) About 378,000 square miles: also called the East Sea, it borders Sakhalin Island

DEEP STUFF ($400) The Internet that has not been indexed by these is the deep web

($600) This 8-letter type of digitally manipulated video has realistic face swaps, like Nicolas Cage’s face on Amy Adams’ body

SCRAMBLED EGGS ($1000) flood bites

“TRON” LEGACY ($1600) Ernest Lawrence won a Nobel Prize in Physics for this particle accelerator

AMERICAN CATHEDRALS ($2000) Nicknamed “St. John the Unfinished”, this New York City cathedral is the world’s largest Gothic one despite still being under construction

The players missed 3 clues (*) in FUN WITH G20 COUNTRIES:
($400) Its name also refers to a creature known for its wattle
*($800) These 2 start off with the same 6-letter word
($1200) This member shares its name with a Terry Gilliam film
*$1600) The 2 members with the initials S.A.
*($2000) Population about 500 million, it’s the only G20 member that is not a country in its own right

ANSWERS: show

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — MUSICAL QUOTES:

($400) A talented violinist, he said, “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music”
($800) He has humorously said “My songs are like anchovies. Some people love them. Some people get nauseous” (img)
($1200) Mahalia Jackson said, “Blues are the songs of despair, but” these “songs are the songs of hope”
($1600) Horace Walpole wrote of this composer’s oratorios, they “thrive abundantly.. they give me an idea of heaven”
($2000) Nietzsche said of this opera composer, his former friend, “His art presses with the weight of a hundred atmospheres”

ANSWERS: show

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9 Responses

  1. Leo Keil says:

    Why was the player allowed to change his answer on the Mahalia Jackson question? Is the new rule that you can keep guessing until you get it right?

    I remember on other shows where a player tried that, was ruled incorrect, and another player buzzed in with the first player’s second guess which was correct.

    • VJ says:

      @Leo, Alex didn’t call Ian wrong. It seemed like Alex thought “hymns” might be an acceptable response and he was hesitating to get feedback from the judges. Ian changed to “gospel” before the time ran out so it was okay.

      idk what the judges would have ruled if Alex had rejected it right away. On the one hand, a lot of gospel songs are hymns. On the other, it was a quote.

  2. Dal Higbee says:

    I hope Friday will be our first ladies’ game.

  3. Ismael Gomez says:

    Tough Final Jeopardy and I said on Thursday that no one knows about American History.

  4. Lou says:

    I really don’t understand how the contestants didn’t come up with the new deal. I mean it wasn’t that tough. I would love to see a triple solve hopefully by the end of this week VJ. Any history majors would definitely get this one.

    • VJ says:

      @Lou, I guess we could also compare it to the situation on WoF yesterday, where the puzzle spelled out something that no one thinks of as a “phrase” – in that case, I think they interpret phrase as something people commonly say. Today, it looks like they were thinking of a phrase FDR is famous for and not a policy

      LINK: 16 more clues from the game

  5. JP says:

    I’ve never been so surprised by a Final Jeopardy outcome.

    As always, the easiest questions are the ones you know.

    • VJ says:

      In a way, it made me think of one of the J!6 clues today, that just works out way too well when it’s multiple choice:

      Of the “I” countries in the G20, this one has the longest name:

      Iceland
      India
      Indonesia

      If this had been a multiple choice, like:

      Meal Deal
      New Deal
      Square Deal

      it would have been just as simple