Final Jeopardy: Supreme Court Justices (11-26-24)
Here are some more clues from the 11/26/2024 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.
IT’S PHYSICS! ($2000) A CERN document call it a material composed of electrically neutral particles that can…flow without friction”
THAT’S A FACT ($1600) This language is celebrated every July 26– in 1887, that was the publication day for “Unua Libro”, or “First Book”
($2000) Winston Churchill was born at this Oxfordshire palace, a nice example of Baroque architecture in England
IN TOLERABLE ($800) It’s a common location for piercing & a crease in one may be a sign of coronary heart disease
($1200) It’s the higher end of the audio frequency range in broadcasting & sound recording
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: PIGEON FACTS AND LORE
($200) Homing pigeons delivered the results to the participating cities in these events in 776 B.C.
($400) In “On the Origin of Species”, he agreed with other naturalists that all pigeons descended from the rock pigeon
($600) In 1850 Paul Julius Reuter started a news service using carrier pigeons where there was a 76-mile gap of this technology
($800) This reclusive electrical genius claimed to be in love with a pigeon & believed the pigeon loved him back
($1000) For saving nearly 200 WW1 soldiers with a message, the pigeon Cher Ami was awarded this French military decoration
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I didn’t see the comma either, and went with Earl Warren for FJ. Yeah, I was way off, but Alito or Scalia? Not a chance! Regardless, that was some tough FJ to be sure.
I said Felix Frankfurter. Oh well! To co-sign Howard, yuck! Alito and Scalia? Sammy would be 108 today, and he ain’t!
I looked Frankfurter up — he was himself an immigrant, born in Vienna. Coincidentally, Benjamin Cardozo died the same year as Brandeis. Frankfurter was nominated by FDR to fill Cardozo’s seat.
Some of these tidbits might come in handy in some future game. I wonder if I’ll even remember them!
Probably starting with Brandeis, there was an unofficial “Jewish seat” on the Court. Continued with Frankfurter and later RBG. There was a nomination of Abe Fortas that got shot down for some conflict of interest. The bar is much lower now for confirming justices.
Alito, Scalia? Yuck. I guess they didn’t see the comma. I was 90% sure it was Brandeis. The 3rd DD was tough, the first two very knowable. Disappointing, although they had pretty good scores overall.
I knew the Oxfordshire palace. I was hitchhiking from Cambridge back to Oxford. A man who gave me a lift recommended I check out the palace, Churchill’s birthplace. So I walked over there, but it was closed that afternoon. I did see his gravesite across the street by a church. The ear piercing spot was super obvious.
I thought they were focusing on Italian immigrants. Scalia and Alito had not been born yet. Both had fathers who were immigrants.
As for the crossed out Thurgood, he was born in 1908 but his parents weren’t immigrants.
I missed the comma in the final jeopardy question and was focusing on who was born in 1916. I’m thinking perhaps two of the contestants were as well, due to how it was written.
All 3 DDs were missed resulted our sixth skunking of the season. I hope William Weyser will say darn those daily doubles to Ryan.