Final Jeopardy: U.S. Businesses (11-28-24)
Here are some more clues from the 11/28/2024 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.
LIFE SCIENCE ($400) Fish need shade too, sometimes provided by these, the floating leaves of plants such as Nuphar advena
($600) A desire to work in the kelping professions may lead you to phycology, defined as the study of these
($800) Geneticist Polly Fordyce dislikes this term for the 98% of DNA that is non-coding; much of it does come out in gene expression
TURKEY DAY ($600) Made with molten glass, a nazar boncuğu is a Turkish amulet used for protection against this negative force
GEOGRAPHY ($1600) Maxing around 160 feet deep, the relatively shallow Korea Bay is the northeastern arm of this “colorful” sea
A REAL SMOKE SHOW ($400) We’re still not too sure about a lot that happened on this ABC show, but for sure the Man in Black is also the Smoke Monster
A PROJECT ($1200) In “Project Hail Mary” by this author, the amnesiac Ryland Grace has to save the Earth & find out how he got “beach-bod buff”
-OLOGY ($800) In “Middlemarch” Mr. Casaubon is writing a book on this & in debating “the solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight”
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: FUN WITH ZIP CODES
($200) 89109 is the zip code for most of the hotels on this city’s strip
($400) Batter up & head to this Chavez Ravine ballpark that’s not in 90210 but in its anagram, 90012
($600) The city of Schenectady has 11 zip codes; the highest in number is this, & it’s easy as…
($800) When writing to this famous residence, use the zip code 20500
($1000) Zip codes go up to 99950, which belongs to a city in this state
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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I did a little above average in the game, and all of the contestants were sharp tonight. Regarding the FJ, I have never heard of Chuck E. Cheese. In fact, I’ll check to see if there was even one such location in Michigan.
Yes, there are indeed 12 Chuck E. Cheese locations in Michigan, and one located a dozen miles from me. However, I’m not sure that anyone that I know had ever dined there. It certainly wouldn’t have been me as I was never fond of pizza.
My niece and nephew are between 27 and 30 years younger than me. My mother and sister would take them to C-E-C’s (Chuck’s given name is Charles Entertainment Cheese), and my now-departed mother would say that calling it pizza is an insult to bad pizza. She said it couldn’t be any worse. Ironically, my nephew worked there some 15 years later!
And, Nolan Bushnell, who founded Atari, also founded C-E-C!
I seriously thought that the smartest person on that stage was Ken. Even that Schenectady ZIP – ABC? Huh?
I got FJ, and was 2/3 on DD.
I have a ZIP code story: my ZIP in Waipahu HI was 96797. Say your handwriting was atrocious, and your second 7 looked like a 9. Do you know where 96799 is? About 6k miles away, in American Samoa!
Oops, forgot to change channels during football game.
One of those very rare times when I found all 3 DDs and FJ easy.
Knew the zip code stumpers. My cousins live in Schenectady, and I remembered the first 3 digits there. The rest of it was obvious.
The “doing everything right” phrase is well-known in baseball and has spread into the language. Figured out the fish shade plants and kelpology subject, and the colorful sea. I watched the first two episodes of that ABC show and gave up on it, but there was enough in the clue for me.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating the holiday.
I was hoping my son would get to watch the show today but he called me and said he can’t because he’s watching football and having company. So I read him the Final Jeopardy! clue. I knew he would get it because his first job was playing Jasper T. Jowls at Chuck E. Cheese.
Before that, he disagreed with me when I said if you eat the same thing everyday you’ll get sick of it. He changed his tune about that after too much free pizza. 🤣🤣🤣
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! This is a great way to end the Thanksgiving day show with everyone getting Final correct.