Final Jeopardy: Phrase Origins (11-5-24)
Here are some more clues from the 11/5/2024 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.
CANONIZED SHOTS ($800) Born in this town in France, 14-year-old Bernadette had visions of the Virgin Mary, leading to her canonization by Pope Pius XI
($1000) For his work with lepers in Hawaii, work that would lead to his own death, he was canonized on October 11, 2009
SCIENCE ($400) Dying in a Pasadena hospital in 1985, he followed reports of a terrible earthquake off the coast of Mexico
THE LAWYERS’ NOTES ON MY NEW MEMOIR ($1000) You may refer to this company only as “an Indianapolis-based provider of medicines founded in the year of our nation’s centennial”
A TAXING CATEGORY ($800) In 1943 Congress mandated this process via which employers deduct taxes from workers’ paychecks
($1200) A homonym of a word meaning to cut out, they’re taxes n specific goods, services or activities
“OON” DOGGLE ($1600) In European armies of old, it was a mounted soldier armed with a musket
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: HYPHENATED WORDS
($200) Designed to prevent pilferage, like devices attached to some merchandise
($400) There are 2 hyphens in this word for someone who pretends to omniscience, & I better not hear you call me one
($600) A life-like depiction of a character or, more literally, having length, breadth & depth
($800) A minor role for a stage actor, or an unrecruited athlete who tries out for a college team
($1000) It originally meant a race contestant who performed best while in the lead; now it just means the current leader
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Show was scheduled for 1 am here, so I didn’t stay up or record it.
Very rare night–I hit all 3 DDs and that cinch Final.
The “leprosy guy” was pretty easy, also the earthquake guy. Sort of remembered the SoCal ski area from when I lived there long ago. Hard to believe they didn’t know the name for taxes taken from paychecks. Same with the taxes on goods and activities. (Maybe I’m too harsh, having worked a combined 30 years for SSA and IRS!)
So, from the recap, I was 3/3 on DD, and got FJ. It helps living here in Erie Co NY!
As for TS, I was living in HI when that person was canonized!!
Greg was smart to recognize his opportunity and bet big on that $800 Animals on the Map DD.
Even though they didn’t have an American saint in that Canonized category, they did cover 5 different nationalities. The patron saint of England is considered to have been Greek. Then they had one Italian, one English, one French and the priest who worked in the leper colony in HI was Belgian.
I wrote about Bernadette, the French saint in the other TS, in my article about the “incorruptibles”
This is lame. Jeopardy shows on my local CBS affiliate. This specific affiliate has two channels. Usually, if something is on the main one, they move WoF and J! over. The normal program at 7pm on the second channel is local news at 7. Not, today, they have the local news – which are showing national stories, which were just shown on the 6:30 national news!
All told, I want Jeopardy!!
Greg is currently the biggest winner this season and has won over 110,000 so far. There are a lot of preemptions due to the Election night coverage.