Final Jeopardy: American Authors (11-9-23)
Here are some more clues from the 11/9/2023 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.
A LITTLE LEGALESE ($800) Personal property is sometimes called “goods and” these, from a word referring to bovines
POTPOURRI ($1000) Fretum Herculeum is the Latin name of this strait
OPERATION ($400) Breadbasket: Boycott of discriminatory businesses begun in 1962 by the SCLC, this
MATH SYMBOLS ($400) The integral symbol seen here (image), created by Leibniz, is a stylized “S”, standing for this word
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Sneak Peek clues — ALTERED STATES
($200) OLD FAIR
($400) A FRAIL ICON
($600) SUMO IRIS
($800) SAW NOTHING
($1000) EAR BANKS
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Great, competitive game. I thought both boards were easy, for the most part, and the scores reflected that. FJ got me, though; Hemingway was my go-to.
I didn’t expect these relative youngsters to know the SCLC, which was a big deal when I was a teen. Matt rebounded well after his boo-boo (“brightest”) in the “Love” category, and another one moments later. I was a bit surprised no one knew the 1983 film from the McMurtry novel; that movie was huge and won multiple Oscars. I also came up with the German artist, even though my knowledge of art is minimal. That first altered state was a gimme.
The “More links on page 2” link did not work, but clicking on the “2” below got me there.
Thanks, Howard, I fixed that link.
The only triple stumper I didn’t get was the Math symbol one but that figures 🤣
Very impressive! I was a math whiz in my youth, but that one was alien to me. In fact, I thought Greek letter sigma was the symbol for what Ken said that clue represented.
As per usual (and not as good as VJ!), I got about half the TS correct. For FJ, I said Eugene O’Neill. Faulkner didn’t even enter my mind.
I got the hands, though, also! Not sure exactly why, but, I did!
All three players wagered everything and it would have been a three way tie at zero if Charlie and Jen also missed. We came close to having a tiebreaker but we didn’t get to a tiebreaker. This is similar to the National College Championship on 2/11 when Jess and Liz were tied at 8,400 while Kaden had 3,400. Kaden got it right but didn’t wager anything. Liz also got it right and she bet it all to 16,800. Jess also bet it all but she missed and finished with zero. So Liz won and we didn’t get to see a tiebreaker.