Final Jeopardy: Presidential Candidates (12-10-24)
Here are some more clues from the 12/10/2024 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.
GALLERIES ($600) From 1897 to 1932 what’s now called this “Britain” was known as the National Gallery of British Art
($1000) Making a splash in American art, he had 3 solo shows at the Sidney Janis Gallery between 1952 & 1955, the first featuring “Blue Poles”
A MEAT & POTATOES CATEGORY ($400) Sometimes fried in bacon fat–healthy as can be!–this “colorful” potato dish is pressed into flat cakes in a pan
GRAB BAG ($600) The New Testament says, “Now abideth” this trio of virtues, with the last one being the greatest
($800) In this novel, Major Major Major is made a major by an “I.B.M. machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father’s”
ISLANDS ($800) Palma is the capital of this largest of the Balearic Islands
ADJECTIVES ($1600) From French for green it can mean green in color or inexperienced
BROADWAY MUSICALS ($1600) Inspired by a Seurat painting, this Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine show won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in Drama
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: KING ARTHUR’S VERY PUNNY KNIGHTS
($200) This knight was so plump his belly was equal to pi times his diameter
($400) He told everyone of his skills for when Britain became even more anarchic, like finding food & shelter & making fires in the wild
($600) For a boundary dispute with a rival king, King Arthur called on this knight equipped to settle the issue
($800) This knight had rhythm! Though sadly more to do with 24-hour time periods than with music
($1000) He always took the kind of route named for him–6 hours of twists & turns for what should be a 2-hour ride back to Camelot
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I was 3/3 on DD and got FJ. I don’t know why WJB was stuck in my melon, because, if you showed me a picture of him, I couldn’t identify him!
It was a “moderate” game. Gratz to the champ for a second win.
Good game, good players, but a few too many flubs and stumpers IMO. Dan seemed nervous when he wasn’t at home in the legalese category. And his guess of Nixon was lame, not to mention Honolulu’s island.
Nailed the final! Because the category was candidates, not presidents, my mind took me to Harold Stassen and Wm Jennings Bryan. Was pretty sure the latter ran 3X–I will swear on a cross of gold that he did. Adlai Stevenson I pointed me toward Bryan, ultimately.
I went to that British gallery but had no idea it now has “Britain” in its name.
Bible not my thing, but knew the virtue(s). Very surprised no one knew Major Major’s novel, Palma’s island, or the correct name of the Seurat musical.
First 2 DDs were tricky, third was cake.
Wow, a somewhat tough FJ this time around, and all I could come up with was Harry S. Truman. Yes, this one clue (‘Adlai Stevenson I) obviously pointed to an earlier era, but I didn’t have the foggiest of which presidential candidate that the clues were really alluding to. But “Richard M. Nixon”? No!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways. it was a great game, and I was actually rooting for Dan.
And we end the episode with another triple stumper in the final since it was a tough one.