Final Jeopardy: TV Props (12-12-24)
Here are some more clues from the 12/12/2024 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.
BRIDGES ($1000) Spanning the Royal Gorge in Colorado, America’s highest bridge is nearly 1,000 feet above this river
DODGEPODGE ($200) Synonyms for dodge include this one courtesy of Latin vadere, “to walk”
($1000) In 1865 Mary Mapes Dodge opened a literary can of Dutch Boy & gave Hans Brinker this title footwear
NATIONAL BIRDS ($1600) In 1984 Denmark replaced the skylark with this not-so-vocal bird species, Cygnus olor
($2000) The streamertail hummingbird, this country’s national bird, can be found in the Blue & John Crow Mountains National Park
TOP ROW OF THE KEYBOARD WORDS ($800) It’s a regional version of a complimentary word, as in “that’s a real ____ dress you’ve got on”
($2000) “A fit of” often precedes this, a feeling of irritation or resentment
GEORGIA ON OUR MINDS ($1200) This Georgia church where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached bears the name of a memorial erected by Samuel in the Bible
The players missed 4 clues in POETRY FILL IN THE BLANK:
($400) Wordsworth: “My heart leaps up when I behold a ____ in the sky: so was it when my life began; so is it now I am a man”
($1200) Emily Dickinson: “Because I could not stop for death/ He kindly stopped for me/ The carriage held but just ourselves/ And ____”
($1600) W.E. Henley: “I have not winced nor cried aloud / Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody but ____
($2000) Anne Sexton: “I have gone out, a possessed ____, haunting the black air, braver at night”
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($200) Wanna buy some HOG, the ticker for this 2-wheeled company? Climb on board, chum
($400) Microsoft, Alphabet & 5 other stocks are part of what’s known as this group that shares its name with a 1960 Western film
($600) In 2022 Twitter had this happen to it in regard to the NYSE, which made Twitter a private company
($800) In part an homage to its HQ in Dallas, LUV is the stock ticker symbol for this company
($1000) In 2023 a stalled IPO & co-founder Jack Ma’s selling of shres led to this Chinese tech co. losing $21 billion in market value
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Another clunky FJ. That was over complicated for a rather straightforward question. I got it, BTW.
Also 3/3 on DD.
I don’t know Alex from my hometown, and his name rang no bells. But, my take on J! is, just say something. Anything.
Congrats to the new champ!
Those darn comedians! My eyes lit up when I saw “60s sitcom,” but unfortunately that was one I never watched.
Not a bad game, even for a runaway, but they left too many on the table for my liking. The type of swallow; dodge/vadere; Hans Brinker’s footwear; King’s church; Henley’s poem (shame on them. I used it on my wife’s funeral program); LUV airline symbol.
Well, none of the contestants got FJ right, and neither did I for that matter. In fact, the only thing that I could think of which vaguely matched the clues was the sitcom ‘The Beverly Hillbillies”.
Oh, I hope everyone reads the Ernest Henley poem. The name of it is Invictus. It’s not only inspiring, the history behind it is jaw-dropping.
I believe Jeopardy! has used the ending lines in other clues:
“I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul”
Our third triple stumper resulted our second straight FJ! losing week. I can’t remember the last time that we have back-to-back losing weeks in the final.