Final Jeopardy: Kings & Queens (12-13-21)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 12/13/2021 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.
CHEMISTRY ($400) To get this from brine, use the Dow process or insert 2 letters after the “br”
SAY SOMETHING SILLY, PROFESSOR ($2000) This lonely alien brought “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” to space so he could have playmates
5 old clues related to Queen Anne:
04-03-1991: BRITISH ROYALTY ($400) This Stuart queen, a heavy drinker, was known derisively as “Brandy Nan”
02-27-1990: DESIGN ($300) Characteristic of Queen Anne furniture, the cabriole style is used for this part of a chair or table
11-07-1998: EUROPEAN HISTORY ($800) When England’s Queen Anne died, this German became king because he was a great grandson of James I
06-01-1988: ROYAL ANNES: ($300) Familial relationship of England’s Queen Anne to the queen who preceded her, Mary II
12-24-1986: ROYALTY ($1000) Virginia’s Prince George County, formed in 1703, was named for the husband of this queen of England
ANSWERS: show
Sneak Peek clues – 19TH CENTURY LIT
($200) This children’s classic tells us that the title character was made from a very ordinary piece of firewood
($400) The title of this Jules Verne tale refers to the distance traveled, not to how deep the characters go
($600) Title of the Emma Lazarus sonnet read at the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition in 1883
($800) This writer of poems like “Dover Beach” also worked as an inspector of schools
($1000) This German’s 1803 “The Natural Daughter” was not a success, though Schiller liked it
ANSWERS: show
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Tonight’s game was a joy to watch. Sam had a perfect game with no incorrect responses. Very impressive. His only glitch was a mathematical error when wagering in fj. Lucky for him J. P. was wrong.
Speaking of J. P. I bet his classes fill up fast.
It’s disheartening that a prof of operations research can show such mathematical ineptitude. I wish JP had got FJ right. The look on Mr. Buttrey’s face would’ve made my day!
I could only come up with Mary Queen of Scotts too, but I knew that she reigned well before that.
Queen Anne was not the daughter of William and Mary. Mary (who is technically Mary II) was the eldest daughter of James II. When James was overthrown in 1688, his daughter Mary and her husband William became joint monarchs. William III and Mary II had no children, and so upon William’s death in 1702 (Mary II had died earlier) the throne went to Mary’s younger sister (and James II’s second daughter) Anne.
Thanks for setting that straight, Frank. 😁 I went a little sideways on that path but it’s fixed now.
Let’s hope tomorrow will have a triple solve in the semi finals. Lately we haven;’t had any during the entire professors tournament. I do remember learning about Queen Anne during grade school history and about the beheading of Mary Queen of Scots. I thought JP had a very strong chance of getting into the finals given how well did last week but oh well that daily double must not have been in his favor today.
Sam miscalculated, and he would have lost, had J.P. gotten it right, but it worked out for him. $19,000 was Sam’s score going into Final Jeopardy!. $26,401 is Sam’s score after Final Jeopardy!.
So that means we’re not going to have an all male or all female final of the Professors Tournament but we will have a female in the final of the Professors Tournament.