Final Jeopardy: Authors (12-13-24)
Here are some more clues from the 12/13/2024 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.
PEOPLE IN HISTORY ($400) An 1806 duel involving this future president resulted in the death of Charles Dickinson
TECHNOLOGY ($1000) Used to carry high frequency signals for TV & Internet connections, it’s the type of cable seen here
IT’S SMALL, WHIRLED ($200) Word found in front of a type of golf: UM INERTIA
($400) A prefix for “one-billionth” gives these uber-tiny machines their name: NOT A SNOB
WALTZES & SONATAS ($000) This alliterative composer wrote 2 violin sonatas for fellow Hungarian Jelly d’Aranyi
ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MINERAL ($800) Used as a decorative stone, malachite get its green color from this element
($1600) The 2 main minerals that make up granite are feldspar & this
($2000) The pygmy type of this small monkey lives in rain forests of South America
“T-W-A” ($1600) There’s no wiggle room in this word for a miser
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: WORD ADDITION
($200) Short word for a commercial + politician J.D. = this jump forward
($400) A kitchen or bathroom essential + 1/18 of a golf round = this natural pit
($600) First name of Ms. Bareilles + Roman fashion = this 1977 battle site
($800) To rotate + a freshwater bony fish = this road with tolls
($1000) Dubble Bubble or Juicy Fruit + Oxford or Brogues = this slang word for a private eye
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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Didn’t watch but I’ll attempt some insight. Ashley’s wager in FJ struck me as odd. Normally someone in her position would bet $10101. Carla, on the other hand, intuited that Ram would wager $3201 (which he could have), get it wrong, and she’d edge him with a correct response with $10101. Great strategy, until it didn’t work. An all-in wager would have won Carla the game.
FJ was a killer, knew the 1st/3rd DDs, should have nailed the 2nd. I saw that TV movie when it was new in 1979. Have to wonder if Ashley knew it or deduced it from the clues.
Knew the TV cable; scrambled type of golf (come on); tiny machines, that’s all. The word additions looked pretty easy.
The link for the alliterative composer took me to the answer for malachite. Took me a while, but I finally thought of the guy.
I was 3/3 on DD, but, I only got 1/2 of FJ. I came up with Douglas, and said, “Hitchhiker’s Guide”, not just could not recall the last name.
I killed it on the TS. And, the landlocked W African nation was what I’ve said, tongue in cheek, was the default answer, which VJ corrected me as not being a one size fits all. But, it worked in this case!
ha ha, touché, Jason… I got it wrong with Chad. You win this time!
I was wondering if the contestants later thought, wow, they said “Adam” 5 times during the game because of one of the categories. ha ha. It reminded me of the time the FJ! answer was the peace sign and the champ had peace sign earrings on.
P.S. It was actually Howard who corrected you on that.
Well, all three players started out in the red, but Ashley remained the champion. The clues in the game seemed to have been much easier this time around. With that being said, I went with Ray Bradbury for FJ