Final Jeopardy: Super Bowl History (12-19-24)
Here are some more clues from the 12/19/2024 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.
U.S. HISTORY ($600) Located in Wyoming & of volcanic origin, it was the first U.S. national monument to be established
500 QUESTIONS ($600) In a Dr. Seuss story about bullying, this young boy is somehow wearing 500 hats on his head
POTENT POTABLE RHYME TIME ($600) Entomb the fortified Spanish wine ANSWER show
A WORD IN A SHAKESPEARE PLAY TITLE ($400) As a holiday it celebrates the halfway point of a harvest season
($1600) Pitching for the Yankees, Tommy John once committed 3 of these on one play
BOOMERS ($1200) Astronaut Kathryn Sullivan spent lots of time in orbit & was fittingly born on the day of the Bobby Thompson home run known as this
($2000) Oversized steel versions of inflatable pool toys are one consumer culture-influenced series by this artist
WRITE FOR TV ($1200) Crime writer Walter Mosley lent his pen to this FX series about South Central drug dealer Franklin Saint
GO JUMP IN THE OCEAN ($400) If you want to get a book off the Barents Shelf, you’ll have to jump into this ocean
($800) Way down on the ocean floor, the process of subduction creates these, like the Java & Aleutian ones
($1600) The North Atlantic gyre has 4 parts: the North Atlantic Current, the Canary Current, the North Equatorial Current & this warm flow
INITIALS FROM GREEK GOD TO ROMAN GOD ($400) E to C: As mommy, Aphrodite was out & Venus was in for these 2 li’l guys
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 3-LETTER, 3-LETTER
($200) It comes between “ready” & “go” in a preparatory phrase
($400) In collegiate parlance, they’re the first 2 words of the acronym BMOC
($600) This Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie title is also something that completes a spiffy men’ outfit
($800) It’s a hyphenated adjective meaning “understated”; in recent slang it’s an adverb too, as in “He ___ wants to go out with you”
($1000) Nothing to do with a sober marathon, it’s a term for a rehearsal or practice
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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Ah, Super Bowl, my dream category. I’ve seen 57 of the 58 and had to work for the one I missed. I know that there were 3 prior to the moon landing, and those participants were Green Bay (2), Oakland, KC, Baltimore and Jets. All the others have returned. Four have never made it there, and Minnesota and Buffalo have lost multiple times without a victory. Maybe this is the year?
Continuing in the sports vein, the Tommy John clue was a gimme. What else could a player do 3X on one play? The Bobby Thomson clue would be known mostly by we aging baseball fans. Entomb Spanish wine also a cinch. The halfway holiday not too awfully hard, neither was the 3-3 understated term. No one knew the 3-letter word between ready and go?
Not sure about what Laura was thinking with a $2400 wager. If all 3 had been correct, she’d have finished third. $6401 would have been the safe wager, and as it played out, would have won anyway.
Memo to Eric: MY NY Giants have been in 5 Super Bowls and won 4!
My first thought was indeed the Green Bay Packers , but that team had returned to the Super Bowl since the moon landing. Other than that, I gave the Dallas Cowboys a passing thought, and then I pretty much drew a blank.
Howard, Eric did get one word of that “ready, ___, go” clue. He didn’t realize that the category required a 2-word answer. Idk why no one else rang in but the way I’ve always heard and said this phrase is “on your mark, ___, go”
My daughter Nikki is a big Giants fan. She even bought herself and her kids Giants shirts. That cost a pretty penny.
What we had today was a very competitive game, but the FJ was an absolute killer. In fact, the champ bet it all in FJ, and then lost everything. As for me, I did better than average in the game, but also flubbed the FJ. With the exception of major league baseball and heavy weight boxing, I was never much into the other sports.
That’s because they don’t know about football.
They surely know more about the sport than I do.
Tough final as we got another triple stumper.
Like February 1st, 2018, today is not the player’s day for football.