Final Jeopardy: Poetic Characters (12-2-24)
Here are some more clues from the 12/2/2024 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.
CHEERS TO BEERS! ($400) The 4 main ingredients in beer are water, hops, yeast & this germinated barley grain, beer’s main source of sugar
($1000) This popular 400-year-old Dutch brand of beer is known for its distinctive green bottle with a swing-top cap
FLORIDA WOMAN ($600) She was born in the Florida panhandle & at school in Gainesville was named “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi”
($1000) Feminist activist Roxcy O’Neal Bolton of Coral Gables was the driving force behind making August 26 this annual day
THE WEDDED OPERA CATEGORY ($2000) One of Smetana’s best-known pieces is his overture to this opera leading up to a wedding
FIELDS ($2000) Named for the 2nd president of the Tuskegee Institute, this field in Alabama was used to train Black pilots during World War II
AMERICA BEFORE THE REVOLUTION ($1600) On October 19, 1752 Benjamin Franklin published results of his kite/ electricity experiment in this newspaper he bought 23 years earlier
GEOGRAPHIC MOVIE TITLES ($800) Kurt Russell & Val Kilmer got top billing in this movie; Stephen Lang was Ike Clanton
ADD VERBS ($1600) Hey, cowboy, it’s time to ____ that horse, also the word for the gear you’ll use to hitch it to the wagon
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: ANAGRAMMED OCCUPATIONS
($200) Edifice planner TIRE CATCH
($400) Problem solver: THEMATIC MANIA
($600) Rock critic: GIGOLO SET
($800) Java man: AIR TABS
($1000) Beast Mounter: TIMID EXTRAS
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Not a bad game, but Susan was silent for much of it. Living in the PNW, I figured out the beer/bodybuilder title. FJ puzzled me; my lame answer was Little Lord Fauntleroy. Really thought Mike was going to stumble on that Stuyvesant DD. (I was accepted at the HS named for him, as were four of my good friends, but I chose not to attend and never regretted it.)
Speaking of lame, Mike played for 2nd place, wagering only enough to beat Susan if she doubled in Final. He had zero chance of winning that way. He had to know Evan had to wager at least $4601 and miss FJ, so he could at least have bet around $5K.
Someone should have known DJ Diesel and the barley grain. I remember the Carradine song/movie very well. That one was tough. My late bro-in-law was into good beer and intro’d me to the one with the cool cap. I dislike opera but knew Smetana’s somehow. The “beast mounter” clue reminded me of a very funny joke I won’t repeat here.
Wow, a tough FJ to be sure, and I simply drew a blank. On the plus side, we were at least spared another preemption by a football game.
Wow – 1/3 on DD (the beer one I got right, natch), and missed FJ.
Susan seemed a little bit outmatched.
I don’t recall if it was a TS (of those listed, I missed the large majority) or not, but, the one beer clue, when Ken threw some shade – “(blank) is Belgian, this is (blank)”.
Ken’s beer remark was on the triple stumper when Susan guessed Stella Artois.
That was a rough FJ with not enough to go on. The first thing I thought of when I saw “quaint attire” was EAP’s “El Dorado” that starts out “Gaily bedight”, but I also knew Poe wasn’t around to write anything in 1842. Then I remembered the Browning poem. Someone turned the poem into an almost half-hour-long animated tale on YouTube.
I was surprised no one thought of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” when Santa shows up–
“He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot”
That was written long before the Browning poem though.
I didn’t know how much I could give away! I looked at the TS list and didn’t see it – so I looked again, and there it is!
We start the week with a triple stumper since today’s final was a tough one.
You forgot to put 21,800 for Evan because he originally had 22,600 but they had to subtract 800 from his score because he got dinged for that last clue.
Kevin, I fixed that in the part after the last round. The reversal shows the clue was worth $400 so, yeah, they took away double — the $400 he was originally awarded and another $400 for being wrong.