Final Jeopardy: Opera (12-21-23)
Here are some more clues from the 12/21/2023 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.
TRIPLY ALLITERATIVE ($800) When you buy one of these, like a McDonald’s or an Arby’s, you might have to pay the parent company a percentage of sales
UNION ACTIONS ($1000) Black Union sailors John H. Lawson & James Mifflin got the Medal of Honor for their actions at the 1864 battle of this Alabama bay
FOLKLORE & LEGEND ($1200) There’s a statue of this guy, hammer in hand, outside the Great Bend Tunnel in West Virginia
SAMPLING ($1600) Grooves from bands like Parliament gave this West Coast subgenre of rap from the early ’90s its letter-perfect name
PHILOSOPHY ($1200) Tranquility of mind is important in this -ism taught by its founder Zeno from a porch in Athens
($1600) It may produce the greatest good for the greatest number to know this philosopher was a great advocate of utilitarianism
($2000) Attributed to this mathematician & philosopher of ancient Greece is the observation that “all things are numbers”
WORDS & THEIR CHANGING MEANINGS ($400) Once used to mean lust, it’s now a 2-syllable synonym for indigestion
EUR”O”S ($1200) From northern Scotland, cross the Pentland Firth to get to these islands
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($200) Want to give your cream cheese some pizzazz? Add some of these, which are related to the onion
($400) Back in 1936 Louis Meyer drank buttermilk on Victor Lane after winning this auto race & a tradition was born
($600) P.T. Anderson said the line in “There Will Be Blood” about drinking this was inspired by testimony in the Teapot Dome Scandal
($800) Since 1911, a hallmark of its State Fair is a cow sculpted from about 600 lbs of butter
($1000) Jamie Lee Curtis said she did ads for this yogurt brand so she could spend more time at home with her family
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This group was now like I envisioned. The easy DD missed with no response, or the other easy DD with no response, were emblematic. However, to be equitable, I didn’t get FJ, either.
But, as I’ve said, generally (with yesterday being a rare exception), these Second Chance folks show why they didn’t win the first time.
And, if Michael was any more soft-spoken, no one would have been able to hear him!
Wow, 3 tough DDs and FJ. Iris and I expressed shock simultaneously when we guessed that Mediterranean DD answer. Perfect FJ wager she made.
Some of those stumpers were gettable. Zeno’s -ism and the $600 Legend Dairy drink were the two I got.
I seem to remember Emerson Fittipaldi drinking OJ in Victory Lane instead of milk and causing some controversy. He owned an orange grove in Brazil.
Tomorrow will be the 9000th Episode of Jeopardy!.
A tough FJ, but a great game.
And we got a triple stumper since today’s final was a tough one.
Kudos to Iris on her perfect FJ! wager. She knew that if Final was a tough one, she wagered enough to stay above Karen if she also misses and fall below Iris’s score. It’s been a while since someone won the game by a dollar.