Final Jeopardy: World Leaders (12-23-24)
Here are some more clues from the 12/23/2024 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.
WHO? WHERE? WHEN? ($1000) A future philosopher named William; around 1285; being born in this village in Surrey, now near Heathrow Airport
WORDS FROM HINDI ($1000) This word for a large heavy vehicle & a villain in “Deadpool 2” comes via Hindi from Sanskrit for “lord of the universe”
NAME THAT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ($1600) This former dean of Harvard Law School was pictured with a robe & gavel in her 1977 New York high school yearbook
AFRICAN AMERICANA ($800) An early Sharon Jones recording had the alliterative title “The” this gesture “Dip”
AFRICAN AMERICANA ($1600) Many at HBCUs, the “Divine 9” are important BGLOs, short for these, & include Omega Psi Phi
($2000) In 1966 this Dept. had the 1st African-Amer. Cabinet Secy., Robert Weaver; 5 others since have also been black, including Ben Carson
THE CINEMATIC VAMPIRE ($800) Lily-Rose Depp: “Playing the delightful death-dealer Selene in this franchise, Kate Beckinsale showed she can kick all kinds of ass
($1600) Nicholas Hoult: “Ages-old Miriam in ‘The Hunger’ was played by this Paris-born actress; her sanguine tastes ran from David Bowie to Susan Sarandon”
($2000) Nicholas Hoult: “Max Schreck starred as the dastardly Count Orlock, whose fingernails & fangs set the template for the future in the grandfather of vampire films, 1922’s “Nosferatu”, directed by this man
The players missed 3 clues in WORLD WAR I WORDS
($400) To be zigzag was to be this, perhaps from too many French 75s
($800) In 1917 the London Times wrote of “the unity of the fighting front and” this civilian parallel
($1200) British soldiers were Tommies; U.S. soldiers were these, from the name of a national symbol
($1600) In Britain, “conchie” was a derisive term for one of these
($2000) Adapted from German, this word originally meant to punish but soon came to mean to shoot at the ground from the air
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($200) umbilicus
($400) patella
($600) scapula
($800) sternum
($1000) pollex
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I wasn’t really concentrating, so my DD results aren’t applicable. But, I did get FI. First said Castro, but, nearly immediately, said Chavez.
I got the body parts, including the last clue that was a TS. Likewise, I did do better than half right on TS in total.
I don’t get the vibe that Laura is a “cooler”, but, her winnings are in the lower echelon. I think, though, that this was the first game for her that left clues unrevealed.
On this 37th anniversary of my near-miss on “Jeopardy!” I felt compelled to at least get FJ tonight, as I did then. But it wasn’t to be; I could think only of Castro.
Slow and steady won the race for Laura. Sean gave it a go but couldn’t find a DD. Knew the “Matchmaker” and “Lend Me a” clues, the Harvard Law dean; the Cabinet department; guessed the Paris-born actress.
That summit was 15 years ago. The only ones still in office since then are:
Brazil – Lula (35th Pres. then, 39th Pres. now)
Dominica – Roosevelt Skerrit (Prime Minister)
Guyana – Bharrat Jagdeo (was Pres. then, is VP now)
Nicaragua – Daniel Ortega (still Pres.)
St. Vincent & Grenadines – Ralph Gonsalves (Prime Minister)
Manuel Zelaya was Pres. of Honduras then. His wife is Pres. now and he is First Gentleman
I met Ralph Gonsalves over 20 years ago, in St Vincent!
Very cool. Jason! He was in the news a couple of years ago when he boycotted the summit because Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua weren’t invited.
Hmmmm……….I didn’t do all that well in the game, but gave the FJ a good try at least. My first thought was the Columbian leader at that time, and then Hugo Chavez. But Hugo Chavez? I just couldn’t picture that this country would have allowed the Venezuelan leader into the states, but I didn’t figure that the two leaders had met elsewhere. Well, Presidents Obama and Chavez only briefly met, and it was probably just as well since it was obvious that the Venezuelan leader didn’t have much of a regard for this country.
And so, I then went with the Peruvian leader Fujimori.
So Jennifer is the latest contestant to receive a dismissal from the game as she was unable to get things going.
We begin the week with a double stumper as the Monday curse continues.
This is the fourth consecutive Monday in a row in December that Final Jeopardy was a triple stumper. I loved that Jenifer took a guess on that final clue to get her back into FJ! but she didn’t get it correct and was out of the game.
It’s also the third consecutive Monday when the game was a runaway
12-9 Bill McKinney / 12-16 Ashley Chan / 12-23 Laura Faddah
The final clue was supposed to be on the 30th, but tonight’s Double Jeopardy round’s last clue is on the 26th because there is no time for the four remaining clues.