Final Jeopardy: Book Characters (12-26-23)
Here are some more clues from the 12/26/2023 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.
FORKS, KNIVES, SPOONS ($800) A classic TV commercial showed that this brand of knife could cut through a tin can & still slice a tomato with precision
ADDEND”UM” ($2000) Peat moss is dead moss at the bottom of a bog, while this moss is found still growing on the surface
The players only missed one clue in HOMOPHONIC PAIRS
($200) A beloved moose
($400) To select doggie treats
($600) Failed to arrive in time for the light fog
($800) A more heavily fleshed falling star
($1000) To employ ornamental evergreen trees of the Taxus genus
HOMOPHONIC ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
($200) Besides her cat, a witch ends up giving a ride to a dog, a bird & a frog in the rhymingly titled “Room on the…”
($400) A Newberry Medal winner, “The One and Only” him tells the story from the perspective of a captive gorilla
($600) A beloved 1964 book by him begins “Once there was a tree…and she loved a little boy”
($800) “The Bad Beginning”, written under this pen name, is dedicated to the “unfortunate” Beatrice, “darling dearest dead”
($1000) In “Ghost Boys” this ghost of 12-year-old Jerome meets that of this real teen whose 1955 murder helped launch the Civil Rights Movement
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I got FJ, although I’ve never read the book. I know of the idea.
I was rooting for Emily – she really adhered to “Go big or go home”!
Emily made me dizzy, yoyo-ing up and down with her score. She surely would have won had she had the lead. It turned out to be a darn good game.
FJ stumped me (I said Stuart little), as did the last two DDs. I thought Emily could/should have known the first one. There were some key clues: 1997, husband Joel, 3 Oscars. But it was a toughie to try to guess. I did see the movie “Charly” long ago, and knew it was based on “Flowers for Algernon,” but that was no help. Cliff Robertson won the Oscar for it.
These “youngsters” must never had the privilege of seeing infomercials for that famous knife that could cut through anything.
Kid lit is a huge weakness, but strangely, the $1000 clue was the only one I knew. Probably should have been put in a lower-$$ box. My sis is a retired elementary school reading specialist, and knows all that stuff. My excuse is that I was too busy as a kid reading the NY Times and the encyclopedia to have read those kid books, LOL.
We saw the daily doubles found in the first two clues of Double Jeopardy! That’s unusual and something we have never seen before.