Final Jeopardy: America at War (12-28-22)
Here are some more clues from the 12/28/2022 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.
6-LETTER VERBS ($600) The stock markets love this word that can mean, among other things, spend time on & give power to
($1000) As a means of making amends, it’s sometimes done to “the beef”
LITERARY CHARACTER NAMES ($1600) He’s a sensitive member of J.D. Salinger’s Glass family; at one point, it’s spelled as 2 words like “perceive extra”
($2000) “You were never there”, a girlfriend tells this hero of Bret Easton Ellis‘ “Less Than Zero”; other people just seem to mold him
THE HUMAN BODY ($1200) Adrenaline is another name for this hormone secreted in times of stress by the adrenal glands
($1600) From Latin for “hard mother”, it’s a tough membrane protecting the brain & spinal cord
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — IT HAD TO BE HUGH
($400) To bulk up for his Wolverine roles, he did a lot of weightlifting & consumed 6,000 calories a day
($800) In 1953 he informed newstands that “Stag Party– a brand new magazine for men– will be out this fall”
($1200) Claire Danes is married to this British actor who recently played Jack Barber in the movie “Downton Abbey: A New Era”
($1600) Hugh Downs was the longtime host of this game show; Alex Trebek later hosted a classic version
($2000) This Brit was out of the House as Ryan Clark on “Avenue 5” episodes like “He’s Only There to Stop His Skeleton from Falling Over”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Those stumpers and FJ were too tough for me, although I did know the Downs/Trebek game show from having watched it when I was young. Also tried out for it in NYC very long ago. My well-read aunt turned me on to JD Salinger when I was in college, so I knew the character’s name.
Regarding FJ, I figured that the battle was part of the War of 1812, but I just couldn’t come up with the specific one.
I am happy to see Ray winning game 10 and I hope he ties with Johnathan Fisher in game 11 soon.
Weird … I posted a 2nd comment and now the 1st has disappeared.
Congratulations to Ray on #10. He’s a likable fellow, but that swaying is distracting.
So, I guess I’m still struggling to understand the distinction between a national and Federal holiday. I think all federal holidays are established by Congress, whereas national holidays are observed by all the states, regardless of whether they are federal holidays? Kinda like a Venn Diagram?
DC, different sites say different things about the difference between national and federal holidays. Some say there is no difference in terms of what is open and what is closed. However, federal holidays are established by Congress, then the President signs it into law, Juneteenth being the most recent.
Actually, I could not find any law making January 8th a national or federal holiday, but from what I saw online today, it is still on the books of the State of Louisiana!
P.S. I don’t know why your first comment disappeared but I found it and restored it.
Thanks for all that VJ. The definition of a federal holiday seems clear cut, but the national holiday much less so.
Yeah, I guess people use the two words interchangeably though. I honestly think the whole thing somehow got twisted over time and January 8th was mainly celebrated in Louisiana.
I am sure that WIlliam Weyser would say darn those daily doubles to Ray’s challengers.
And no Hugh Grant! Those blue eyes are famous in the UK….
Neither Grant nor O’Brian showed up in today’s extra J6! clue:
He wrote 8 “Dr. Dolittle” books in the 1920s
That horrible Hugh Lofting, VJ, lol
Nor Huey (Hugh) Lewis.
And let’s not forget Hugh Masekela who had a No. 1 hit in the late ’60s with the instrumental version of “Grazing in the Grass”.
Speaking of No. 1 hits, Johnny Horton’s “Battle of New Orleans” was a No. 1 hit in 1959. All the kids would laugh and snicker at the line “and really gave ’em …. wellllllll”
Sorry this comment is late, VJ – but I loved those two songs (for totally different reasons!) Glad they have not been forgotten! Seems there are a lot of Hughs out there. Well done to commentators who brought them up.
No apology necessary, Sam! when I was a kid, Johnny Horton’s Greatest Hits was one of the albums that my parents played when we were going to sleep. (Another was Johnny Mathis). I played Johnny Horton for Nikki when she was just a little one. She loved his song “Whispering Pines” and would ask me to put it on when she went to bed.
I was disappointed that they didn’t have Hugh O’Brian in the “Hugh” category. I wonder if Ray knows who he was.
Ray didn’t go in all on the first daily double he found in the first round. But he is now a 10 day champion and becomes the 16th player to win at least 10 games and the last superchampion of the year 2022. So far no one has ever lost in their 11th game. We’ll see what he does in the penultimate game of 2022.