Final Jeopardy: Famous Names (12-29-23)
Here are some more clues from the 12/29/2023 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.
FINANCE TERMS ($200) Wearable term for the process of getting full rights to assets you’ve earned as an employee
($600) 2-word phrase for the profits made from selling an asset like your house or your Alexander Ovechkin rookie card
TV WRITERS ($800) Writers like Matt Groening & Michael Saikin brought us this animated Netflix series, sort of an anti-fairy tale
IT HAPPENED IN DECEMBER ($800) The Mayflower spent several weeks at Provincetown before arriving in Plymouth Harbor in December of this year
A MASTER-FUL CATEGORY ($800) The “Father of” this type of dance is Wm. Henry Lane, aka Master Juba, who used African-derived rhythm & elements of the Irish jig
($1200) The classic anti-drug song “White Lines” by Grandmaster Melle Mel was fittingly remixed for this 2023 film
GLAD-JECTIVES ($1600) Add “-ation” to the end of this adjective meaning happy & you get a stage of canonization
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — WORDS ON THE MAP
($400) It’s a circle of the earth that passes through both poles; the one through Greenwich is considered “prime”
($800) On a national weather service map, T.S. indicates this possible precursor to a hurricane
($1200) A contour is a line on a map that connects points that have equal this
($1600) The Mercator is one variety of this method in which the curved surface of the earth is portrayed on a flat surface
($2000) According to the “Rand McNally 2024 Large Scale Road Atlas” map of Arizona, one this equals about 20 these
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Is it my imagination or have more people been wagering everything on the Daily Doubles since James Holzhauer was on the show? Any thoughts, anybody?
That’s a more recent thing. Then again, there’s been this ton of tournaments, where, yes, people are doing it.
How long ago was James on? What, 4 years, is it? Yes, almost 5.
I don’t know if Christopher was worried about getting it wrong, but, for his DD wager, I think he did it wrong. Even in these 2 day affairs, it’s go big or go home. Now, he’s in a hole versus both Greg and Xanni.
I have a feeling Greg is going to win it all
Totally overthought FJ till it came to me close to the end of the music.
These players must either be without retirement accounts or not pay attention to theirs, if they didn’t know the wearable term for the full rights to them.
Surprised no one knew the novelist from “The Hours.” That was a pretty darn good movie and won Nicole Kidman the Oscar.
The year the Mayflower landed is engraved in huge letters on Plymouth Rock. Christopher was a tad too late with his response after the others tanked it.
My friend Sharon’s appearance is supposedly on Tuesday Jan 2. She hinted on FB that there might be more than one, but wouldn’t say for sure. I’ll watch along with everyone else and find out.
Even people who live in group homes could have answered this Final correctly. My family has been trying to put me in a group home and I knew the Final immediately.