Final Jeopardy: Explorers (12-30-21)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 12/30/2021 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.
PANTS ($1000) A type of tweed owes its name to the Scottish isles called Lewis & this
GLOBAL LIT ($1200) Miles Franklin’s sequel to “My Brilliant Career”, called “My Career Goes Bung”, is set among the literati of this big city
THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN… ($1600) to manage the campaign of a major party presidential nominee, was this woman seen here (image)
VJ’s favorite category today: FEMALE NAME WORDS
($400) A traditional tune sung around the end of December
($800) A disk of meat soon to become a hamburger
($1200) As a verb, this first name of Tony Stark’s lady love means to ask a rapid series of questions
($1600) The pot of money to be won in a card game
($2000) Grand Harbour, a vast one of these in Malta, will take good care of your yacht
ANSWERS: show
Last 4 clues related to today’s Final Jeopardy! clue:
10-19-2021 ANNUS HORRIBILIS (Daily Double: $2,200) In the space of a few weeks in 1912, Robert Falcon Scott’s trek to this landmark ended in death, then Titanic sailed into history
02-28-2020 EXPLORERS ($4000) When Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole in 1912, he found this country’s flag left 5 weeks earlier by Amundsen
06-14-2018 POLAR EXPLORATION ($2000) Clue Crew Sarah: “Here is Amundsen’s route to and from the South Pole, & here is the 1911-1912 route from Cape Evans led by this man–on the return trip, he met his end just 11 miles from shelter”
09-30-2016 HISTORY AS THEATER ($160) Ted Tally’s play “Terra Nova” is based on journals & letters found on the frozen body of this Antarctic explorer
Sneak Peek clues — DRAWING
($200) He drew the ideal figure of a human in his “Vitruvian Man”
($400) Here’s an 1882 drawing submitted for one of his many patents
($600) “Quick sketches, hilarious guesses”, says this board game that’s been around since the 1980s
($800) William MacGillivray helped write “Ornithological Biography”, the text that went along with this man’s drawings
($1000) One image of how Santa looks with a jolly smile & a beard, dates back to some 1860s drawings by this political cartoonist
ANSWERS: show
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I wouldn’t know about that; it sounds kind of fishy to me. Yeah sure, a 250 million year old extinct plant fossil that Captain Scott left behind. I mean, the mainstream media sure goes to great lengths in heaping the praises on Captain Robert Scott while a clearly more experienced explorer such as Roald Amundsen typically receives little mention. Okay, I ranted enough. Anyways, Roald Amundsen was my choice.
Keep it going, Amy.
Polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott is so associated with the year 1912 I assumed it must be him despite not knowing about this discovery of his till now. The Antarctic continent has fascinated me since boyhood (as it has ace teen eco champion Greta Thunberg) because of its wonderful status as an international zone of science, peace, and nature. I even received permission to do my 4th grade world geography half-year project on Antarctica, creating a plaster of Paris white map on a piece of plywood, with science stations marked with little flags on sticks. Each of us students in class were to pick a country but I obtained permission from my teacher Mrs. Hisey to instead focus on Antarctica. I also read “Alone: by Richard E. Byrd, among other polar books. In college, I was able to write about Antarctica for the UMCP student daily The Diamondback and for The Sun of Baltimore. Always great to learn/reinforce knowledge via TV’S JEOPARDY! as with FJ today. Look forward to watching in one hour!
Leake? What kind of name is that? Sarah was pretty good on the daily doubles today and made a good challenge for Amy today.
There are people with the surname Leake. That being said, I’m pretty sure Nate was going for Louis Leakey. I don’t know if he ran out of time or he thought the surname was spelled that way but Ken (and my closed caption) said Leakey).