Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Novels (12-4-23)
Here are some more clues from the 12/4/2023 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.
BRITISH BANDS ($800) Bananarama had a hit with this song, appropriately enough, in the mean, hot days of August 1984
I THINK WE LEFT SOMEONE OUT ($1000) The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse are Conquest, War, Famine &…
HIS ‘DO ($1000) In the lost Leonardo work “Salvator Mundi”, Jesus has the long, spiraling curls called these
MATH ($800) A sexagesimal system is based on this number
($2000) Calculated as the ratio of s to r, this measure of an angle is similar to the word that r stands for
A BIRD IN THE HAND ($1600) On its leg, the bird is undergoing this zoological process, also called ringing
2 IN THE BUSH ($400) The 2 Presidents Bush were both graduates of Yale University, attending in these 2 decades
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — GIVE THE “DEVIL”
($200) Head to a Wyoming national monument for a close encounter with this monolith
($400) 3-word hyphenated term for an “attitude” with a tendency to take risks
($600) Ecclesiastical changes in 1983 eliminated the job of this adversarial examiner first appointed in 1587
($800) To make these, mash up the yolks with seasonings & return them to the white part
($1000) Jabez Stone enlists the aid of a statesman to help save his soul in this story by Stephen Vincent Benet
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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After two tough boards that they handled pretty decently, the final was laughably easy. A lot of stumpers were difficult; but I thought the Bush decades, the sexagesimal number, and the bird process were gettable.
I guess I can reveal this now. My friend Sharon, who narrowly lost in the final episode last season, is taping tomorrow on a 2nd chance callback.
No idea yet of broadcast date.
The 3rd daily double was so close. Kristen got the response incorrect because she just guessed the bird’s name, which needed the occupation. It is a falcon, but the response is unacceptable.
It was a fun game with the FJ being all too obvious.
The question of Banarama’s number one hit was Venus, not cruel summer
@Christine, the clue did not refer to Banarama’s number one hit, it referred to their August (summer) 1984 hit. Also, Venus came out in ’86
The recent Finals have been waaaaaay tooooo easy.