Final Jeopardy: Landmarks (12-5-22)

Here are some more clues from the 12/5/2022 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.

POINTING OUT DECIMALS ($1000) At Princeton, if you get straight C+es, this is your semester GPA & you might want to do a bit more studying

“OO”, BOOZE ($1000) This brand of British gin says every batch is made with “labour and patience”

ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS ($600) June Foray, voice of Rocky the Squirrel, helped create an award for animation; it was her husband who named them this

MYTH ($1600) In Egyptian mythology, Seth, the evil god of disorder, killed this brother, the god of the underworld

STARTS OR ENDS WITH X ($1600) 8-letter word meaning to paralyze someone with horror or amazement

($2000) Much in the news in recent years, this largest administrative unit of China is the homeland of the Uyghur people

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

Sneak Peek clues — STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES
($200) “The Big Pineapple”
($400) For its growing number of high-tech companies, “The Silicon Peach”
($600) “The Renaissance City” & “PVD”
($800) “The Live Music Capital of the World”
($1000) At the junction of 4 major interstates in the Midwest, “The Crossroads of America”

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show

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4 Responses

  1. Howard says:

    “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!” Even if you didn’t know the exact year it came down, FJ was pretty obvious.

  2. Rick says:

    Yeah, the clues were all more than obvious in FJ, but I somehow came up with Tiananmen Square. Well, as former President Kennedy once said: “Success has a hundred fathers, but failure is an orphan”.

  3. Lou says:

    Happy to see Cris and Steph getting the final todaay. Today is actually the 50th anniversary of that event that took place in 1989.

    • VJ says:

      I don’t know where you got that idea from, Lou, but 50 plus 1989 is 2039, and it’s only 2022 right now.