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
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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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“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!” Even if you didn’t know the exact year it came down, FJ was pretty obvious.
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”.
Happy to see Cris and Steph getting the final todaay. Today is actually the 50th anniversary of that event that took place in 1989.
I don’t know where you got that idea from, Lou, but 50 plus 1989 is 2039, and it’s only 2022 right now.