Final Jeopardy: 2020s Television (12-5-23)
Here are some more clues from the 12/5/2023 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.
TO “L” WITH SCIENCE ($800) When you activate a light stick, the chemicals within react to produce this type of cold light
SPORTS STUFF ($200) This league adopted a rule in 2020 that prevented teams from manipulating the game clock via dead-ball fouls
ALSO A SUPERHERO ($800) If you’re driving & one of these pointing to the right lights up, turn right!
($1000) Nondescript name of the Volkswagen seen here (image)
FEEDBACK: SANDWICH ($1000) I’m glad we’ve gone from paper to wafers to cookies as the “bread” for this “sandwich”; I still like the old name, hokey pokey
ALMOST ASSASSINATED ($400) February 15, 1933 after making a speech in Miami
($1200) September 5, 1975 while greeting a crowd in Sacramento, California
THEY COME IN THREES ($1200) In 1882 Germany, Italy & Austria-Hungary formed this, renewing it periodically until World War I
FLAGS ($800) Seen here, the Washington Monument is encircled by this many flags
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — PURPLE PROSE & POETRY
($200) This song mentions “purple mountain majesties”
($400) “After thinking it over for some time”, this purple crayon-toting tot went for “a walk in the moonlight”
($600) Author who wrote that it angers God “if you walk by the color purple in a field…and don’t notice it”
($800) Milton wrote of this Roman god, “that first from out of the purple grape crush’d the sweet poison of misused wine”
($1000) This lord’s poem “Locksley Hall” tells of “pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I agree with JP. A person need not have seen the show to know the correct fj clue response. The category title alone narrowed the choice down to the 2020s. Then kick in a location in NYC. Only one conclusion imo. I’ve never seen this show at all, but, with its numerous nominations for Emmy awards, and other awards, I got a pretty good idea about the content of the show. I’ve never seen a lot of shows, streaming or otherwise, but being bombarded with promotions, advertising, and magazine covers about them at the checkout counters in grocery stores, etc., certainly make me aware of their content.
I too never saw “Only Murders” but probably should have known it. I think it was a pretty fair question. The first and last DDs were not too tough; knew the middle one only because it was the answer to a differently-worded clue in my 1987 episode.
Boy, did they botch those near-assassinations. The years alone (1912, 1933, 1975, and the 1962 Citroen) were almost-dead giveaways.
The dead-ball sports league was gettable, and why did no one even hazard a guess at the number of flags surrounding the Washington Monument? Come on.
I breezed the ‘Almost Assassinated’ category except for John Paul II, and was only surprised to see the contestants either making wild guesses or were simply stumped in that category. Actually, after some three bad guesses, the contestants quickly shifted onto another category.. In any case, I had no idea of the correct response for FJ as I don’t spend any time at all watching the newer TV shows.
It appeared to me they just didn’t pick up any presidential year references in that assassination attempts category. When Matt blew the first one with McKinley, I thought one of the other two would buzz right in with the right guy.
Two assassination attempts were made on the president who came after Nixon (who resigned in 1974). Both attempts in Sept. 1975 and both by women whose names began with S!
Yes, I also thought that one of the contestants would have surely chimed in regarding the 1912 assassination attempt. Actually, the wound wasn’t that severe due to the fact that the former president was carrying a steel eyeglass case and a 50 page speech pamphlet inside his jacket pocket. However, it was believed that the bullet wound could have contributed to his untimely death a few years later. As far as I can recall regarding the Miami clue, the assassin’s bullet missed its target, but mortally wounded the Chicago mayor (who was riding beside him in the presidential vehicle.
Well, sort of. Squeaky’s real name is Lynette as I recall.
True, Howard, they’ve had a bunch of clues on her and apparently, they’ll accept Squeaky Fromme, Lynette Fromme or just Fromme
I don’t like the Final. I consider the Final to be discriminatory against the poor, as there are people out there who cannot afford Hulu and other obscure forms of entertainment access.
Well you needn’t have seen the show to solve the clue. And I think any way of getting direct access to movies or TV probably costs at least as much as Hulu. I don’t think all film and TV entertainment should be off limits just because you have to pay to experience them firsthand.
It looked like someone got on Ken’s case for allowing the contestants too much time to change their answers. He shot them down very quickly a couples of times today.
That is why I like Ken. He is sooooo much nicer than Trebek.