Final Jeopardy: Brand Names (12-5-24)
Here are some more clues from the 12/5/2024 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.
THE MIDDLE AGES ($1000) This battle in 1485, where Henry Tudor was a victor, is considered the end of the English Middle Ages
4-WORD PHRASES ($200) Cursing someone after inflicting bodily harm is literally piling on this way
NONFICTION ($2000) “Anyone Can Grow Orchids” is a chapter of this book by Susan Orlean
CROSSWORD CLUES “O” ($800) It means family in Hawaiian (5 letters)
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($200) Actually about Idi Amin: “The Last King of ____”
($400) A documentary about gun violence: “Bowling For ____”
($600) Where monsters got to get away from it all: “Hotel ____”
($800) A 2006 sequel: “The Fast and the Furious: ____ Drift”
($1000) What a cast–Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart & Kate Hepburn: “The ____ Story”
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Killer final, and I could swear Ken pronounced it “crans.”
I remember Jack Reynolds and his sharp-toothed nickname well.
Poor Lisa repeated Dave’s wrong answer, and also misread a later clue that gave one of the guys the chance to get it.
Thought someone would know the Susan Orlean novel. Part of its title was right in the clue, unusually.
I thought the Hawaiian family clue should have been for $2K, not $800, because the $2K one was much easier. Was that “oligarchy”?
Daring DD wagers by Dave. That 3rd DD was quite easy.
Ken did say “crans”, Howard. I had to turn the cc on to make sure it meant crayons. 🤣
I sure thought that Ken did say “Crayola crayons” VJ. I mean, it was perfectly clear to me at the time. Perhaps the error could be attributed to the telecasts in some areas. In the Grand Rapids, Michigan area for instance (as you might recall), there are typically several brief interruptions during the game. This all seemed to be due to the poor telecasts by the WKZO TV station.
What error, Rick? You seem to be in the minority if you heard Ken say cray-ons (2 syllables). Apparently, “crans” (1 syllable) is a way of saying crayons in the Midwest. Lots of people who never heard it said that way have commented about it on X and elsewhere.
I never heard crayon pronounced as one syllable either. Now I wonder how Ken says hither, thither and yon.
First, it was the contestant killing time yesterday. Today, it was two players with no charisma. And, even, one of them repeating the same wrong response. Ugh.
I had no clue as to FJ. 2/3 on DD.
It was another great game, and we have a new champion. Congratulations Dave! As for FJ, I could only come up with Dove soap, but oh well.. Regarding the Crayola crayons, I was never an admirer of their scent.
Wow that final was very hard, I didn’t even have a guess . Play-Doh was a good one though.
With that, we got a losing week in the final as we got our third triple stumper this week.
Mental Floss has a list of scent trademark owners but it only goes up to 2015, and the first one I checked had been cancelled. I found out about the Play-Doh scent before I saw the game and I wondered if Stevie knew Play-Doh has a trademarked scent or guessed it based off “clay”.
I wonder if Stevie would have made the right guess if the clue had the description Crayola used in their Canadian trademark application: “A unique scent of a pungent, aldehydic fragrance combined with the faint scent of a hydrocarbon wax and an earthy clay.”
Wax is a better hint than clay, imo.
You’re right, VJ. That wording of the clue would have been much more helpful in directing the players to the correct response