Final Jeopardy: Europe (12-6-19)
Here are more 3 triple stumpers from the 12/6/19 Jeopardy! game:
BACK IN THE 20TH CENTURY ($1200) On Dec. 3, 1973 Pioneer 10 was within 81,000 miles of its cloud tops & would find this planet to be mostly liquid
WOMEN! ($1600) The Sultan of this Middle East country is assuredly proud of his all-female marching band
OLD BOOKS ($400) The Domesday Book, a record of the value & ownership of land in 11th century England, was compiled by order of this king
The players got all these clues in IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE, except the first one chosen. Alex did say that “Even though it starts with an “R”, it’s not Rocket Science”, but he didn’t make it clear that “Science” would be part of the right response.
($400) It’s the study of swatting implements used by Federer & Nadal et al.
($800) It’s the study of toothed hand tools that permit rotation in only one direction
*($1200) It’s investigation into a bone-softening disease caused by vitamin D deficiency
($1600) It’s chemistry or physics at a New Brunswick, New Jersey school founded in 1766
($2000) It’s learning acquired at a New York City correctional facility on an East River island
ANSWERS: show
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — REMEMBER THE “L_M_O”
($200) To do it, bend backward & pass under a horizontal bar
($400) Glowing like some watch dials
($600) Krystal Koach built custom ones
($800) “Everybody’s doing” this, the action of moving from one place to another
($1000) In a musical work, it’s a theme associated with a particular person or situation
ANSWERS: show
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I missed the show, so I appreciate this excellent recap on such days.
If Katie had $400, how did she wager $3K on the first DD?
I’m somewhat surprised that only one player surmised that Grace Kelly became Princess Grace of Monaco. Perhaps my advanced age made it easier for me.
@Howard, my numbers were off there — she had $4,000 and Jennifer’s score was actually $10,600 at that point. Thanks for the heads up. It’s fixed now.
Well a win is a win. Even if Jennifer didn’t get this, I still think she has a shot at the 100K. This is our fourth lady with a big 90K win since Emma Boettcher. Although I commend Randy on getting final right, he couldn’t get much rhythm going. Do you think we might see Jennifer break this three game curse VJ?
Lou, I really don’t think much about how many games the players will win. As we saw yesterday, it depends on who Jennifer has to contend with whether she will win her 4th game, right?
I was kinda rushing today because I had to go out for a little while but I just noticed that the FJ clue (as shown on the screen in the game) did not have quotes around the word royalty, whereas on Jeopardy’s Clue of the Day page, it was written as one whole quote, so I fixed that.
When I saw the clue this morning, I just thought of Princess Grace, the first movie star royal that would come to my mind and I stopped right there. In retrospect, I could see how the the clue might point to other countries, particularly after klm pointed out that barbarians might lead one to think of Conan.
LINK: more clues from the game