Final Jeopardy: The Ancient World (12-8-20)

Here are 3 more triple stumpers from the 12/8/2020 Jeopardy! game:

LIVE ALBUMS ($2000) This British rocker (image) showed us the way and came alive with a double live album that was No. 1 for 10 weeks in 1976

A NAPOLEON COMPLEX ($400) Napoleon had intended the Madeleine to be a temple to his Grande Armée, but the monarchy made it into one of these in 1816

ENERGY ($2000) In a car engine, the large disc seen on the left, called this wheel, stores energy, and regulates rotation of the crankshaft

The players missed 2 clues (*) in WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME:
($400) Adjective meaning solitary & past tense verb meaning vanished
($800) Raven relative & 4-letter synonym for forehead
*($1200) Burial place & brush’s partner
*($1600) The portal one, for example, & a chain of amino acids
($2000) A boggy fuel & a menacing statement

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Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — ENTERTAINMENT:
($200) This superstar’s album “Lover” was the bestselling album in the U.S. in 2019
($400) What became this giant screen film innovation emerged at Expo 67 in Montreal with the film “Polar Life”
($600) “Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone” is the subtitle of a restoration of this 1990 film, now with a new beginning & ending
($800) Christian Bale & Matt Damon hit the track in this high-octane film about an effort to build a new kind of race car
($1000) Dating back to 1939, this DC Comics superhero (image) has an origin story involving an ancient Egyptian curse

ANSWERS: show

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6 Responses

  1. Mattie Couples says:

    Why didn’t John get penalized for adding an extra “A” to AARP?

  2. Debbie says:

    A apostery ‘ s is singular. He should not have money taken away. 12.8.20 show

  3. Kevin Cheng says:

    I think I am familized the last time the contestant got dinged for the exact same thing about adding an s in J.K Rowling was probably in 2015.

  4. Lou says:

    Well that first daily double didn’t work out for Cody but Brutus isn’t actually a philosopher. Overall, how did John miss out on a simple physics clue? He should have been careful not to add any extra consonants to a person’s name unless.it is needed. Hopefully Kristen can build up on her win.

    Tomorrow’s game will be preempted due to.a shot in the arm also known as the vivid vaccine

    • Linaf says:

      Lou, John’s a communications manager, not a scientist, so missing a physics question isn’t too wild a thing.
      As for Brutus, Final Jeopardy’s clue says nothing about the person being a philosopher. The only thing obvious there is that the person was a criminal (“got to propose his own sentence”), and Cody flailed and went with the most famous Ancient-era criminal he could think of, so Brutus.
      I guess Socrates should have been more careful about his request for free meals, though, since they definitely gave him his last drink for free…