Final Jeopardy: Name’s the Same (12-8-22)
Here are some more clues from the 12/8/2022 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.
“U” IN HISTORY ($800) This “Incident” resulted in the exchange of Rudolf Abel for Francis Gary Powers
MONKEY BUSINESS ($600) The most abundant primate of the Amazon region, this type of monkey bears the name of a common rodent of North America
MARK’S BROTHERS & SISTERS ($800) Music man Mark Ronson has sisters who are twins, fashion designer Charlotte & her
IN THE ROOM ($1600) This large upholstered couch that shares its name with the largest of the Quad Cities along the Iowa-Illinois border
COUNTRIES FROM WORDPLAY CATEGORIES ($1200) Rhyming pairs: Banjul & Lusaka are the capital cities of these 2
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Sneak Peek clues — RHYME TIME
($200) Not quite annually
($400) A really chill gentlemen
($600) A brand of lighter just for the fibers of a candle
($800) Webelo uncertainty
($1000) One who owes due to gambling
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This ex-New Yorker is hanging his head for not knowing FJ. But that Gulden brand is one I grew up with and love to this day.
Terrific game tonight, good players, but Sriram was quick and accurate down the stretch.
Perhaps older players might have known that old nickname for a couch, and the 1960 spying incident that caused an international uproar. It was well-dramatized maybe 5 years ago in the Tom Hanks movie, “Bridge of Spies.” Francis Gary Powers later became the helicopter reporter for KNBC in Los Angeles in the 70s, giving traffic reports. Studio anchor Jess Marlow always called him Frank although he was generally known as Gary. Powers died tragically in a crash while on the job.
I learned last night that Ron is a professor at Oberlin, and AZ is an alum. A friend of mine who’s pushing 70 got her bachelor’s degree in economics from Oberlin.
Well I was sure thrown by the island part, and so were the contestants in FJ.
Did anyone else find the final question to be kinda easy? I’m not trying to brag or sound smug but I thought it was pretty obvious.
Yes, all the predictions this morning were for 2 out of 3 or 3 out of 3 right
Happy to see Sriram win today after not getting final right. I think he could try to win a few more this week or next week
idk if this is going to be an issue but I would like to know when “close enough” started to apply to quotes.
WHAT A NOVEL CATEGORY! ($2000) He is described as “Prometheus who changed his mind”; now you say the first sentence of “Atlas Shrugged”
Not only is it asking you to quote from the book, the first sentence is itself a quote– “Who is John Galt?” Sriram leaves out the first name and Ken says he said the sentence “close enough”.
Also, when do we start applying “close enough” to leaving out or adding an “s” to responses?
VJ, I’m sure you and I have heard dozens of responses denied due to adding or leaving out an “s” in the response. Ken used a very unfortunate phrase – one open to personal interpretation – when he said “Close enough” and I hope it doesn’t happen again. I’m sure coming up with all the Jeopardy questions is a full time job but the producers should strive for questions that are factual and singular in nature. I dearly love Ken but I hope he holds contestant’s feet to the fire to obtain an accurate answer. I once almost lost a friend arguing whether or not a Joshua Tree cactus was a true “tree”.
I think there is some ambiguity here, as the clue is not well written. The fact that the clue starts “He is described…” means that “Who is Galt?” should be accepted, but they certainly do sound like they wanted the full opening quote in the latter half.
I think:
1. The clue should not have been written so ambiguously/poorly
2. Given that it was written ambiguously/poorly, “Who is Galt?” should have been accepted
3. Ken should not have said “close enough”, as it opens up the can of worms you describe
Thanks, Sam and JP.
I reread the question and the wording of the category and it appears the show was just looking for the name of the character, not the exact quote. If the player simply said “Galt” then Ken would have ruled him immediately correct and there never would have been any confusion.
I too was bothered at first but now I understand the intent of the question. The question was indeed worded poorly. Im surprised the cracker jack staff never realized that the wording could have two interpretations.
Yes, Albert, Ken should have just okayed Sriram’s response and moved on. But he suggested that “John” should have been included with the “close enough” remark. That’s what confused me.
I said aloud that that should not have been accepted. “Close enough”? WTH, Ken? The clue SPECIFICALLY says the first line in the novel. Even with other less clear parts, that, to me, is plainly black letter. Should not have been ruled correct, because it wasn’t.
There were two parts, but the second cleared it up. That’s how I see it.
For the second day in a row, we had another triple stumper in FJ! and for the third day in a row, we had a new champ. Are we going to close out the week as the fourth 1 day champ? We’ll have to find out tomorrow.