Final Jeopardy: 1970s Movies (12-9-22)
Here are some more clues from the 12/9/2022 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.
SONG TITLE TITLES ($400) A 1996 Jay-Z single: “Dead ____”
($1000) In “King Lear” a bloodthirsty Regan demands that this man be hanged while Goneril screams, “Pluck out his eyes”
SCIENCE! ($800) The size of a fist, this organ behind your left ribs fights invading germs in your blood by producing lymphocytes
HISTORY ($800) The unanimous election of Martin V in 1417 led to the end of the reign of these alternate religious rulers
($1200) After Robert E. Lee told him to reorganize his men after an attack at Gettysburg, he replied, “General, I have no division”
($1600) To decide important matters of faith, in 325 A.D. this emperor called the Council of Nicaea
RUSSIAN WRITERS ($2000) His 1995 autobiography “Invisible Allies” described his last years in the Soviet Union before he got deported
(image) “P”OTPOURRI ($1200) Here’s a depiction of this French-named commedia dell’arte character
COMPANY NAME ORIGINS ($1600) The name of this tech company is a shortening of the metropolis where it was founded by 2 Stanford computer scientists in 1984
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Sneak Peek clues — PLACES NAMED FOR PEOPLE
($200) This North Carolina capital was named in honor of a noted explorer in 1792
($400) Named for Mahatma, Gandhinagar is home to 300,000 & the capital of Gujarat State in this country
($600) It didn’t work out for this king with the American Revolution, but they named a town & nearby peak for him in South Africa
($800) In 1954 a New Jersey township voted to reject “Nixon” & renamed itself after this inventor
($1000) Shahr means “city” & after 1979’s Iranian Revolution, a place was redubbed this last name “shahr” to honor the new leader
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Did anybody catch Ken’s joke on himself about not knowing H&R Block? That was the missed answer that ended his streak as a player. But speaking of being wrong, he sure mangled the pronunciation of Vladimir Nabokov’s name (maybe he’s listened to too much Sting). And while I’m at it, earlier in the week he got a little mixed up on just what a “Craftsman” is when discussing houses with a contestant during the break. The player was talking about a Sears Catalog house, and Ken ended with a comment about “lots of Craftsman houses.” That’s a common mistake: Sears makes Craftsman tools, but a Craftsman house is the architectural style popular in the early part of the 20th century.
[Full disclosure (“Slumdog Millionaire” edition): I grew up in a Craftsman bungalow and now live in a Cape Cod-style house from the Sears Catalog. And I went to Switzerland to visit Nabokov at his apartment in the Montreux Palace Hotel just before he died (a colleague at the time said that’s probably what killed him).]
Ken’s H&R Block joke was pretty funny, Otto. Your colleague’s comment about your visit with Nabokov was very funny.
Sometimes I notice when Ken mispronounces something, although I did not know the proper pronunciation for Nabokov puts the stress on the “bo” syllable until you brought it up. Mainly, I wince when Ken copies an Alex Trebek expression like when he said “hello” at Matthew’s bet in this game.
All those stumpers were tough, but someone should have known Samson’s opponents’ name.
I probably saw that Python movie decades ago, but don’t recall a thing about it. I knew it was wrong, but “Young Frankenstein” was the best I could come up with.
I agree on the Delilah clue, Howard. My my my! 🤣 The Soviet exile stumper was even more shocking to me.
Let us hope we get another streaker soon next week. Happy to see Matt winning today and congrats to ellen getting this final right
So this week we started out with a superchamp Cris Pannullo winning his 21st game. For the rest of the week we had a new champ after Cris is defeated. Will we get to see the recent trend of one day champion continue or will we have our first multi-day champ? We’ll find out next week.
It is amazing to me that the people who defeat super champs go on to lose so quickly after their upset wins. Even Emma who beat holzhauer could only win a total of 3 games. The woman who beat jennings lost the very next game. Is there a philosophical or psychology term for a thing like that? Please don’t write “sol” 😄😄😊.
I don’t know about anyone else, but imo, “beating” a superchamp does not necessarily mean “outplayed”. Despite a few bad breaks, like losing $6,600 on the 8th clue in the second round, Cris Pannullo still finished in the lead in his last game. He lost the game because he didn’t know FJ!
Then there are players who beat superchamps who win more than a few games, like Eric Ahasic. He won 6 games after beating Ryan Long. Jonathan Fisher beat Matt Amodio AND achieved superchamp status when he won 11 games.
Albert, I call it luck. If it wasn’t luck they would win the next game they play. 😊