Final Jeopardy: Literature (2-1-23)

Here are some more clues from the 2/1/2023 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.

INVENTORS & INVENTIONS ($400) Britain’s Air Ministry ridiculed Frank Whittle’s idea for this type of engine in the 1920s, but by the 1950s no one was laughing

YOU “BREAK” ($400) Vanessa Burghardt in the 2022 film “Cha Cha Real Smooth” was described as this new star separating from the pack

MOUNTAINS ($1600) Beautiful Kirkjufell, or Church Mountain, is said to be the most photographed mountain in this country

The players got all the clues in OVERLAPS:

($400) Man’s best friend shelter where 650 British politicians represent their constituencies
($800) Spaghetti topper for carnivores that dances a pas de deux in a tutu
($1200) Toy on a string that includes a Swiss singing style fluctuating between high & low notes
($1600) U.S. automobile racing organization that now includes the body of water where Jamaica is found
($2000) The minimum amount of fissionable material to sustain a nuclear chain reaction in the Bay State

OVERLAPS ANSWERS: show

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

Sneak Peek clues — TV CHARACTER FIRST NAMES
($400) “30 Rock”: Unpredictable movie star Mr. Jordan
($800) “Mad Men”: Once naive but intrepid copywriter Ms. Olson
($1200) “Eastbound & Down”: Rocket-armed, mullet-haired Mr. Powers
($1600) “Grey’s Anatomy”: Dr. Grey, chief of surgery at long, long last
($2000) “Veep”: Vice President & then President Meyer

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show

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8 Responses

  1. Jason says:

    I got FJ. Pemberley gave it away, to me, irrespective of dates.

    I have to be honest – Jake got on my nerves. Besides the constant movement out of camera, it was the pumping of his arm, as if he was pulling an air horn, and clicking his tongue.

    Aaron seemed like a dilettante.

    • Albert says:

      I completely agree.

    • Evangeline says:

      Jake and Mattea ..not cute! Spare Me.

    • Howard says:

      On the Jeopardy FB page yesterday, a woman who said she works in that field of health insisted that Jake is neurodivergent, whatever that entails. “Swaying Ray” also has some type of affliction that causes him to rock.

  2. Jacob Ska says:

    Jake showed good sportsmanship in defeat today. Imo he was lucky to get as far as he did missing every fj clue each game…going 0/4. The runaway games helped him survive up until today when he didn’t have a runaway. His game intensity reminded me of Matt Jackson when he played.

    Patti was a good player today and is definitely worthy of a big congratulations. Congratulations Patti!

  3. Howard says:

    Good group today. The DD and that Greek Deities category as a whole really kept Patti alive.
    She obviously knows her literature. My late wife was a devotee of “P&P” in its video forms.
    All I could think of was “Wuthering Heights.”
    The only cinch clue they all missed was the one in the “break” category.
    Aaron’s last-seconds scrawl of “Odyssey” was purely a desperate stab.

    • VJ says:

      I love Wuthering Heights! What a devil Heathcliff was, except when he was portrayed by Laurence Olivier. Then he was a handsome devil. 😁

  4. Rick says:

    We were trying to figure out which novel published in 1811 matched the clues, and couldn’t come up with anything in FJ. Yes, the writers should kindly get the dates straight.