Final Jeopardy: Words from World War I (2-13-23)
Here are some more clues from the 2/13/2023 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.
LAWYER BILLBOARDS ($2000) I Wrote The Book On English Law (My Famous “Commentaries”) & I Can Help You!
BOTANY ($800) Gymnosperms bear seeds in cones; these, constituting most of the world’s green plants, have flowers
($2000) in a 1771 experiment this British scientist discovered that plants give off what turned out to be oxygen
BOB DYLAN LYRICS ($400) “Hey”, this guy, “play a song for me, I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to”
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Sneak Peek clues — TV CATCHPHRASES
($200) This Starfleet captain: “Make it so”
($400) Barney on this sitcom: It’s gonna be legendary!”
($600) This sitcom character: “How you doin’?
($800) This drama’s Coach Taylor: “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose”
($1000) Mork: This double-talk Orkan signoff
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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What a great competition tonight! There were a few clues headed for Stumperville until someone rang in late and nailed them. I thought someone for sure would know that “Mister” Dylan clue, and the poet’s son.
Took me just seconds to figure out FJ, and I thought they’d all get it.
I have to wonder if they intentionally keep players from the same city/area separated. Supposedly each episode’s contestants are chosen at random. But Portlander Mira came on just after Matthew Marcus lost, and tomorrow another Portlander will be on now that Mira is off.
Why would a cistern or reservoir be in any connected to the rudimentary tank that was used during WWI? I mean, those clues threw me way off. Actually, based on those clues, I came up with a simple dam.
Rick, I think if that meeting was held nowadays, they might google synonyms for the words they were considering. The synonyms for “reservoir” include all the other words mentioned (container, cistern, tank).
Seems to me there was a copy of Roget’s Thesaurus at that meeting!
Well I supposed that I would have never equated cistern or reservoir with that antiquated contraption which they called a tank back in that era. Anyways, tomorrow is another day.
A definition of cistern is a tank for holding water. I thought it was a synonym of septic tank, which is what led me to the answer.
Pound is a unit of force. In the English system slug is the unit of mass
I was going to say that a pedant might point out that a “pound’ is a unit of weight, not mass. But it looks like “pound” is also used as a unit of mass.