Final Jeopardy: Southern Politicians (2-13-24)
Here are some more clues from the 2/13/2024 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.
RHYMING PHRASES ($1000) A police helicopter providing surveillance is idiomatically one of these & doesn’t need to blink either
OH, THE PLACES YOU “CAN” GO! ($1000) This national monument in Arizona preserves hundreds of pre-Columbian cliff dwellings
DUCK SOUP ($1600) This presidential daughter had pet ducks that often waddled their way into the fountain on the White House South Lawn (image)
THERE’S A VACCINE FOR THAT ($400) Biothrax protects against this disease that’s transmitted to humans from farm animals
“RH” FACTOR ($000) These muscles of the upper back, major & minor, help stabilize the shoulder girdle & scapula
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Sneak Peek clues — IT HAPPENED IN CONGRESS
($200) In 1870 Congress censured Tennessee’s Roderick Butler for selling an appointment to this academy
($400) In 1789 Congress hotly debated “a day of public” this for the new Constitution; a November day was eventually chosen
($600) A 1958 Congressional act established this agency, making a giant leap possible 11 years later
($800) Congress first did this March 3, 1845 in the waning hours of John Tyler’s presidency, by votes of 41-1 & 127-30
($1000) After the close Nixon-Humphrey race, the House passed a resolution to abolish this system, 338-70, but the Senate didn’t
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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My only comment: as prior champions, Nicole getting her phrasing wrong, irrespective of her wrong answer, just bugs me. That’s an amateur move.
Terrific two-way battle tonight. I found FJ easy, IF you knew his nickname and the reference to royalty. Thought I nailed the Whittier quote, then learned I had the first word wrong.
“Biothrax” clue was embarrassingly easy. And the upper back muscles with “rh” in the name were gettable.
The Whittier quote comes from “Maud Muller” a poem about 2 people looking back at a chance meeting, thinking their lives would have been happier if they married each other.
In response, Bret Harte wrote Mrs. Judge Jenkins, a parody poem that concludes those aren’t the saddest words:
“More sad are these we daily see:
It is, but hadn’t ought to be.”
On the vaccine clue, it was only $400 so I thought one of them might take a swing at it even if not completely sure, but sometimes it seems they don’t think it’s worth taking a chance at the end of the Double Jeopardy round
Interesting, thanks. I thought the first word was “what,” because that begins a phrase I sometimes think about.
I did very well in tonight’s Jeopardy game, the the FJ was a shoo-in.
What an intense battle between Long and Kat. 52,801 is the biggest total we seen this season.