Final Jeopardy: Art & Science (2-14-23)
Here are some more clues from the 2/14/2023 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.
TV SHOW TITLES IN SPANISH ($400) La casa de entierro, it’s the kind of establishment where “A dos metros bajo tierra” took place
($800) “Belleza y poder”, or “Beauty & Power”, was what became of this fashion-set daytime soap
YE OLDE BRITISH MONEY ($800) The pound was divided into 20 of these, colloquially called bob
($1200) You’ll find R-E-I-G-N in this word for a gold one-pound coin depicting one who reigned
PHRASE CONNECTORS ($1600) Feet of ____ pigeon
($2000) The time is out of ____ venture
BORN TO RUN ($800) On his third try in 1981, François Mitterrand became the first French president representing this quite gauche party
THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD ($400) Maybe the ghost hangs around the cells of this state’s penitentiary in McAlester, where Tom did time
($1200) Looking at a Hudson Super Six, named for its six of these, feel the presence of the Joads who converted one into a truck & piled in
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Sneak Peek clues — ANAGRAMMED COLLEGE SUBJECTS
($200) Design for living (& working): REACT THRU ICE
($400) A business class: KEG ARM TIN
($600) Sometimes abnormal: SHY COPY LOG
($800) Biofunction junction: OILY HOG SPY
($1000) What are stars made of? COSY HARPISTS
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I’d like to know why Blaine’s response of “what are pistons” wasn’t accepted after the fact before Final Jeopardy. What gasoline engine has more or fewer pistons than cylinders?
@Jere, I honestly don’t know although I wondered the same thing when I went to look it up. This is what the clue said: “Looking at a Hudson Super Six, named for its six of these, feel the presence of the Joads who converted one into a truck & piled in” so I just assumed it was named for the cylinders
Here’s a page I found with the specifications for the Hudson Super Six — it doesn’t say anything about pistons
Actually, I guess it was Laurin who came up with pistons. The engines with six combustion chambers are generally referred to as “six-cylinders” but it follows that the number of pistons will always match that, just from the standard design of gasoline engines. It certainly wasn’t wrong, even though it wasn’t the expected response.
How does Blaine not bet EVERYTHING when he knows that Kendra will bet either $0 or $1? It just doesn’t make any sense. How do these people even get on the show in the first place?
You know, I have never understood why anyone would get so uptight over a Jeopardy! bet, and to the point where you’d ask something like your last question. For one thing, I doubt if anyone asks them if they studied wagering strategy when they audition. For another, it’s their game to win or lose. Whether it be because they didn’t know FJ or because they made a bad bet, it doesn’t cost the viewer a nickel.
Interesting how Kendra played for the possible tie. In the pre-tiebreaker era, that was a good way to go, because tied players came back the next day. A little odd her opponent didn’t bet it all.
Lots of answerable stumpers: Tom Joad’s state; feet of () pigeon; Mitterand’s gauche party; the Hudson’s six; 1/20th of a pound. And only one name from 1778 came to mind as the captain of a US ship.
As usual, I’m in agreement with you, Howard. I, too, found Kendra’s wager quizzical, just like Blaine’s wager. Unusually, I got most of the stumpers, but, at the same time, they weren’t especially difficult. I mean, Ken even said in the clue that the word ended with -reign!
So, the champ got away with one, and good on her for it! I got FJ wrong – I said Venus! Wait, Polaris? Dude, really?
Hmmmm………..I forgot that the ESA had sent such a space probe on a rendezvous mission with Halley’s Comet back in 1986. Anyways, I do remember that the comet was lackluster at the time, and certainly no where near the phenomenen that it was in 1910.