Final Jeopardy: National Parks (2-17-23)
Here are some more clues from the 2/17/2023 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.
AROUND AMERICA ($600) A cliff-dwelling national monument named for this people can be found near Tonalea, Arizona
STAY COOL ($1000) Who knew gangsters could thrive in Hollywood? “Be Cool” was this novelist’s follow-up to “Get Shorty”
THE CHAMPION’S LEAGUE ($1000) Bobby Thomson, 1951
TIME TO GO BIG ($2000) Bearing a name from Tingit, this spruce species of the Pacific Northwest can be 200 feet tall & 15 feet in diameter
SOMETIMES A “LITTLE” IS ENOUGH ($800) How did junior know grandpa was arrested? Maybe this idiom about what kids overhear
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — IN THE NATION’S CONSTITUTION
($200) Its preamble includes the “Chairman” who “in 1949, overthrew the rule of… bureaucratic capitalism”
($400) “On its land, Moses grew up, the light of God appeared, and the message descended on Mount Sinai”
($600) About its flag: “Occupying one third of the white stripe is a green cedar tree with its top touching the upper red stripe”
($800) “The capital of” this country “shall be Sarajevo” & judges have to retire at age 70
($1000) It’s territories “shall comprise… the provinces of Balochistan, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I can see Jason’s point about picking up on the word “jaundice” from “Jaune.” A medical person, which I think Jason is, would zero in on this. I’m not a medical doctor and it was an afterthought for me. Also, several people brought the word up on the Internet in connection with the “Pierre Jaune.” I thought Laura would be the one solve because she was a medical doctor but I was wrong.
On the French spin of “Pierre” regarding rock and/or stone I looked at the French Bible translation on BibleGateway dot.com that VJ posted here and I don’t think people could make that connection though.
That’s a bigger giant leap imo than associating “Jaune” with “jaundice” especially after listening over and over to Ken’s pronunciation of that last name on my DVR of the show.
Knowing a little bit about intelligence, smart people can intuit an answer from lesser information. This I mention because of the two non responses in FJ. “Jaune” one could get, even not speaking French, by thinking of “jaundice”, and, “national park” and “yellow” – not a tough get, by any means.
Will, I wonder if he was ringing in first, then trying to respond. More than once, they were downright easy clues that he missed.
If Stephen had more robust competitors, I wonder if there might have been more challenge.
I can’t see why anyone with 30 seconds to figure this clue out would zero in on “jaune” and immediately connect it to “jaundice”. Just sayin’. Yellow is my favorite color. I associate it with a lot of things but would never come up with “jaundice” unless the category had to do with medicine or illness.
Yellowstone is probably the first national park most people think of so maybe they thought of it when they saw the category but could not connect it when they saw the clue. Maybe they were focusing on French trappers in the northeast and couldn’t come up with anything before time ran out.
P.S. I also don’t think many people could come up with “Pierre -> Peter -> rock -> stone -> Yellowstone” in 30 seconds but just for the “hell” of it, here are the biblical verses in French and English (emphasis added).
Matthew 16:18 KJV: And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Louis Segond: Et moi, je te dis que tu es Pierre, et que sur cette pierre je bâtirai mon Église, et que les portes du séjour des morts ne prévaudront point contre elle.
Yikes! I didn’t write with aspirations for such a strident response! I was just saying about brain functions. Don’t know how Will got it. Maybe he’ll explain in some Twitter post!
Sorry, Jason, if it sounds that way. I didn’t mean my remarks in a strident way.
I have noticed that accountants generally do not perform well on Jeopardy. I think most lack a good arts & letters background.
I unfortunately dozed off a couple times, so was it Stephen who had the lead when Will hit the first DD? (The text mentions Will twice.)
Stayed awake long enough to know the cookbook author, “Get Shorty” author, Bobby Thomson (“The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!”), and the spruce (Bigfoot and I both inhabit the PNW). 10 years of French over 50 years ago made FJ a cinch.
Stephen had the lead, Howard
Here’s a YouTube that teaches you how to say the colors in six Romance languages
I guessed Acadia on the final. I thought this week had some super hard finals.
Laura is from Towson, not Townson.
Actually, we’ll be seeing Stephen again on March 10th because the last day of the High School Reunion Tournament will be on March 9th.
Thanks, Kevin. I fixed that. I guess it’s wishful thinking on my part. I truly wish they would go back to the 2-week tournament format.
I just realized that the FJ! clue is in a boîte jaune 🤣 Très cool !
VJ, Too funny. 😂 Did you see where FF got a nice shout out on J! Board today? Told you I think contestants study FF. Your website pulls things together so well. 👏
Thanks for letting me know, Jacob. Many thanks to Myron.