Final Jeopardy: Writers for Children (2-2-21)
Here are 6 more triple stumpers from the 2/2/2021 Jeopardy! game:
CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY ($1000) The wavy pattern in the metal of the knife indicates that it is made of steel named for this Mideast capital
“A” IS FOR ASTRONOMICAL ($1200) Absolute magnitude measures a celestial object’s true brightness; this other magnitude is its brightness as seen from Earth
OLD NEWSPAPERS ($1200) The name of this 19th century William Lloyd Garrison abolitionist newspaper reminds us of Simon Bolivar
($2000) Begun in 1764, this Harford Connecticut Journal is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the USA
Sneak Peek clues — RHYME TIME (3 triple stumpers):
($400) a verdant chromosome part
($800) the location for a 12-round match
($1200) jargon for the “parlor” game in which players mark off numbers on a card
($1600) temperamental & capricious coinage metal
($2000) a priory for a bivalve
ANSWERS: show
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We’ve finally got a Tuesday with a player getting no wrong answers in the whole game
I feel bad for Myrlin. She played a pretty strong game but the FJ was her undoing.
She was strong and knew a lot. I thought at one point she would win and be a multi-game winner. Oh, well. The vagaries of the game get good players often.
Thanks for sharing the article with the pronunciation of other authors’ names. There were a couple names I was unfamiliar with, but of those I recognized, my assumed pronunciation was incorrect about 75% of the time.
You’re welcome, JP. I found out that I’ve been saying Nabokov wrong like forever and if I’ve ever heard anyone say it correctly (J! players included), I didn’t notice. Today, of course, it is said correctly (@ 0.29) in the first YouTube I came across
I quizzed my Amazon Echo (AKA Alexa) on the pronunciation of those authors and the results were not very good.
Not surprised. Alexa can’t even say bonjour right. 🤣🤣🤣
I looked up a French interview with Nabokov and found (as expected) that the interviewer put the emphasis on the last syllable
I followed that up with playing the J6! clues. When it came to the maker of the Birkin bag, it looks like they had trouble rendering the accented ‘e’. It showed in the app as “WHAT IS HERMèS”, and the response was pronounced as “What is Herma diaersesis ess”.
And Myrlin’s last name just so happened to be Hermes, what a coincidence, eh, VJ?
yes, Rhonda, lol ! It was cool how she had her name embroidered on her shirt. No one will misspell it when she’s wearing that!
I liked her shirt, too, VJ. She was a great contestant, I wish she had won the game, nothing against Steve, though..
Same she reminded me of this contestant I liked on that cooking show Chopped, she played really well, wish she won.
Those daily doubles weren’t nice to Henry today. Overall I was hoping he and myrlin would know Dr Seuss. Furthermore green eggs and Ham, Horton hears a who, and cat in the hat are famous books by him. Congrats to Steve on his second win. Was myrlin thinking of Frank Cotrell Boyce and his book sputnik’s guide to life on earth VJ? Or was it James Boyce?
I assumed she meant Frank Cotrell Boyce, Lou. I don’t know why anyone would need to be told that Boyce rhymes with rejoice though.