Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Americans (2-21-24)
Here are some more clues from the 2/21/2024 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.
FUN & GAMES ($1000) In this centuries-old game with a hyphenated name, you throw a knife at your opponent’s feet; what could go wrong?
PLACES TO VISIT ($1600) The Bab Agnaou is one of the gates in the wall around the Medina of this Moroccan city
ENDS IN “IR” ($2000) This word can refer to a pirate in the Mediterranean Sea from the 16th to 19th century
MR. STEVE MARTIN ($2000) After Steve asks Lily Tomlin why she thinks she’ll come back from the dead in this 1984 film, Lily replies, “Because I’m rich”
The players missed 2 clues in EXTREMELY RANDOM CALCULATIONS:
($400) Total degrees in a circle divided by justices on the U.S. Supreme Court
($800) Traditional number of Hercules’ labors times books in the Pentateuch
($1200) ML in Roman numerals minus Douglas Adams’ answer to “life, the universe and everything” 1,008
($1600) Number of U.S. states in 1958 divided by the number of our solar system’s planets after Pluto’s demotion
($2000) Forbes’ annual wealthiest Americans minus Fortune’s annual biggest U.S. companies by revenue
RANDOM CALCULATIONS ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — BOOZY
($200) When it comes to this potent potable, go for one labeled “100% blue agave”
($400) An in-escape-able song by Rupert Holmes wonders if you like these cocktails & getting caught in the rain
($600) This golfer has his name on the drink of iced tea & lemonade; spike it with vodka & you’ve got a John Daly
($800) Though quite sweet, the name of this almond-flavored liqueur means “little bitter”
($1000) Many a classic cocktail calls for a wee bit o’ this scotch whisky liqueur flavored with heather honey
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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They/them are plurals. Why do we have to be on board with this distortion and misuse of words?
You don’t have to be on board with it, Denise. You just have to not mock people who are on board with it. You know — to each his own.
It is not a misuse of words if that is how people request to be addressed. I’m sure Ken Jennings check with the staff on how contestants wish to be addressed on the show. Imo it shows respect.
Agreed. We need a gender neutral term that is SINGULAR. I have no issue whatsoever with gender neutral pronouns, but this use of the plural is confusing beyond belief. Even my son, who argues this point with me all the time, got completely lost during a conversation we were having. (“Who are you talking about, Mom?!” Exactly.)
What I can’t figure out is how people who refer to themselves as “I” and “me” can even ask other people to use plural pronouns. I asked someone why that is and the response I got was it’s because if they referred to themselves as “we” and “us”, people would think they’re crazy. I doubt if that’s why because if it was, people would think the request is crazy.
At the university we were advised by HR years ago in faculty meetings to address a student as “they” if that was how the student requested to be addressed. Bear in mind college students are adults. Some requested the gender neutrality term “they” in writing. Some colleagues argued that the term was not grammatically correct. The response from HR was “We are concerned with respecting the rights of the students. We’re also concerned about your bias. If you don’t want to respect the students find another career.” Complete silence fell over the room.
HR is concerned about their bias but not concerned over their facism forcing people to accept the new policy
Paloma means both dove and pigeon
I was shocked that Jesse missed the Galapagos DD. What else could it have been? He probably just overthought it.
And i disagreed with the Picasso DD. Paloma is pigeon, not dove.
Thanks. I don’t know much Spanish, but I knew his daughter was Paloma, and I assume they’d have had to accept that answer. But I just Googled “dove in Spanish,” and it came up paloma. My background is in French, and their word for dove is colombe.
I blanked out on Galapagos and also said Falklands.
I also said “Las Islas Malvinas” (that’s what Argentina calls the Falklands). That’s what else it could have been.
Had no clue on FJ, but Wyatt Earp came to mind quickly, so I stuck with it.
Utterly shocked that none of those smarties knew the alliterative Western novels author. The Martin-Tomlin movie was pretty popular, but probably too long ago for these youngsters to remember it.
Maybe someone here can explain something to me. Ken is very PC when it comes to pronouns. He refers to Mattea and others as “they,” and I get that. But when he called Deb “they” Monday night, I inferred that she was something other than a straight female. And tonight, during her interview, she gushed on and on about her boyfriend. Unimportant in the grand scheme of things, but it’s a head-scratcher. All I can come up with is that maybe she’s bisexual and prefers “they.” Anyway, Deb’s a strong player and deserved to move on.
You should probably ask Deb about that, Howard. Anyone else would just be guessing.
Sexuality and gender identity are different concepts. Nothing about Deb using they/them pronouns signifies anything about their sexuality.
I was happy that Deb was a little bit more “reined in”, and not so demonstrative. She did “risk it” when she sang the one response, as she said, what was it, “Happy I got it right”?
I got FJ kind of in an instant. VJ, another reason Doc Holliday couldn’t be there at the fight was he was dead! 1887.
I did above average in today’s game, but missed the FJ. Actually, all that I could come up with was Buffalo Bill, but I knew that was never going to wash. Anyways, who would have ever thought that an esteemed sheriff like the legendary Wyatt Earp was also a crooked gambler? As for the 1896 boxing match, I would have tended to give Wyatt Earp the benefit of the doubt.