Final Jeopardy: On Vacation in Italy (2-22-24)
Here are some more clues from the 2/22/2024 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.
40 YEARS AGO: 1984 ($400) Bob Woodward’s “Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of” this comic offended some of its subject’s friends & family
($800) At the Winter Olympics, this American won gold with a 4.5 minute program that featured multiple triple jumps
ADVERTISING SLOGANS ($800) The name of this baked cracker brand completes its slogan “Want it. Need It…”
BRIT SPEAK ($600) It’s our equivalent of an off-license
HOW MANY TIMES? ($1200) Jimmy Connors & Novak Djokovic just before serving a big point: as many as 30 times or more
SHALL THE PEOPLE DANCE ($2000) English Morris dancing has a form named for this area of rolling hills & lovely towns like Tetbury & Tewkesbury
BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR ($800) The ruler with this title was forced by the Young Turk rebels to recall Parliament, which he suspended 30 years earlier
($1600) The czar had to sign off in 1906 when this nation, not Russia, became Europe’s first to grant women the right to vote
BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND ($2000) The Tehuantepecer is named for the gulf just south of the same-named isthmus, this country’s narrowest point
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: WORLD CAPITALS
($200) This Kenyan metropolis outdoes Denver by a few hundred feet in the Mile High capital city club
($400) It was the capital of Gran Colombia before it was the capital of (regular) Colombia
($600) This capital of Cambodia is at the junction of the Mekong and the Tonle Sap
($800) It’s not just the capital– it’s also one of Morocco’s 4 imperial cities
($1000) Climbing up on Medvednica Hill, I could see this end-of-the-alphabet city’s ight & pictured its 13th c. invSION by Mongols
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That was a brutally difficult Final. I tried looking out up on Wikipedia, and couldn’t even find it there, using the words in the clue given. I also guessed Pisa. I wonder if the writers are proud of clues like that, or if they review the responses.
I had to laugh at “Mary Lou Retton”!
lol Jason. I looked each of the Italian Monticellos listed by name in Wikipedia with “distanza di firenze”. You’ll get back a little map showing the distance from Florence. They are all over Italy.
There were just too many misleads in that whole thing, category and clue. Using “little mountain” would not have given it away, imo. Not everyone thinks of -cello when they think of Italian suffixes for “little”
On the plus side VJ, the FJ was at least gettable, and unlike a few of the FJs that I had seen in the past.
Idk how you figure it was “gettable”, Rick. So far, I haven’t seen anyone say they figured it out from the clue.
One person said he knew about it from his daughter. I saw a commenter on youtube say he lived in Florence for 2 years and had no idea what it was. Even websites that like to publish the final answer early in the morning got it wrong and they had plenty of time to look the answer up based on the clue.
I was hard-pressed to find a location myself, even after finding the answer out because the town isn’t on the map.
I thought that the clues alluded to Jefferson’s home (although granted the references to it were ambiguous.
VJ, why don’t you put the answer up early iin the morning?
@Mackie, we’ve had Spoiler Talk for 10 years but we always sent readers to the Jeopardy! website to see the clue before the show aired and we don’t reveal the correct response on there.
Where I am, the show airs at 11:30 a.m. and then we have the Early Spoiler post but only the scores before FJ! are shown. You have to open a spoiler for anything else you want to see.
It’s all because we like to guess🤣
All I could remember was my afternoon in Pisa 50+ years ago, and nothing else came to mind.
When you get players of this caliber, the DDs often make all the difference. The first two weren’t too tough, the last a bit tricky but not impossible. Of course, Jesse would have won had he nailed FJ.
Very surprised no one took a stab at the Vonnegut novel. His most famous one. The skater has been in the news plenty over the years, mostly for his bouts with cancer. I’ve watched probably a few thousand hours of tennis to know what Jimmy and Novak did and do.
I did above average in the Jeopardy game tonight, but the FJ was a tough one. Anyways, all that we could come up with in FJ was the city of Turin.
That is our third Thursday in a row where we have a triple stumper in the final thanks to that pesky geography clue.
Even the title of the category was a stinker 🤣🤣🤣
Congratulations to Deb for winning Champions Wildcard and earning the last spot in the Tournament of Champions. And now we have the complete field for the TOC. Deb will compete against Troy Meyer and Sean McShane on 3/6. The Tournament of Champions begins tomorrow and it’s gonna be exciting.