Final Jeopardy: French Authors (2-23-24)
Here are some more clues from the 2/23/2024 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.
1960s FICTION ($800) “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: an Introduction” in 1963 was his last book-length work; he died in 2010
($1000) This British expat in southern California wrote openly of gay subject matter in “A Single Man”
TV COMEDY ($800) Let’s bring the Payne! Allen Payne played C.J. Payne on some 300 episodes of this creator’s “House of Payne”
($1000) Jack & Chrissy are gone, but “Three’s Company” lives as the nation’s partygoers dress up like this character
SLEEP-POURRI ($800) It’s the original title of the work (image) seen here by Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla
ELECTION LINGO ($1000) Candidates for local posts like school board president are often elected without a ballot by this, from the Latin for “shout”
TRIPLE RHYME TIME ($800) The horrid odor coming from the Parisian’s ditch show
POP CULTURE DRAGONS ($1600) In a series of books by Cressida Cowell, this son of Stoick the Vast can speak Dragonese & learns to train a dragon (Note: just his first name was okay)
JUDGES ($1600) Bertha Wilson, Canada’s Sandra Day O’Connor, allowed this syndrome as a defense of Angelique Lavallee, who killed “Rooster” Rust
($2000) Edward Coke made the King of England mad by ruling His Majesty cannot judge; you might know from Ed’s getup, it was this king
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 2020s & 1920s SLANG
($400) This word used in the 1920s for cash also means a foul in billiards where the cue ball is pocketed
($800) This shortened word precedes “check” in a term used on social media for reviewing one’s attire before hitting the town
($1200) Oxford’s Word of the Year for 2023, it’s what someone has if they spit fire game to the Hunks or the Honeys
($1600) Part of an animal is in this 1920s word for a dancer, someone ungulating & undulating to that hot jazz
($2000) Showing your significant other’s hands but not face on the IG is known as this 2-word term, like a preview for a new product
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I would have been horrible at this category!
How much money did the 2 losers tonight get to go home with?
@Helen, both 2nd and 3rd place get $5K in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, 2nd and 3rd get $10K.
Emily is one tough opponent. Too bad for my fellow hometown guy that he didn’t have enough to beat her.
Last 2 DDs and FJ all tough. I thought I knew French authors pretty well, too.
I have a very close college friend who’s from the Buckman Tavern town, but I sure didn’t know it. I’ll give them a pass for not knowing the Shirley Jones group or the “Three’s Company” character, but both were hugely popular in my time. Very disappointed that none knew the reclusive author of “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters” or the “House of Payne” person.
@Howard, here’s a link to the hilarious part in “The Music Man” where Chaucer, Rabelais and Balzac are named as authors in Marian the Librarian’s scandalous inheritance.
Thanks, I’ll look at it in a little bit. I saw the movie when it was new. In Oct ’22, I saw the Broadway version with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. We loved it and got good same-day seats for $49. Ball-zac!!!! Speaking of roof beams (above), two of my neighbors, including the one right behind me, had extensive, expensive damage to their homes from fallen trees last month. Not even their own trees.
I thought you didn’t recognized Matthew after he cut his hair, shaved off his beard and mustache, and got glasses.
I did rather poorly in today’s game as I had a difficult time connecting the dots. As for the FJ, I didn’t have a clue.
Seemed like very hard answers tonight . Glad I wasn’t on a podium.
Suresh, darn those Daily Doubles! Not only that, the swing you took on that last clue didn’t work out.
Suresh is now the third contestant to become ineligible to play Final Jeopardy.
For this season.