Final Jeopardy: Fictional Families (2-24-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 2/24/2022 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.
BOOK OF THE YEAR ($800) Tim Pat Coogan’s account of the Easter Rising Rebellion in Ireland has this year for a title
($1000) The Maralinga nuclear tests along with the continent’s first Olympics are in this: “The Year Australia Welcomed the World”
PARISH FROM THE EARTH ($200) Louisiana has an East as well as a West this parish; the capital city is in the East
($600) The seat of Caddo Parish, this “port” city got very popular after the nearby discovery of oil in 1906
($800) The category title Parish from the Earth can clue you in to this presidential name of a parish with Ruston as its seat
SENATE COMMITTEES ($200) If you’re a Senator who has made questionable stock trades, you may run afoul of the “Select” committee regarding these
THE HALL OF FAMER’S POSITION ($800) Dick Butkus, Mike Singletary & Brian Urlacher; same team, different decades
HISTORIC WOMEN ($1200) One of America’s first self-made female millionaires, this founder of a beauty empire was the subject of a Netflix series
($2000) She made history when she became the first woman in space & more recently she’s served in the Russian parliament
LIT-POURRI ($800) In 1989, 30 years after this “Doctor Zhivago” author had to turn down his Nobel Prize, his son accepted it on his behalf
($1600) Shakespeare’s Sonnets 127 to 152 are addressed to a mysterious woman commonly called this, whose “eyes are raven black”
($2000) A little birdie told us this Pulitzer Prize winner for “Thomas and Beulah” was Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995
NAUTICAL LINGO ($800) Wa’a kaukahi is a Hawaiian canoe with just one of these; wa’a kaulua has a double one
($1600) A wall or partition that separates compartments on a vessel
THAT ’70s SHOW ($1600) Honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2021, Marla Gibbs was noted for playing Florence the maid on this sitcom
Sneak Peek clues — RHYMING SYNONYMS
($400) Deliberately discourteous & a “raw” grade of oil before refining
($800) Actor Pickens & a quick haircut
($1200) These 2 of Santa’s reindeer
($1600) A “-sayer” of old & the verity of what is said
($2000) “Tasty” descriptor for the 6 types of quarks & to relish in the moment
ANSWERS: show
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It feels to me like Christine is a “cooler”. At least, all clues were uncovered. But, how lackluster – borderline boring. I always find it a bit cringe worthy when there’s a $12k runaway. After the quizzical FJ bet lat night, I don’t know if Christine has “the real stuff”. Head to head vs some others this season, she gets creamed, cleanly. Congrats to her for being a two day champ.
Very uneven show, to say the least. All 3 DDs were very gettable, and Lucian easily would have won the game if he’d just known the expression for calm disposition that begins with “on.” He was at -600 early in DJ and came on strong, mostly with those rhyming synonyms.
As Ismael and Kevin said, they left a bushel of $$ on the table. Who doesn’t know what year the US centennial was? Was hoping someone would know the year Australia got the Olympics, the port city in LA, the Senate committee dealing with shaky stock trades, the position played by the three Bears, the author of Zhivago, and the first woman in space.
These players would have no chance if they were to face any of the GOATs on “The Chase.” But I’d love to see Matt or Amy go up against them on that show. Several former J! contestants have been on “The Chase,” and I know of a number of others who are in the audition stage.
I thought that was a tough FJ, and I sure didn’t come up with the correct response. Regarding the Addams Family TV series, the first season was a really big hit, but the second season suffered from rather lackluster scripting. .
Well I am not surprised that the ladies did not know the Addams family and now I got that theme song stuck in my head again.
I was never a follower of the Addams Family movies, tv shows, etc. I must admit the theme song was a catchy tune though.
I watched the tv series when I was a kid, but am not familiar with the movies, I think Angelica Huston might have played Morticia in one of the movies in the 90’s, I am not sure, though.
Terrible show as all 3 DDs were missed resulted a skunking. I am sure William Weyser or Richard Corliss will say darn those daily doubles.
I will agree with that. Plus we had 17 triple stumpers today. The most known record is 23.
That’s just crazy. I thought 11 in the College Tournament was a lot. 17 is a large amount of “dead air”.
I would say that, but I’m not in the mood, because I made an appearance on Rick Rampezzotti’s streaming channel. He is a friend of mine from Florida. Everything was going great, and then Rolando invited Tristan Gironda near the end of the stream yard. It was time to close off the stream yard, and Tristan didn’t it well. He was like “But I just got here.”, and he was swearing. I overreacted, and Rick didn’t like it. I don’t like swearing, and I’m sensitive. Tristan, I’m sorry. It’s not your fault. It’s Rolando’s fault. I feel like except for Jaskaran Singh winning the National College Championship & yesterday’s tiebreaker, this week has not been great. Let’s see if we can end this week on a high note or a low note, before I get mad at this month for being “The Month of Misunderstandings”, and hope that March will treat me like I’m a fully understood person.