Final Jeopardy: World Flags (2-5-24)
Here are some more clues from the 2/5/2024 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.
LAKES & RIVERS ($1000) Europe’s longest river, the Volga flows more than 2,000 miles south into this large inland body of water
IT’S GIVING… ($200) In 1997 Kofi Annan thanked Ted Turner for the $1 billion given to this org., which was meant to invite other individual donations
($800) Apparently really into science, Ross Brown, the founder of Cryogenic Industries, pledged $400 million to this Pasadena college
($1000) Named for an athlete whose brother was a doctor, this Seattle cancer center has gotten gifts, like $700 million from Jeff Bezo’s parents
TOOLS ($1000) Used on bolts or screws, metric hex keys are known by this letter, their shape
BRITISH LITERATURE ($1200) The 24 pilgrim storytellers in “The Canterbury Tales” include this bawdy woman who tells of her 5 husbands
($1600) A man stopped on his way to a wedding feast is told of tragic events aboard a ship in this 1798 narrative poem
SOME LAZY WORDS ($1200) Oscitant is an adjective that means doing this–& don’t start, because I will too
SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS ($1600) In 2022 this “Pieces of You” singer returned with “Freewheelin’ Woman”, her first album in 7 years
($2000) An icon of ’60s cool, this German model & actress rose to musical fame with The Velvet Underground
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Sneak Peek clues — 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW
($200) Allison Janney & Dulé Hill did some walking and talking in the White House on this NBC drama
($400) In a group project, Gillian Jacobs & Yvette Nicole Brown schooled you from 2009 to 2015 on this college-set NBC sitcom
($600) In 2001 Jeri Ryan & Tim Russ completed a “Trek” through the Delta quadrant n the title starship
($800) Rebecca Wisocky & Brandon Scott Jones are scary good as the dearly departed Hetty & Isaac on this CBS comedy
($1000) We’re sanguine you’ll recall Michelle Forbes & Tara Buck takin’ in life in Loo’siana on this fangs-tastic HBO series
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I should have tuned in this Final Jeopardy!
I’ve been studying flags for a while and I know a lot of them, I watched the recap and wow the response for the first guy, lol! 😂
Jesse seemed almost casual, which was a little off-putting. Mira locked up the runaway on the last clue.
I got the right idea for FJ, but the country wrong! I saw Angkor Wat on the flag in my mind – and said “Thailand”!
Quite a comeback for my fellow Portlander after that shaky start.
I wasn’t too impressed with this group because they left so many gettable clues unanswered, but then again, I missed all 3 DDs and FJ.
The Treasury Secy and “Nobody’s perfect” writer weren’t obvious, but also not impossible. The Kofi Annan org was a cinch, as was the Pasadena college. So was the 1798 ship poem. The Seattle cancer center is world-famous. The Volga connection was very answerable.
Twiggy in the Velvet Underground? Oh my!
I’ve never heard of the Seattle Cancer Center, and I’m a doctor. It’s not mentioned with MD Anderson, Roswell Park, and Memorial Sloan Kettering. Just sayin’.
Fred was a major league manager who died of lung cancer at 45 in 1964. His brother, a physician and surgeon, founded the cancer center and named it for Fred in 1975. I knew of it long before I moved to Oregon.
Yes the Kofi Annan connection was an obvious giveaway.
I went with China for FJ, but that obviously wasn’t going to fly. Actually, ‘The Great Wall Of China’ came to mind even though no such depiction was featured on that country’s flag. Well perhaps in this case, a bad guess was better than nothing. In any event, I did quite well in the game otherwise.
For the first time ever in the show, all three players bet 0 in FJ! This is the first occurrence in the history of the show.
James Holzhauer never bets 0 in FJ! when it’s a runaway for him. Also, 25 years ago today, we had the exact opposite in The Battle of The Hunks, when all 3 celebrities got it right, and all 3 wagered everything, which resulted in Dharma and Greg’s Thomas Gibson winning $24,400 for the ASPCA.
With no less than 254 country flags on the planet, I can’t say that I blamed them for waging nothing.