Final Jeopardy: Ranks & Titles (2-6-20)
Here are 4 more triple stumpers from the 2/6/2020 Jeopardy! game:
PUTTING A “B” IN YOUR BONNET ($1000) This men’s hat of the Napoleonic era has a name meaning “two-horned”
1980S POP LYRICS ($800) Bruce Springsteen: “I’m ten years burning down the road”
IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S ME ($1600) VP Richard Johnson lived openly with a female slave– one reason this party dropped him from the 1840 ticket with Martin Van Buren
& THEN THERE WERE NUNS ($1600) This art nun, who became an unlikely BBC and PBS star with TV series like her “Story of Painting”, passed away in 2018 at the age of 88
SURINAME ($400) It’s Suriname’s colonial heritage & came before “Guiana” in the country’s old name
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — FIRST NAME:
($200) Steamboat whiz Fulton
($400) 19th century “Pathfinder” & politician Fremont
($600) Novelist & sometime Iowa resident Smiley
($800) Socialist candidate Debs, middle initial V.
($1000) Lorenzo de Medici’s paternal grandfather
ANSWERS: show
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My husband agrees it is Poet Laureate. After looking it up I also agree. There is more laureate classes than the better known Poet.
Am I the only one who questions whether they should have accepted just “laureate” without “poet?” But he would still have won even if they ruled him incorrect.
Probably not, John. The way that went down I thought at first that just “laureate” was what they wanted. But when I saw that Belgium had created the position in 2014, I decided that was why they included that country and they were after “poet laureate.”
My guess is the judges felt they had to accept just laureate because the clue lacked a specific reference to a poet or poetry,
If you are remembering quotes from The Apartment, then you need to be on Jeopardy!
Cherisa was up and down in the game today it wasn’t her day. The boys took the game away from her.
Well, it’s unfortunate Travis didn’t win his fourth game but Patrick came out on top today. Congrats to him and Cherisa on getting final right.
I knew the directors because the movie Gentlemen’s Agreement was something I saw back in high school a long time ago. One of the quotes was “I called up my sister Jane and she squealed Kathy as if she had given up any hope of anyone ever asking me.” And “oh dave we couldn’t get married without you what happened?”
I hope Patrick can build up on his win VJ. What are some of the quotes you remember from The Apartment movie? Brigadier General is a military rank and not a artistic rank.
No problem, Lou — you shouldn’t put the answers to the triple stumpers in the comments anyhow — that way other people have a chance to see if they know it or not.
That article in wikipedia does say that “laureate” is applicable to military glory.
I don’t remember any quotes from The Apartment. I saw that so long ago, I barely remember anything about it except it starred Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.