Final Jeopardy: Word Origins (2-7-23)
Here are some more clues from the 2/7/2023 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.
The players got all the clues in WORDS WITH DIPHTHONGS:
($400) A diphthong is a sound made by combining 2 vowels, like the “AI” in tail or in this word for the head of a committee
($800) “Rosebud is the sled?!” You just blew the surprise of a major plot point with one of these revealing statements
($1200) Take a diphthong into this word for a sullen expression, which “you better not” do, “I’m telling you why” in a Christmas song
($1600) One who gives advice; it’s also a term of address used by judges to lawyers
($2000) It means a farm laborer & follows “Piers” in the name of a 14th century poem with a double-diphthong title
DIPHTHONGS ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — WHICH WAR?
($200) The French take the Duchy of Guyenne from England in 1337 & things get out o hand for a long while
($400) The destroyer HMS Sheffield is sunk by a missile but Argentina loses at least 20% of its planes
($600) In 431 B.C., Spartan ally Thebes goes after Plataea, an Athenian pal, & it’s on
($800) Michigan’s territorial governor surrenders Detroit without a shot being fired
($1000) Israel quickly captures the Gaza Strip & Golan Heights
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I feared that J! might be preëmpted last night, at least not on CBS which we pick up here in the Flathead at 6:00 MST. I didn’t check the other channels. Fortunately it wasn’t.
Unless I heard the clew incorrectly on Monday(?), I think Mr. Jennings mentioned that James Clavell was interned in Japan as a POW. I’ve read a lot of Clavell: he was captured in Java and ended up in the “old” Changi POW Prison in Singapore ’til the end of the war. Since 1981 the Singapore Changi International Airport primarily occupies that site; and a new prison was built elsewhere to replace the old 1937 British built one. Clavell’s autobiographical “King Rat” came out in 1962, and the movie of the same name was released by Columbia Pictures in 1965 starring George Segal, which I never saw. Supposedly a good movie, although Clavell himself didn’t care for it: “my feeling is the film failed because [Bryan] Forbes [director] took away the story thread and made it a composite of character studies” (< wiki). I don't think I would ever of read it if the novel was a sequence of 'character studies'. But a good book it was.
A clew about Manitoba made nation-wide news in Canada a few days ago. Check ctvnews.ca (CTV News). I was there in 2006 and I can attest that it actually exists and Winnipeg is quite a large city with an excellent university.
Looking forward tonight to see if the well-qualified Matthew Marcus will become a 5-day champion. I think he will.
Didn’t matter in the long run, but Greg must have suffered brain freeze when he thought a Finnish igloo was 210 degrees.