Final Jeopardy: Novel Characters (2-9-24)
Here are some more clues from the 2/9/2024 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.
NUMERICAL TELEVISION ($2000) Would you believe these were the 2 code numbers used by the 2 main CONTROL agents fighting KAOS on “Get Smart!”
POETRY ($1000) Wallace Stevens wrote, “Among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye of” this creature
____ OF ____ ($2000) Yom Kippur is also known by this name because it’s set aside to repent & ask for forgiveness
AMERICAN HISTORY ($2000) Still going in Macon, a college with this Methodist-conscious name was the USA’s first chartered to grant degrees to women
LET’S HAVE A WORD ($1200) Want the perk of being respected for your vocabulary? Then show us you known that “perk” is short for this small privilege
SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT LYRICS ($800) This 1956 Elvis Presley title “found a new place to dwell” with Whitney Houston; different lyrics, of course
ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION ($2000) The Midwest’s 29th state & a Colorado county, both named after Native American peoples
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Sneak Peek clues — SEC & THE CITY
($200) University of Florida: thisville
($400) University of Tennessee: thisville
($600) University of Arkansas: thisville
($800) University of Mississippi: this city
($1000) University of Missouri: this city
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I was 3/3 on DDs, but missed FJ, with no answer. However, I knew, cold, the Duke of Wellington, as Arthur Wellesley was the first Duke.
Still, quite a very good game!
Heck of a comeback by Emma. Felt bad for her for that reversal. I took French for 10 years, and didn’t know till now that “circonflexe” ends with an e. We read the Bronte novel in 8th grade, 50 years ago, but I was stumped.
Did not expect them to know the Animals/ELO/Sia “Don’t” song or the “Get Smart” agent numbers. I didn’t watch that show much, but those two numbers are unforgettable. I certainly expected answers to the full meaning of “perk,” the alternate name of Yom Kippur, the Elvis place to dwell.
Yes, Emma got the FJ right, and no small wonder in view of her profession. As for me, I started out rather slow at first during the game, and then racked up a sizeable score. No, I didn’t get the FJ since I wasn’t familiar at all with that novel.
We read that novel in 8th grade, 50 years ago, but I didn’t remember that part.
Wow, it seemed to me that the novel would have been geared for mature audiences.