Final Jeopardy: Countries of the World (3-1-24)
Here are some more clues from the 3/1/2024 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.
PLACE NAME ETYMOLOGIES ($1000) This port city at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula comes from words for “cauldron” & “mountain”
POP CULTURE PRINCESSES ($000) in “The Princess Diaries”, Mia Thermopolis finds out that she is the crown princess of this (fictional) country
RHYMES WITH RHYME ($1000) In computer jargon, it’s an extension that allows the transfer of different types of data files via email
CHEMISTRY CLASS ($1600) The Arrhenius equation shows the rate of collisions of particles increasing with this measure for the solution they’re in
($2000) The heroine of TV’s “Lessons in Chemistry” has ideas about this concept that inorganic compounds could have led to life
GENDERED LANGUAGE ($1200) Change the second syllable in the alter ego of Princess Adora to get this word for a powerful female
($1600) This word combines slang for a man & a type of cosmetic
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: FOOD, FAST
($200) Dutch gives us the name of these baked treats, an afternoon tea staple
($400) This cool Indian side dish is often made with cucumber & a yogurt or curd called dahi
($600) One member of the beet family is Swiss this
($800) Bottom line– it’s a burrito that’s been deep fried
($1000) Liquid smoke, not coffee liqueur, is in this shredded pork dish, the star of many luaus
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Only 2 players made it to Final Jeopardy (French Authors) last Friday, too
I went in on Zaire. Even as I told myself there were literally millions of people there, I tunnel visioned.
But, if you wanted to know, the only nation in CARICOM (Caribbean Community) with Dutch as an official language is Surinam!
Day late and a dollar short, indeed!
Anyone else think those clues were murderous tonight, start to finish? (Other than that first DD; didn’t think there was a living adult who doesn’t know the Spanish word for water.) Couldn’t even answer a stumper, although I wasn’t paying full attention to the tea accompaniment clue.
Brian took an online beating the first time he was on for his resemblance to a past German dictator. It hurt him deeply, and he wrote poignantly about the experience on FB. And donated $500 (I think) to the Anti-Defamation League, as I recall. His effusive personality is made for TV.
FJ figured to be a Dutch colony, but which one was the key.
@Howard, I thought someone might’ve guessed Indonesia. I’ve read that far more people moved from the former Dutch East Indies to the Netherlands but that was much earlier than the Surinamese.
I ruled out Indonesia immediately because it certainly had to have had more than 360K population in 1975, and I assume it became Indonesia long before then. (Isn’t it the densest population in the world?) If I’d had more time, I might have come up with one of the Caribbean resort islands. BTW, my NYC niece who works for Heineken is on a long-term assignment in Indonesia now. My sis went to visit her last year and got really ill and had to go to the ER. They charged her only about $240. Had to add a week to her trip and pay hundreds of $$ to rebook flight home.
Wow. what an awful thing to happen to your sister.
According to Wikipedia’s chart, the Netherlands (1,100/sq. mi.) is more densely populated than Indonesia (380/sq. mi, same statistic as Cape Verde)
The FJ was gettable, but none of us came up with it.
And we end the week with a double stumper as today’s final was a tough one thanks to that pesky geography clue.
I felt bad for Stephen, he had to keep swinging away to get out of the negatives but it didn’t work out for him. And as a result, he wasn’t around for Final.
Why did Stephen have to keep swinging away? When that $1K Roman Holiday clue came up, he was already at minus $600. Why take a guess on a $1K clue from that position? I think Stephen needed to take a deep breath and get his bearings,
He was so unnerved, I wanted to cry when he couldn’t get the response out to the Dolly Parton Queen cover, and that was only an $800 clue.