Final Jeopardy: Literature (3-13-23)
Here are some more clues from the 3/13/2023 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.
BLOSSOM ($1000) Hawaii’s state flower, the yellow this has bell-shaped blossoms & is endangered
A STONE GROOVE ($800) This band was on the 2013 charts singing, “if you’re lost & alone, or you’re sinking like a stone, carry on”; sounds like…
($1600) A motor oil brand helped inspire the name of this grunge band with hits like “Vasoline” & “Creep” (band name)
GOVERNORS ($1200) Michael Dukakis was in his third term as governor of this state when he ran for president in 1988
SAME CONSONANT THRICE ($1600) Similar to embezzlement, doing this to “funds” is illegally using someone else’s money
($2000) Past tense word for pants that pool around the feet — This is the answer given on the show. However, I can’t find anything about pants using the past tense.
The players got 2 of the clues in FILL IN THE BLANKET:
($200) Q____ (5 letters)
($400) C____R (9 letters)
($600) D____ (5 letters)
($800) Heated WWII flying suits led to the patent: E____ (8 letters)
($1000) It reduces stress for some: W____D (8 letters)
BLANKET ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — CALL ME “CAT”
($200) Something very appealing to people is likened to this “feline” herb of the mint family
($400) 19th c. consumers liked buying from folks they knew so Mr. Montgomery Ward might send a personal note if you ordered from this
($600) This No.1 hit has haunted fathers since 1974 as they watch time pass all too quickly as their sons grow up
($800) Someone full of big talk without being able to back it up is said to be “all hat, no” this
($1000) You’re sitting in this idiomatic “seat” when you have a position of great advantage
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I thought it was a little refreshing when Stephen worded his response as “Is it?”.
I did the math, and still got FJ wrong.
I met Alan Ginsberg at a function at WSU “back in the day” and this clue is, in Jacob Ska’s words, so far out of my wheelhouse, I didn’t even recognize it. I had to take the year (2006) and subtract 50 to have a relevant time line (for PUBLISHING – not even writing). I confess I never heard of the 2006 book by Jason Shinder. I know Final Jeopardy should be challenging but deliberately obscuring the writer seems odd to me.
P.S. Thanks VJ for the correct title and author of the poem.
Wow, what a game. Stephen started out like a house afire, with Roy standing like a statue and Karen spouting wrong answers. Very impressive the way Roy came back and nailed those DDs. I was hoping he’d come up with Houston on that last one.
Was pretty sure the FJ answer was from the Beat era, but my mind foolishly went to Kerouac instead of the Ginsburg poem which is very familiar. Really thought Roy would nail it and win.
That Swedish vodka stumper was tricky, but I thought someone might know it. The motor oil brand and Dukaks’ state were softballs.
A tough FJ, but regarding the censorship of the 1950s, I sure didn’t see anything wrong with Ricky and Lucy Ricardo sleeping in separate beds. As per what is shown on TV nowadays, a return to the strict censorship would be a very welcome guest in my opinion.
With 28,000 going into Final, Roy has to be seen as a frontrunner for a spot in the Second Chance Tournament. I think it is 100 percent confirmed that Roy will be in the second chance because of finding both daily doubles and betting it all and got it right and had the highest score but did not win.
“Sympathy” is The real title of the poem that the “I know why the caged bird sings” line comes from. It was written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and published in 1899. (Link to poem)