Final Jeopardy: The United Nations (3-14-24)
Here are some more clues from the 3/xx/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.
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($400) In 1923 E.B. White was fired by the Seattle Times; he’d later find success with this 1945 tale about a mouselike boy
($800) Newspaperman Ben Hecht wrote the novel “Erik Dorn” & then wrote for the movies with this director’s “Spellbound”
($1200) Willard Motley wrote novels as well as Bud Billiken newspaper columns for this city’s black weekly The Defender
($1600) This New Journalism leader wrote the novel “I Am Charlotte Simmons”, about early 21st century college life
($2000) This scribe worked the baseball beat for a N.Y. paper but got his potatoes with the story collection “Guys & Dolls” & whatnot
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($200) What’s all this noise? (6 letters)
($400) A clever trick or stratagem (4 letters)
($600) A spinning spit for cooking meat (10 letters)
($800) The nose knows it’s inflammation of its mucous membranes (8 letters)
($1000) Fishie doing a ridealong on a shark (6 letters)
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I said “Myanmar, or Burma”, thinking U Thant for Final. Wrong! I did think they wouldn’t use a nation with 2 names, but, I still went with it.
Ben was again only mildly animated, from my viewing, tonight. However, some of his enunciations are kinda weird.
I was thinking about what you said above, VJ., in Re: Yogesh and “Save me”. The clue asked for the nation. Were one to say “the guy from Peru”, I might guess that that would be wrong. And two wrongs don’t make a right. So, I dunno.
I misread the clue when I first saw it, Jason, and I thought they wanted the guy’s name, so I really meant that in a joking way, but I still had the right response in there.
They’d probably be a lot less likely to expect them to know that man’s name than your scenario. 🤣
Oh, now I get you. Now, it makes more sense to me.
When I had my oral boards for board certification, there was an X-ray of something I recognized, but just could NOT remember the name. I described all the correct treatments and interventions, but I recall the examiner saying something to the effect of “the defect you identified”, because she couldn’t give it to me!
Something more challenging would be “the current King of the UK, son of QE2.” That IDs everything but “Charles”.
Another terrific game among heavyweights.
Re the FJ from two years ago: 10 years ago I won a Lifetime TV sweepstakes for a trip to Fall River, MA and two nights at the Lizzie Borden House, a B&B.
It was a tie-in with a new TV movie about the incident. Enjoyed my stay very much. I slept in the room where her stepmother was axed!
But everything inside the house is non-original.
I would have demanded credit for “Who is that guy from Peru” after Yogesh got a thumbs up on “Save me, Chaka Khan”
Very unusual that the same answer (or, response, I guess) appeared twice: “What is 15?”
I’m glad that we have a three way tie. Everybody has one win each.