Final Jeopardy: Historic Americans (3-15-24)
Here are some more clues from the 3/15/2024 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.
The players got all the clues in FAMOUS WOMEN:
($400) In 2023 all living First Ladies gathered in Atlanta to pay tribute to this First Lady who passed away at 96
($800) For over 15 years, she was one of the most powerful people in the world (image)
($1200) In 1924 she began working with the American Foundation for the Blind & for over 40 years was its leading ambassador
($1600) Subject of a 2023 film, in 2013, she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage for protection
($2000) Referred to as the “Jackie Robinson of tennis”, she was named Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 & 1958 by the Associated Press
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($200) An Olympic award changes a letter & becomes this lever
($400) A 4-games-to-0 result in the World Series changes its second letter to “T” & becomes this adjective
($600) Satisfaction taken in winning trades a “D” for a “Z” & becomes this award for winning
($800) A championship flag trades one of its “N”s for a “D” & becomes this dangling thing
($1000) A verb meaning to admit, as into a Hall of Fame, changes a letter & becomes this verb meaning to infer from reasoning
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These kinds of FJs drive home the fact that nobody knows everything. Solway Firth is contextually a body of water in Scotland. Why would a US admiral be commemorating someone from Scotland? John Paul Jones was kind of an honorary North Carolinian. As a native North Carolinian, I knew John Paul Jones was a Scot by birth. On the other hand, I don’t think I remember a single UN Secretary-General since Dag Hammarskjöld
I went with Admiral Chester Nimitz for FJ which I didn’t feel was too bad of a guess. But General John Pershing? No, he was a worldly renowned army general.
It’s humbling to see how much these tournament players know that I don’t.
I’m going to have to go back several recaps to find a FJ I nailed.
My sister just asked me why Troy lost by $1. I explained that he had to bet $7601 in case Yogesh bet it all and both got it right. But Yogesh bet $5200, which would have tied him with Ben had both got FJ right. Seems to me $5201 would have been wiser. But it didn’t matter. If Ben had had anything less than $12800 he’d not have won. That’s how the math works out sometimes.
This is the second time that Ben has won by one dollar. A lot can happen on Monday’s game. Either Ben will win the whole shebang or Troy or Yogesh can secure their second win.