Final Jeopardy: Symbols (3-24-23)
Here are some more clues from the 3/24/2023 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.
THE FOG OF WAR ($2000) The fog that blanketed this Tennessee mountain during an 1863 fight led to the nickname “The Battle Above the Clouds”
AT REST IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY ($1200) Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, who captured this ancient capital from the Turks during World War I
U.S. COLLEGES ($800) Nine score & eleven years ago, our fathers brought forth in Pennsylvania this school
($1600) Cleverer College? Funnier College? No, this one 15 miles from Disneyland
6-LETTER RHYMERS ($1600) To associate on friendly terms with someone important is to do this
There was a tough category in each round today. In the first round, it was CHANGE A LETTER
($200) A close buddy changes a letter to become a labyrinth
($400) A track athlete who runs 1,760 yards transforms into a friendly meeting to get to know people
($600) The edge of a garment modifies itself into a magical spell
($800) See the Daily Double on page one
($1000) Excellence changes a letter & is now a division into 2 opposing aspects
CHANGE A LETTER ANSWERS: show
The word AFTER should not have been left out of the BEFORE & ACTORS category name in Round 2. That may have been a factor in the apparent confusion when the players repeatedly only gave one name. Two of the clues were not shown.
($400) Will Hunting & Jason Bourne on the big screen who is Roger Murtaugh on the small screen
($800) Not shown
($1200) Portrayer of the baseball bat-wielding Negan on “The Walking Dead” who narrated “March of the Penguins”
($1600) “Creed” star who got involved with a drug kingpin’s kitty in “Keanu”
($2000) Not shown
BEFORE & ACTORS ANSWERS: show
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — WHAT’LL IT “B”?
($200) The vanilla cinnamon variety of this Irish cream liqueur
($400) Dragonberry, a tropical flavor from this rum brand
($600) Praise the Lord & pass me a snifter of Christian Brothers VS this
($800) A cocktail flavored with Angostura aromatic these; they’re more pleasant than they sound
($1000) A shot of this & I don’t care whether it’s Booker’s or Blanton’s
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Does the company that produces Jeopardy have some kind of financial interest in WWE? I don’t think WWE is a worthy category for the program.
Hi Harry. That’s a question you should send directly to the show. There’s a link to their contact page at the bottom of the recap
Harry, Interesting, and timely, that you should mention WWE. I was watching the Business channels this past week and it appears that WWE is up for sale. The biggest potential buyers bidding are Disney (which owns ABC) and Comcast (which owns NBC). The fact that all 3 Jeopardy contestants gave correct responses in the category attests to the popularity of WWE among the younger generation.
It also has catapulted several WWE stars into acting careers. Some that come to my mind are Hulk Hogan, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and John Cena. To make things even more interesting Pat Sajak got into the act jokingly on “The Wheel of Fortune” this past week which airs on ABC. He had a contestant who was a wrestler and Pat Sajak jokingly pulled a wrestling move on him. Enough said. 😂
Good points!
In addition next week on Wheel viewers can win a trip to Wrestlemania.
Really?
Something is up and it smells bad.
Harry, I think we’re going to see more WWE clues. Don’t forget James Holzhauer is a huge WWE fan. Like you I’m not a fan. I guess it’s a generational thing. To my knowledge 2 states have had Governors who were former WWE personalities. California had Arnold Schwarzenegger and Minnesota had Jesse Ventura.
The Final Jeopardy answer is wrong. The second guy replied “inequality” which is what I believe to be the correct answer, i.e., if you rotate the V clockwise 90 degrees it’s “less than”; if you rotate it counter-clockwise, it’s “greater than.” Collectively, they are “inequalities.” Ken Jennings said that was the wrong answer. The third person said “less than” and she got it right, won the money and the game. Here’s my point: the question doesn’t specify which way you rotate the V, only that you rotate it. That makes (in my mind) “less than” only half the answer for the first part of the question. And I think inequality works just as well for the 2nd half of the question too. Make sense?
And, maybe it’s just me, but, this season, doesn’t it seem to occur more than rarely that”bad” clues are given? And, I can nearly guess that it is the same writer whose clues are so poorly written, obtuse, or just plain wrong (or, at least, questionable). Billy and Michelle should be on that (unless one of those two is the culprit!).
It’s not just you, Jason. I see a lot of complaints about the way some clues are written online. The response Ken gave to that Star Wars fuel stumper in TV Lingo yesterday was flat out called wrong on Twitter.
I thought the way today’s last Daily Double was worded was weird, but kudos to Tamara for getting it right.
Tamara and Michael both seemed to be too casual for me. I don’t expect Tamara to mount any type of win streak.
20 clues in mostly Double Jeopardy were unplayed this season.
I really thought they’d all get FJ. There are 3 ways to rotate a V, basically, and only one matches with “underrepresented.” 8th or 9th grade math term?
If the players knew where RM Nixon had attended college, perhaps they’d have known the one not far from Disneyland. Nearly all the other stumper tortured me, except for the $400 clue in Change a letter.
I meant to mention that Michael did know the answer to the author of Kon-Tiki. He just forgot to put it in question form. Ken did not rule him wrong immediately but Michael just didn’t pick up on his mistake and the other contestants didn’t either.
I was surprised at the Pennsylvania college TS — thought it was obvious.
I didn’t have the opportunity to watch the Jeopardy game show today. However, upon coming across the final answer which VJ had posted, I certainly wouldn’t have compared an alphabetical letter to a mathematical symbol. Actually, I could see why only one of the contestants managed to come up with the correct response as I certainly wouldn’t have.
Drat. The Jeopardy game time slot in our area was again overshadowed by still another basketball game. Well, I sure hope that such interruptions don’t continue into next week.