Final Jeopardy: Chemical Names (3-27-23)
Here are some more clues from the 3/27/2023 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.
BRITISH TO AMERICAN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR ($400) In the U.K., this part of your Rolls-Royce is called a mudguard
FANTASY SPORTS ($1000) This author says in “Sirens of Titan” that the children of Mars “spent most of their time playing German batball”
THE BIBLE ($2000) St. Paul declares himself to be from the tribe named for this younger son of Rachel & Jacob
ISLANDS OF THE FAR NORTH ($800) A Russian lieutenant gave this island southeast of Anchorage its name because its outline resembled an Inuit canoe
I LIKE AMERICAN MUSIC ($2000) An ad in the Village Voice brought drummer Clem Burke into this band he’s been playing with since the ’70s
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Sneak Peek clues — I LED WHAT CABINET DEPARTMENT?
($200) To put it diplomatically, Condoleeza Rice
($400) Alexander Hamilton: Now say the phrase that pays!
($600) William Willard Wirtz won workers’ well-wishes
($800) Janet Napolitano who as president of the University of California later sued this department over its treatment of “dreamers”
($1000) George Dern, doing work on preparedness in the 1930s in a job that no longer exists
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Never took a chem class, but that’s no excuse for not knowing the chief Egyptian god and maybe deriving the answer from that. Sulphur was my only guess. I did know the Clem Burke band and the Alaskan island.
Nicole was very smart and likable. She was a worthy winner who beat two decent players who made a few too many boo-boos. That first DD wasn’t difficult, as the Statue of Liberty and the French landmark came about around the same time.
Pretty sure William Weyser would say darn those daily doubles.
Hmmmm………I was thinking of hydrogen sulfide for FJ, but I suppose if I knew the name of the Egyptian deity, I probably would have come up with ammonia instead.
Actually, I used hydrogen sulfide in the past for removing the copper so as to make homemade circuit board foils. In fact, I still have some hydrogen sulfide at home.