Final Jeopardy: Old Words (3-27-24)
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.
EQUINE WORDS ($1000) Asked by Herod what she wanted, the daughter of Herodias replied, “Give me here John Baptist’s head in” one of these platters
PORTS OF CALL ($800) The light over this river’s estuary at Le Havre was one reason the city calls itself the Cradle of Impressionism
DURING JAMES BUCHANAN’S PRESIDENCY ($2000) Regular mail across the continent began with this stage line & antonymically communication went under water via the transatlantic cable
MUSIC COLLABS ($800) This country singer collaborated with Leon Bridges on the song “If You Were Mine”
($2000) Billie Holiday & this sax player first linked up in 1934; soon enough they gave each other nicknames, Lady Day & Prez
I’VE GOT A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU ($2000) Overproduction of the hormone somatotropin causes this form of gigantism marked by increased bone size
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: AUTO PARTS 101
($200) When driving a pal’s treasured 1964 Pontiac GTO, go easy on this pedal that releases the crankshaft
($400) The star method is used to tighten these fasteners; follow each with the one diagonally opposite
($600) The belt that drives your alternator, water pump & other important components is known by this snaky adjective
($800) It’s what Tesla calls the place you stick the charger into; Ford & GM have agreed to use Tesla charging teach in in their EVs
($1000) A seal between 2 mechanisms, the “head” one seals the combustion part of an engine to allow oil & coolant to circulate properly
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Got Final by just parsing it out: meso – middle nox – night. After getting the theremin, I was surprised Brandon didn’t get it.
I have to be honest – I don’t remember Brandon from 2008. It’s just like Victoria Groce – don’t remember her either. Then again, I didn’t recall Ryan Chaffee on J! on MasterMinds, either!
I used to play HQ Trivia (and they robbed me of $26.13 that they owed me!), and Alex Jacob won exactly once – for $25,000. It was a special prize, and that was all his historical winnings. HQ was 12 multiple choice questions, where you had to get it right to get the next question. Get all 12, you won or split the prize money. The one Alex won, if I recall correctly, was a special one, where questions were given until there was only one person left. And, as time went on, even in the regular games, the Q’s got arcane – like, the name of the Lone Ranger’s nephew’s horse – which was Victor. (Notably, in A Christmas Story, Ralphie’s mother says that exact thing, but it sounds like she’s just making up an answer.)
Jennifer seemed like she was left behind, but, getting FJ will sure change that! Hope she can keep up in the next round!
Wow, a tough FJ in today’s game, but Jennifer got it. Kudos to her! Anyways, as I was saying, a FJ so tough that I couldn’t find ‘mesonoxian’ anywhere in my American Heritage dictionary. Well, ‘mesonoxian’ may have been found in some English dictionary after the Mayflower landed, but I’m sure that later editions had simply dropped that archaic, little known and profoundly little used word. Lest I was mistaken, ‘mesonoxian’ was made up of some hodgepodge derived from both Greek and Latin.
Quite a battle tonight. I figured “meso” meant “middle” but stopped there.
Surprised no one knew the country megastar from her photo, or the Tesla charger connection.
I knew Jennifer a bit from a weekly, difficult, online trivia game we played a few years ago. Actually outscored her about half the time. There was a subgroup for J! alums but she wasn’t in it. Haven’t received the quiz for quite a while now, so I guess the host discontinued it.