Final Jeopardy: Transportation USA (3-28-23)
Here are some more clues from the 3/28/2023 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.
GEOMETRICAL GEOGRAPHY ($1000) This northernmost spot of Alaska was named for Sir John, a proponent of Arctic exploration
3 MEN ($1000) The 2022 Nobel econ prize went to 3 men who had researched financial crises; this winner had faced one IRL as Fed chair in 2007 & ’08
WHEN IN ROME ($2000) Stop by the Borghese Gallery to see this sculptor architect’s different take on “David”
WRITERS OF THE CLOTH ($2000) An influential writer on spiritual themes, Thomas Merton was a member of this order known for emphasizing silence & austerity
WORDS FROM GREEK & LATIN ($800) A fancy word for movies is related to this Greek-derived word for “exhibiting motion”
($1600) The opposite of an iamb, this word for a pattern of stressed-unstressed as in the word “rabbit” is from Greek for “run”
WORLD HISTORY ($1200) During the Mexican Revolution, U.S. Marines seized this “true cross” port & occupied it for 7 months
BEFORE & AFTER FEMALE DUOS ($1200) “GLOW” wrestler & Captain Marvel portrayer
($2000) Charlie Brown’s “spicy” gal pal & newly chosen President Pro Tempore of the Senate from Washington
BEFORE & AFTER ANSWERS: show
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — FANCIFIED BEASTLY IDIOMS
($200) It’s impossible to instruct the elder canine with state-of-the-art maneuvers
($400) Release one Persian from a sack
($600) Up to the moment of the reappearance of bovines at their domicile
($800) In the manner of one flying fox leaving pandemonium
($1000) The Appaloosa with alternate pigmentation
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Wow – Howard and VJ took my comments! Great minds, and all that!
To wit: Mara and Mayim, Lisa all over the place and so demonstrative.
The APGAR was, believe it or not, another bad question. Virginia Apgar was who created it (and, Howard, I think she had a stamp!). It was after the fact that the “appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration” was created. It wasn’t a de novo acronym.
What a low scoring affair. Was hoping for more.
And, I lived in NYC for 3 years, and said “MTA”. I think I rode a bus twice – maybe once.
Oh, and, the Triumvirate clue! Haha!
Three delightful contestants (other than Lisa’s incessant facial contortions), but a very uneven contest punctuated by many wrong answers. On the first DD, the clue gave the APGA portions of the APGAR score, but Lisa didn’t pick up on that and said “speech,” which of course is not measurable in a newborn. I had no clue what each letter stood for, but figured out the R-word.
She was VERY fortunate to get back into the game right at the end. She was up and down like a yoyo the whole game.
Stumpers were very tough. Only one I knew was the Charlie Brown/Senator Pro Tem.
I thought all 3 DDs were easy, for a change,
In 1972 I was a temporary mail carrier for the Times Square PO on W 40th St, adjacent to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Last time I visited, the PO was gone. I’ve taken many a ride to and from that building, as recently as last October.
the $400 clue in Double Jeopardy they were supposed to get in time was Tough Tough-Guy TV.
Hmmmmm………I came up with the New York Transit Authority for FJ. I don’t suppose that Ken Jennings would have accepted that?
Nope. As far as I know, the MTA operates city buses and subways, and the Long Island RR. Port Authority a different entity. I assume it also oversees the docks. I’m not sure there’s a NY Transit Authority these days, although I think that was a name that preceded the MTA.
I always knew it as the New York Transit Authority, but I guess that I was mistaken.
I can’t believe Nicole missed final jeopardy. She lives in Long island and I’m sure she’s been to the city frequently. She probably overthought it. I expected the contestant from Boston to miss it and she got it correct. Always surprises on Jeopardy. 🤔🤔
Can’t wait to see the show tonight. I want to see Nicole’s reaction. Wow! I’m shocked.
It never occurred to me this morning, but maybe she thought the same two words couldn’t be the FJ answer when they were the answer to the 1950 hint
I just watched the show and Nicole’s reaction was exactly what I expected. It was a look of “I overthought this.” Things like that can and do happen.
Btw, I posted that the non-New Yorker contestant was from Boston but she was introduced as being from Washington DC & VJ has her as being from there as well. Don’t know where I got Boston. 🤣
I must have missed it. What 1950 hint?
Hi Marilyn, it’s this part of the final clue — the USA’s busiest bus terminal, opened in 1950 (referring to the bus terminal). I put their acronyms (PABT & PANYNJ) in the info part to show they start with the same 2 words, but have different endings. Locals just call them both “Port Authority” as far as I’ve ever heard.
That first Roman triumvirate won a Master Minds contestant $10K yesterday.
More coincidences: I just watched “Man in the Attic” starring Jack Palance last night.
After that time they had the Mayim categories with Ken hosting, we wondered what he was thinking about Mara’s resemblance to Mayim 🤣
Thanks VJ my brain was not working.