Final Jeopardy: Poets of Ancient Rome (3-4-24)
Here are some more clues from the 3/4/2024 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.
I HEARD A RUMOR ($800) In a Klymaxx song a woman says if you want to be sure about your man, go powder your nose & have a “meeting in” this title place
HOBBIES & PASTIMES ($800) The pastime of skimming flat stones across calm water also has this double avian name
NUMERIC MOVIE TITLES ($800) Loosely based on a classic legal film, this Nikita Mikhalkov drama pits a racist juror against a pensive foreman
LECTURING YOU ON SCIENCE ($1200) The 1937 Nobel chemistry lecture on “The Structure of” these explains the progress in understanding starches
A LI’L BALLET, A LI’L OPERA ($1200) It’s the one-letter title of Anthony Davis’ bio-opera that made its Metropolitan Opera debut in 2023
5-SYLLABLE WORDS ($1200) If you’re using metaphors & similes to make a point, you’re speaking this way
($1600) Frances Willard, found of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, was one
($2000) From the Latin for “beauty” it’s an adjective meaning having great beauty
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($200) Perhaps you will be fresh as a daisy after imbibing thhis tequila cocktail whose name is Spanish for “daisy”
($400) This cocktail traditionally served in a copper mug gets its “kick” from lime juice, ginger beer & oh yeah, vodka
($600) It was inevitable that Sarah Jessica Parker would put her name on bottled & canned versions of this cocktail
($800) To be reductive, it’s a martini with an onion instead of an olive
($1000) A powerful artillery piece of World War I gave its name to this numeric cocktail made with champagne & gin
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I was rooting for Ike the whole game.. I thought he would ace the movie category and loved it when he got the DD in that category. I thought they would all get FJ right so yeah, that was yet another upset in this tourney
Congratulations to Ike! I love his movies (if you haven’t seen him in “Snatched”, you’ve missed out!), but I have to admit that I scoffed when I saw that he was on the same stage as Ray. Now I am fully expecting him to win!
Wow, what a game! Who’d have thought it? I mostly ignore Celebrity J! because I don’t like the way that too many of them don’t take the game seriously enough and crack one unfunny joke after another. When I did watch it years ago, Andy Richter set the bar for celebrity brilliance.
Ovid was the only Roman poet I’ve ever heard of. That narrowed it down quickly. Then briefly thought about Cicero, but he was mostly known as an orator.
Knew the $2K 5-syllable word; didn’t hurt that I saw it somewhere a few days ago, although I was familiar the noun form of it. In hindsight, the “structure of starches” and the Klymaxx title were kind of obvious.
Just a total, uninformed guess, but, I got final.
Surprised as all get out that Ike won. I predicted way back that he would get totally scorched in a first round game. How wrong I was!
I went with Cicero for FJ, and he was a writer. Anyways, I knew that wasn’t going to fly.