Final Jeopardy: U.S. History (3-6-23)
Here are some more clues from the 3/6/2023 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.
HOW OFTEN WILL IT HAPPEN? ($1000) A jubilee year as recounted in the book of Leviticus in the Bible
HISTORY ($800) In recent history, he announced in December 2016 that he’d run against Vladimir Putin; as it turned out, a dangerous decision
THE TECH BEAT ($2000) If it were founded today, National Geographic might be National this “Geo-” adjective, tech including 3D mapping & remote sensing
SEA HERE ($2000) More properly a lake, this Central Asian sea has shrunk dramatically, due to diversion of its water for irrigation
MORE THAN ONE MEANING ($1600) Stuff your face, or a deep valley or canyon with steep sides
PIVOTAL WOMEN ($1600) After inspiring millions to join a global climate strike in 2019, this Swedish activist was named “Time” magazine’s Person of the Year
($2000) Depicted in the movie “Hidden Figures” & described as one of NASA’s “human computers”, this mathematician overcame institutional racism & sexism doing the complex calculations that put America’s first astronauts into space & on the Moon
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Sneak Peek clues — QUOTABLE TV SHOWS
($200) “I’m not paying you to do stand-up, Mr.Squidward! Now get back to work!
($400) “A Lannister always pays his debts”
($600) A classic of early TV: “Hello, friends, I’m your Vitameatavegamin girl”
($800) “Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car”
($1000) Dr. Alex Karev: “You made me love you, you made me let you in & then you freakin’ died in my arms”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Now that’s just, what, weird, perseverating, crazy, that six of 16 responses (before mine) were from Rick. Personally, I would say, “I found FJ to be easy”, and stop there.
There was an article on the US Sun , quoting people who said online that “Stephanie got robbed”. On the Thunberg clue, I didn’t know if that was a variant accent pronunciation, or just wrong. As an example, if the clue asked for a repetitive Samoan capital, I would say, phonetically, “Pango Pango”, because that’s in the Samoan dialect, and would be 100% correct.
As for the “Hidden Figures” lady, one thing I’ve learned from J! competitors who have done Quiz Bowl is, give the minimum amount of info to respond. If you’re going to give the first name, when you don’t have to, you better get it right.
As to the reversal, I said “matrix”, also, but also thought that it was a poorly written clue.
No, the often told expression “your name is Mudd” came directly from Dr. Samuel Mudd.
Oh by the way, the contestant on the right came up with Greta Thunberg as one of the responses during the game, but Mayim Bialek didn’t give her the credit simply because she apparently mispronounced the last name. Actually, I pronounced it the same way that she did, but I sure gave myself credit for it. After all, I don’t speak Swedish.
What did you think about that VJ?
Well, Rick, I don’t think about it anymore. Back in 2019, there was a similar situation over an Italian name and I thought they should have cut the contestant more slack. There’s also the inconsistency issue with whether they split these hairs or not.
Ultimately, it is up to the judges. One thing you can bet on: the host does not make that decision.
The FJ was a shoo-in, and was likely meant exclusively for those young people’s level. However, I was shocked that none of the contestants gave the correct response. No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How could that have possibly been was beyond me. Anyways, even my 94 year old mother got it right, and right off the bat I might add. As for my brother, he knew which doctor that the clues were referring to, but couldn’t quite come up with the name.
Today’s final was an easy one?
Oh sir, my 94 year old mother even came up with Dr. Mudd, and rather quickly I might add. As for my brother, he knew exactly what doctor that the clues were referring to, but couldn’t quite come up with the name.
Not sure why you keep insulting your mother, since being 94-year-old doesn’t mean “nearly incompetent.” People who have lots of life experiences have an easier time with Jeopardy (which is why some old fogeys like us on here find some categories and shows super easy as time goes by). So thinking a bunch of youngun’s would instantly get it is a leap.
No need to hijack the whole comments section to show how smart you are. Hopefully you can get on the show and become the next, sigh, superchamp (a term I rather loathe, mostly because they get boring as they roll over competition for a month or so).
Don’t know where else to ask this. Tonight’s show asked about a TV show.
The answer should have been SpongeBob SquarePants, Mayim accepted response of SpongeBob, that is not the shows correct name?
Hi, Robert K. I don’t think it’s unusual for them to accept a shortened version that is commonly used for some titles. Just “SpongeBob” falls within that exception, imo
That was a tough final as we got a triple stumper to start the week off and our first one since January 31.
A tough finale? How you jest! It was like following the yellow brick road with all of those obvious clues that were just staring at you in the face. How could anybody have flubbed it? Actually, it seemed that the Jeopardy writers were trying mighty hard to make sure that every contestant gave the correct response.
I thought it was a twisty FJ too. I did recognize it had something to do with Lincoln could not come up with the correct answer. Nice to see that many people are saying it was easy. After all, that name Mudd does sound familiar from grade school… probably. There’s always two sides to everything!
I think Justin feels better after his awful semifinal game in 2019.
Yep, tough luck for Claire. I was hoping she would advance to the finals but we had a triple stumper. That means both Teen Tournament winners have advanced to the semifinals but lost their semifinal game.
Now there’s gonna be a rematch between Caleb and Maya.