Final Jeopardy: American Literary History (3-6-24)
Here are some more clues from the 3/6/2024 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.
MEASURES ($1000) A unit of weight in the apothecaries’ system, it equals 20 grains; in another sense, it’s a synonym for a moral principle
1924 ($800) This future president was born June 12 in Milton, Massachusetts
UNUSUAL WORDS ($2000) Something that moves counterclockwise or off course is said to have gone this manner that ends with some leg parts
OCCUPATIONS ($2000) Terms for shoemakers include cobbler & this more archaic one derived from a type of Spanish leather
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($200) A cheerful & tricky sprite, or in a different sense, Black Francis, as one of a group
($400) Term for reproduction by an organism making copies of itself or an orientation without carnal desire
($600) Multiple blaring horns or warning hooters (that means put an S at the end of this high-score scrabble word, y’all)
($800) This math adjective that means having a common axis often precedes “cable”
($1000) The ore of aluminum
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I never noticed Troy in a chair before. His win was monster.
I got very, very few of the TS. That means either one or zero!
Didn’t get FJ. Didn’t even have a clue.
Methinks we have an early favorite to win the championship. What a performance. But there are so many variables.
It would have been easy to fall into the 1876/1976 trap, but I knew the year of the Emancipation Proclamation and that the Baldwin novel was a big deal in the early ’60s.
Barely recalled the name of the Carey Mulligan movie. It was offbeat but pretty good.
I think you got the positions for the second and third place at the end of DJ! mixed up. Anyway, 38,400 is the highest score we seen in the quarterfinals. We began this field with 27 players but now we’re down to 9 players and the semifinals begin tomorrow.