Final Jeopardy: Central America (3-7-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 3/7/2022 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.
MOUNTAINS ($1000) Referring to its shape, this peak on which Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer Statue stands has a name meaning “hunchback”
FRENCH COOKING TERMS ($600) From a French word meaning “to scrape” we get this term for a preparation of breadcrumbs & cheese
($800)A silent “X” comes at the end of this sautéed vegetable mix seen here (image), thought to be named for a duke whose cook popularized it
PHRASE FARMING ($600) This porcine phrase means you’re being offered something but its real value is being hidden
MOUNTAINS ($1000) Referring to its shape, this peak on which Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer Statue stands has a name meaning “hunchback”
FRENCH COOKING TERMS ($600) From a French word meaning “to scrape” we get this term for a preparation of breadcrumbs & cheese
PHRASE FARMING ($600) This porcine phrase means you’re being offered something but its real value is being hidden
Y IS THE SECOND LETTER ($2000) From the Latin for “viper”, it’s a dragon used in heraldry, like the image seen here
TOWERS ($2000) One of the tallest buildings in the world, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower, is part of a complex adjacent to this holy site
SINGLE-NAMED CELEBRITIES ($2000) At 66, this supermodel was stunning at the 2021 Met Gala, her outfit called “A Ray of Light After All the Darkness” (image)
THAT’S JUST SCIENCE, MAN ($1600) With 1 being the softest on the Mohs scale of hardness, this substance consisting primarily of silica is the index mineral for 7
Sneak Peek clues — PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME
($200) Ulysses’ angry tirades
($400) Gerald’s bladed weapons
($600) Eisenhower’s scares
($800) Jimmy’s official founding documents
($1000) William Howard’s vertical gold mine passages
ANSWERS: show
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Great analysis in comments! It confirmed my understanding of the stupidity of the last bet by Margaret. She lost a ton of money and chance to be in the Tournament of champions.
The first round was competitive; the rest of the game was a travesty. Sloppy in many ways.
Clay got away with “Daylight Savings Time” when it’s Daylight Saving Time. Didn’t matter.
The wagering was insane. Maureen needed to bet only $2101 to take the lead and hope the champ was wrong. Margaret, as stated above, needed to bet only $8101 to protect herself. If they’d both wagered properly, Maureen wins with a bit over $8000, not $2200. She’s fairly quick on the buzzer, so it’s possible she might win again if she’s less careless in other ways.
Margaret pulled a Cliff Clavin. If Margaret bet $8,101, the recommended bet on the J! Archive website, then Margaret would have won. It was CRAZY to bet everything.
A tough FJ to be sure, and I could only come up with Lake Nicaragua.
So could Ken Jennings. He had to read off the card about Lake Managua.
Maybe “poor Clay” shouldn’t bragged about his “perfect ACT & SAT scores.” Hmmm. . .
If Marge only bet just 5000 dollars she would have won.
Tough final as we got a double stumper to start the week and the clue weren’t kind to Clay. As usual, nobody knows about geography.
Oh no Margaret! There’s no reason to bet more than $8101 there (unless you’re a SA geography scholar and even then it’s very marginal). She could have won the double stumper. Maureen’s wager was also suboptimal. When will they learn?!?
Once again just like last Monday we started off the week with only two players left in FJ! Poor Clay as he was struggling in the DJ round and I was hoping that he would get out of the negative before the buzzer hit and he did and took a shot with the last clue that they got to but he guessed wrong and it didn’t work out and that cost him to not be able to play in FJ!