Final Jeopardy: Antidisestablishmentarianism (4-1-21)

Here are some more clues from the 4/01/2021 Jeopardy! game:

U.S. GEOGRAPHY ($1000) This hilly region of western Massachusetts is home to the Tanglewood Music & Jacob’s Pillow dance festivals

SCIENCE & SCIENTISTS ($600) The element lawrencium & a lab at this California university are named for Nobel Prize winner Ernest Lawrence

1971: 50 YEARS AGO ($800) The USSR’s Salyut 1 was the first of these aloft; sadly, its only residents perished on the return trip

($1600) This first daughter with a name close to her mom’s was a June bride (image)

EXPLORING AUSTRALIA ($2000) In the 1830s Thomas Livingstone Mitchell named parts of what would soon be this southeast state Australia Felix, or Happy Australia

IMMORAL LINE ($1600) This Bard royal says he must kill his brother’s sons & marry the daughter, as he’s “so far in blood that sin will pluck on sin”

CURRENCIES ($400) Costa Rica uses a currency bearing the last name of this sailor in Spanish

The players got all the clues in APRIL FOOL!
($200) In 1998 Burger King ran an ad touting its new “left-handed” version of this signature burger
($400) We hope math teachers weren’t fooled by the rumor that Alabama voted to change this to 3.0, a “biblical value”
($600) In 1996 Taco Bell claimed it bought this historic landmark in Philadelphia & was renaming it appropriately
($800) In 1980 the BBC (those cheeky Brits!) said this landmark, to keep up with the times, would be given a digital readout
($1000) This inventor’s reputation was high in 1878 when a newspaper said his new machine turned soil into cereal & water into wine

ANSWERS: show

Sneak Peek clues — OVERLAPS
($400) Tube for transporting petroleum that plays defense on the gridiron
($800) A car crash induced set of false teeth
($1200) Ontario’s capital city’s long narrow sled
($1600) St. Patrick’s 3-lobed plant that’s a musical style revived by bands like the Stray Cats
($2000) Atlantic food fish that runs the circus

ANSWERS: show

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13 Responses

  1. Dale T Gogan says:

    Note: on yesterday, April 1, 2021, the question about the first day of the Triduum in the Catholic Church is Thursday, Not Good Friday! One contestant said Thursday and was marked wrong. The Triduum begins on the evening of Thursday with a liturgy, and traditionally some people stay for a vigil until the church closes later in the night, unless the pandemic has changed that.

    • VJ says:

      Dale, I believe you were watching a rerun of the 2-28-2020 game yesterday. If you reread the clue (the first Daily Double), you will see it says the first FULL day. That’s why Thursday was wrong.

  2. Harry Stoffer says:

    Has FedEx ever been the RIGHT answer to Final Jeopardy?

  3. Jere Gauss says:

    Got my fifth Final Jeopardy! “skunk” of 2021. Since I learned to spell what was the longest word in most common-English dictionaries of the time as a third-grader, I also looked up the meaning. So, since that had been with me since I was eight-years old, I had no trouble interpreting the clue and determining the correct response as “What is the Anglican Church?” That response is equivalent in terminology to “What is the Church of England?” so it qualifies as a correct one.

  4. Lou says:

    An easy final, but this is the first time that I have seen such a long word category for final today. Did you anticipate that this was going to be used today VJ? Hope your health has improved so far.

    • VJ says:

      No Lou, I haven’t thought about that word since I was a teenager when the old folks loved to pop out with words like that and challenge kids to spell them. ha ha ha (very funny — not)

      One thing I don’t like very much is the skipping all over the board so I couldn’t help but notice that they played that Overlaps category all the way through today after Dr. Oz said the false teeth clue was clever.

  5. coco14 says:

    Sorry but the final was not a tough one –

  6. DC says:

    VJ,

    Not to be a nit-picker, but the last DD question should be a smaller number (without my revealing the number to those who haven’t watched the show yet).

    Thanks for the health update … always wishing you the best.

    • VJ says:

      That’s fine, DC. I appreciate the heads up. I thought that looked weird and meant to it up but I fell asleep. lol (or maybe omg!)

  7. Lou says:

    Honestly, I think this fed ex joke is getting a bit stale here. It has been used once already before, but twice, it’s not needed. But congrats to Scott on his win today and at least that reversal helped everyone. This FJ category as a whole is not used very often, VJ. You do remember Ken using that FJ response right after his final game? Well, I feel in my opinion that Emily isn’t taking the game seriously here.

  8. Ismael Gomez says:

    Tough final as we got another triple stumper.