Final Jeopardy: Words of the Year (4-11-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 4/11/2022 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.
IN MOM’S FREE TIME ($600) Tired of little heads going thunk, a daycare staff wanted something to prop kids up; Susan Henderson created this pillow
($1000) In 2016 Wisconsin mom Kristin Garvey made the first yard sign with these 5 words preceding various affirmations
CHEMICAL ELEMENTS ($800) As a gas, oxygen is colorless, but in liquid form it’s this color
METAPHORS ($1600) Based on a 1955 speech by a Fed head, slowing the economy is known as taking this away just as the party is getting started
LITERATURE ($2000) At the end of this first F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Amory Blaine is lonely, broke & traveling back to Princeton on foot
The contestants missed 3 clues in DOUBLE PRESIDENTIAL NAMERS:
($400) 17 & 20: This British-raised actor who played Peter Parker again in a 2021 surprise
($800) 43 & 35: This actor, an Oscar winner for “Cool Hand Luke” & a sidekick in “The Naked Gun”
($1200) 37 & 18 & borrowing Jimmy Carter’s middle initial, this actor
($1600) 22 & 1: This superstar saxophonist, Jr.
($2000) 42 & 5: This pioneer of bluegrass music
ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — IT’S A FACT
($200) Parade reported that taking this type of picture now causes “more deaths than shark attacks”
($400) Competing against 19-year-olds, this Jamaican was 16 when he set a junior world record in the 200 meters at 20.13 seconds
($600) The name for this part of your nose comes from the Latin for “fence”
($800) The Roman equivalent of this Greek goddess is Minerva
($1000) This yellow gastropod named for its resemblance to a fruit can move about 6 inches per minute
ANSWERS: show
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I am still not impressed by Mattea. She had a legit opponent today, and her FJ wager – when it might, finally, matter, was bad. I thought Ken put a good damper on her chatter, but, she still snuck it in. What surprised me was 5 clues unrevealed.
The F. Scott Fitzgerald TS – I’m embarrassed to admit that I got it wrong, as I have read the book! My excuse is that it was 30 years ago! (And, that wasn’t for school – just for my own edification.)
@Jason, I didn’t get that Fitzgerald novel either. Idk why. I previously promised myself I would remember the order of his novels. On the other hand, I did get that Kenilworth DD.
“She still snuck it in” — that is so funny!! My daughter said that for most of the show, I am typing so she can’t see how the chatter (or that “let’s give ’em something to talk about” wager yesterday) could possibly annoy me.
Just so everyone knows, I realize that the contestants were thinking of “bovine” when they went with “bov”, but since that was so patently obvious, I chose to link to the “bov” page on Wikipedia in case that king in Celtic mythology ever comes up.
Or maybe that place named Bov on the Jutland peninsula in Denmark will show up. (Jutland came up recently and it was a TS).
Or how about “broker’s opinion of value”? That might very well appear in an Acronyms category someday.
I think that when the contestants wrote BOV, they might’ve been thinking Bovine
No, I’m sure that they were thinking of bovis which would be the Latin word for cow.
I was SO hoping Michael would know the first DD (it wasn’t tough IF you knew that Transylvania was in Romania) and that he’d get the other one about the element (helped me to know the namesake of that element). I really thought he’d know the Final. It was very recent, and if you knew “vaca” (Spanish) or “vache” (French), words for “cow,” it made it that much easier.
I came up with VAC in FJ. Actually, it was close, but not quite close enough.
@Rick, you’re not alone by any means — others came to the same conclusion and I was wondering if we’d see that as a wrong response. Now I think it’s going to be one of those things, where you didn’t notice it before but now you’re gonna see it all over the place 😮
Congrats to mattea on her 5th win and now with a new streaker in her for April since Andrew He and Tyler Rhodes, this would mean that Maureen O Neill has been bumped off the list officially. Good to see another 5 game streaker since the 4 game curses in march. Still though I thought Mattea would be a victim of the four game curse but I guess not. bov could mean bovine which is an animal name
The last canadian to also win 5 games was Andrew Haringer and he played pretty well. So I hope she gets that sixth win