Final Jeopardy: Authors’ Afterlives (4-12-24)
Here are some more clues from the 4/12/2024 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.
STOCK PHOTOS, KINDA ($1000) This company’s stock started trading with its IPO on September 22, 1981
WE’VE GOT TODAY’S HITS ($400) With a Bananarama-riffic title, this Taylor Swift song dominated the fall in 2023, staying at No. 1 for weeks
($1000) People were “lovin on me”… well, not me, but him when he took that tune to No. 1
($1000) This governor resigned from politics 2 months after losing the 1876 presidential election to Rutherford B. Hayes
AMERICAN BIRDS ($800) If you’re birding west of the Rockies, you’re likely to catch sight of the California scrub type of this bird
($2000) John Cassin, from a Quaker family in Delaware County, became a famed ornithologist in this city & named a vireo after it
THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT ($2000) The star of a 2023 HBO doc, this poet & her work “Black Judgment” helped take the Black Arts Movement to national prominence
DROP IN… ($1600) From a word meaning penniless to get this word for a liquid in chemistry like an ester or ketone
The players missed 3 clues in THAT’S SO CRINGE:
($200) It can mean to lack dexterity but it doesn’t lack for Ws, with 2; well, this is…
($400) If you’re sensitive to a certain touch, you’ll giggle, but this adjective also describes a tricky situation that needs a sensitive touch
($600) From the Latin for “death”, it can indeed mean to render necrotic but it’s more associated as a word meaning to embarrass
($800) Spelled differently, one of the moon’s is waxing crescent, but for category purposes, it means to dismay or confuse
($1000) Anxious? Uncomfortable? You’re this 3-word phrase that sounds like a sick military command
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: FADS
($200) This groovy type of shirt was especially popular around the time of Woodstock
($400) Here’s our version of this big fad of the 1970s, googly eyes optional
($600) At the height of this craze a man dashed across the stage during the Oscars “showing his shortcomings”, as David Niven put it
($800) Focus now; a few years back these gizmos were all the rage
($1000) One of the more worthy fads, the Ice Bucket Challenge launched in 2014 raised $115 million to fight this disease
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Well, I picked HG Wells for FJ based on the clues, and I don’t think that it was such a bad guess.
Forgot to ask–at the end of the show, Ken said something about “it’s going to be hard to keep it a secret from the kids” (or something similar). Any idea what that was about? Alison mentioned a daughter and a cat in her interview but nothing else that would have triggered Ken’s quip.
@Howard, in his intro, Ken mentioned that Alison managed to keep her Jeopardy! appearance a secret from her 3 kids and added “the cat may be out of the bag today.” Yesterday, Alison’s chat was about kissing an alligator in New Orleans, so maybe that was a different tidbit on her card or a conversation that took place offstage
Thanks, VJ. I also emailed my sister, and she gave me the down-low.
I’m embarrassed to say, I said “Robert Fulton”. It’s even more so, because I’m a BIG railroad buff, and the DeWitt Clinton was one of the first railroad locomotives!
I thought Sarah was going to give a good fight. She started out strong, and I thought that it was being quick on the buzzer. But, when Alison found her groove, it was on! Alison’s wagers were prudent.
I got FJ, even though I’ve never read any Verne. Mais, comme mon ami Howard, le nom en Français m’est aidé!
Concur on the player-friendly clues. That’s a bit refreshing!
The French name “Michel” handed me FJ on une assiette d’argent.
Another powerful performance by Alison after a slightly slow start.
Those of us from NY, especially upstate, had a much better chance of knowing the father of the Erie Canal. And the one who lost to Tilden was tough, except players are usually well-versed in presidential winners and losers, and this one was famous for winning the popular vote. “Delaware County” somewhat gave away the city they sought. The cringe words were tricky, except for the one about sensitive to touch.
These regular game clues are so much more player-friendly than the killers they always seem to use in the tournaments.
Oops, meant to say the “one who lost to Hayes” and not say which governor it was.