Final Jeopardy: Great Brits (4-15-24)
Here are some more clues from the 4/15/2024 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.
PLACES THAT ARE ALSO FIRST NAMES ($1000) The Sahara’s Tibesti Mountains & the N’Djamena Grand Mosque are sites in this African country
THE VOICE OF TELEVISION ($400) After Cheryl, voiced by Judy Greer on this spy cartoon series, is reminded she hates babies, she replies, “Just baby people”
($600) Paul F. Tompkins gave voice to Mr. Peanutbutter, a dog with gubernatorial aspirations on this Netflix show
IN THE DICTIONARY ($2000) It’s the type of item seen here; government-funded arts & crafts in the ’30s led to the newer meaning, wasteful project
A LOVE FOR BOOKS ($2000) His novel “Women in Love” recounts the lives & romances of the Brangwen sisters
ROAD SCHOLARLY ($2000) Some see this undersea road off Florida’s coast as evidence of the lost continent of Atlantis
THAT BAND’S AN INSTITUTION ($800) Formed in 1976, they’re turning the Venetian in Vegas into a Love Shack with a 2024 residency
($1600) In 2024 this band set a record with its 59th Top 40 album, a 1985 live performance featuring “Truckin”‘
($2000) This, I call it this, that this “One Step Beyond” & “Our House” band formed in 1976 is still touring with its original members
“P”EOPLE ($1200) This silent movie star of films like “Coquette” & “Tess of the Storm Country” was known as “America’s Sweetheart”
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($200) A footstool can be called one of these, like a certain empire
($400) Let’s not procrastinate because, according to a proverb, these 2 things “wait for no man”
($600) An oda was a room in this type of house for women; an odalisque was a female slave or concubine in one
($800) Bell Labs is now part of this Finnish telecommunications company
($1000) This 3-word Irish phrase basically means “Ireland Forever”
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A tough FJ as I was never aware that Sir Isaac Newton (of all people) had served in Parliament. Actually, I was only amazed that two of the contestants had managed to come up with the correct response. As usual, a great game!
Poor Adam stood like a statue throughout the first round. At least he made it to FJ. Which stumped me entirely. Ran names through my head but couldn’t settle on one. Tough but fair question, though.
Come on, “P”eople! You didn’t know America’s sweetheart long before Meg Ryan? Or the current head of the Fed Reserve? Joshua’s boo-boo (opium instead of tea? Eww) gave control to Alison, who picked the DD clue next. It was an easy one and gave her a whopping lead. She was terrific, nailing all 3 DDs and FJ.
“Women in Love” is pretty well-known; thought one of them would get it. I wanted to gag when no one knew the “Love Shack” and “Truckin'” bands. And the words in the oda/odalisque clue all but gave away the answer.
The “More Clues on page 2” link didn’t work, but clicking on the numeral below did.
oda turned up in crossword puzzles frequently when I used to do them. That was a long time ago though. I got bored with crosswords and switched to cryptograms
Ah, I’ve done crosswords for 60 years now. Ten years ago I was doing 13 a week, now I’m down to three, including the Sunday NYT which takes well under an hour. Very familiar with the —– room clue. I like cryptograms but haven’t done one in ages. Our Sunday paper does have one, though.
Ken must have thought the image was Venice because of the bridge.
Too many unanswered clues. Not a good look. And no, Adam didn’t get in the first round at all. I almost forgot he was there.
Wow! Nice game. Did Adam even ring in for round 1?
Alison revealed more, including being married, so maybe that will tamp down the creepers.
I ran the category for “That Band’s an Institution”. However, to my mild horror, I zoned on “America’s Sweetheart”. I mean, that is 100% right up my alley. Also, she was one of the founders of United Artists, along with Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Sir Charles Chaplin, and David Wark (D.W.) Griffith.
That reversal on the fly was possibly the fastest I’ve ever seen. That’s quite a humbler for Ken. I wonder if he was “caught up in the moment” when he accepted Alison’s response. But, they took the money away from her in a flash, anyhow. I would like to have seen the judges at that moment. For all my cursing of Mayim, I don’t recall something so gaudy.
Oh, and, a late coda: I got FJ. I mean, who was a greater Brit than Sir Isaac? I’ve heard it ascribed to him, although I don’t know if it’s apocryphal – “If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants”. Now, that’s humble!