Final Jeopardy: English Literature (4-17-23)
Here are some more clues from the 4/17/2023 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.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE ($1000) One British thermal unit = about 1,055 of these units of energy named for a British physicist
THE 12TH CENTURY ($1200) Poets like Chrétien de Troyes turned stories of knights, kings & chivalry into romances of this type of highly idealized “love”
WORLD GEOGRAPHY ($1200) The Attica region of Greece includes this plain, the site of a pivotal 490 B.C. battle
($1600) The 23 provinces of this South American country include Catamarca & Mendoza, home to the highest peak in the hemisphere
3-SYLLABLE VERBS ($1600) Pronounced one way it’s an adjective describing a close friend; pronounced as a verb, it means to imply indirectly or suggest
TV BEFORE & AFTER ($800) Brenda Walsh & Donna Martin join Dorit, Kyle & the other wealthy women on a Bravo reality show
ANSWER: show
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Sneak Peek clues — BODY LANGUAGE
($200) Many people with a herniated intervertebral one of these in their spine don’t feel symptoms
($400) Consisting of one systole & one diastole, this happens about 100,000 times a day in humans
($600) Buccal is an adjective referring to this part of your face
($800) This word referring to the sole comes before “fasciitis” in an injury of the foot
($1000) The bony socket that surrounds the eye is also called this; sounds space-y
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I knew FJ immediately, because I have a t-shirt with the first half of that phrase on it! Although my degree is a BS in biology, I also got a French minor, and had to take two upper level English classes. One was “Milton”. I really liked that class, and did really well in it, and the professor got me this t-shirt in town! One side has the quote, and the back has “VMI” on it! We were well known, in the local area, for being very mentally tough. It was “think or sink”, for sure.
As usual, got about half the TS correct.
$2,000 clues that should’ve been opened before the timer went off are “The 12th Century” and “Gods & Myths”. This happened in Double Jeopardy. Decent show today.
Actually, this is the fourth time that a reigning champion didn’t return. Today’s show was taped on February 7th during Ben’s illness. The last Friday’s show was aired on January 18th. J! Archive said that he will come back to the show to air it on the May 15th episode.
For future reference, “the Portuguese” was Robert Browning’s nickname for his wife, Elizabeth. As far as I know, he never wrote a poem addressing her as such, She wrote “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, which includes the famous “How do I love thee” sonnet
Thanks, VJ! I do so appreciate your research! This (apparently) little known fact was taught in every poetry or lit class in high schools and colleges all over the country in earlier days. Perhaps now a more elective class than mandatory(?) As respects Spoiler Talk, I think you and Jacob “wuz robbed”. I also wish Ben Chan a speedy recovery and congratulations to Daniel for his win.
Thanks, Sam. I do believe it’s true — they don’t teach much poetry in high school these days the way they used to in high school. My daughter’s English teacher told me they just do one unit on it so I guess they don’t cover much.
Fun Fact: we had three new players for the first time since the Season 37 premiere. Ben Chan became the fourth player to be unable to return immediately to defend their title having to return at a later date. First Priscilla Ball, Claudia Corriere, Zach Newkirk, and now Ben Chan.