Final Jeopardy: Oscars (4-18-23)
Here are some more clues from the 4/18/2023 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.
LET’S GUESS YOUR WAIT ($200) Chill out! Waiting idiomatically, you “cool your” these lower body parts
SAVOIR FAIR ($1600) A yearly science fair is sponsored by a university in this French city that hosted the 1968 Winter Olympics
($2000) In 2022 one of France’s grandest Renaissance fairs, the Roi de l’Oiseau, celebrated this writer & his creation Gargantua
THE OTTO CLUB ($2000) Formed in the 14th century, this elite army corps of the Ottoman Empire had a name from Turkish, meaning “new troops”
TV MOMS ($1600) Brianne Howey: “I grew up with a single mom & love playing this title single mom to Ginny on a Netflix comedy drama”
DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL’S DICTIONARY ($800) This variety of prose narrative: “a short story padded”
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — U.S. + CANADIAN POSTAL ABBREVS.
($200) MASK
($400) CANS
($600) NEON
($800) ARAB
($1000) IAMB
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Very strong race down the stretch for Deb. I thought writer Daniel would run that First Novel category, but Deb nailed most of them. But I was surprised none of them knew George Smiley’s creator. (Haven’t read his books, but knew the character. And that famous author’s name is a pseudonym.)
Didn’t hurt to know that JW was lauded for his 90th birthday last year. But pretty easy FJ anyway after a long run of toughies.
That French Olympics city was tough, but we sports junkies remember stuff like that. I winced when Deb pronounced the “x” in Chamonix. “Cool your (blank)” was a low-$ softball of a clue.
Didn’t matter in the long run, but “Dynastic war” was a near giveaway on that DD clue.
Daniel has only one wrong in the show today, because of the Daily Double blanking.
Here is another interesting source I found for the “cool your” TS that connects it with horses.
As a very old equestrian, I loved this!!! On a completely different note – modern age slang was “cool your jets” and prison was once referred to as a “cooler” which was also the name of a movie starring William Macy as a casino employee hired to break up a customer’s winning streak. (Sorry but I’m on my third cup of coffee)