Final Jeopardy: The Western Hemisphere (4-21-25)
Here are some more clues from the 4/21/2025 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.
STATE NICKNAMES ($400) Meant to distinguish Alabama from the rest of the South, it went on the state’s license plates in 1955
($1000) “The Beef State”, it’s home to more cattle than people, with its 6 million cows outnumbering humans 3 to 1
“WA”, “WA”! ($1000) A Polynesian woman, or a female surfer
“X” MEN ($2000) He wrote “Parade’s End”, informed by his own experience in World War I, where he fought in the Battle of the Somme
AFRICAN HISTORY ($400) In 1952 Oliver Tambo & this man created South Africa’s first black law practice
($1600) An effort with help from Jimmy Carter reduced African cases of the disease named for this parasite from 840,000 to 14
THAT’S SO GANGSTER (MOVIE) ($1200) This 1991 film about gang violence in South Central L.A. helped popularize a slang contraction for an inner-city area
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: SCIENCE FICTION
($200) Mark Watney in this novel says, “I don’t want to come off as arrogant here, but ‘m the best botanist on the planet”
($400) The title refers to cataclysms that can last for years in N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo award winner “The Fifth” this (4 is more standard)
($600) Also known as mélange, the mystical substance created by Arrakis’ sandworms helps in space navigation
($800) “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch” & “The Minority Report” are works from this writer whose middle name is Kindred
($1000) After the “bugs” attack Buenos Aires, Johnnie Rico is off to Klendathu for revenge in this classic
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Seems as if I missed another good game. Second day in a row I got the middle DD and FJ. Have known Bolivia has 2 capitals (one fewer than South Africa) forever. Brazil’s capital was Rio till they built Brasilia out of the jungle. Only stumpers I knew were Alabama’s plate and the 1991 film.
I was astonished that two of them came up with Brazil at all. Maja obviously thought better of that. It’s a confusing topic in some ways but, still, I can’t recall ever hearing Brazil mentioned with 2 capitals.
I don’t know VJ. Actually, Sucre is the internationally recognized capital of Bolivia, and not La Paz. In fact, Sucre is specifically mentioned in that country’s constitution as the being the capital of that nation.. This was why I immediately discounted Bolivia in my response. IMHO, I think that the writers had pulled a fast one in that respect.
Yes, Rick, you are right about the constitution only naming Sucre, but I wouldn’t say the writers pulled a fast one. I don’t know about Sucre being internationally recognized. Some articles make the distinction that La Paz is the seat of government while others, including Spanish Wikipedia, call it the de facto capital. So I guess they could say they didn’t specify “official”.
The same situation exists in Chile. Santiago is the official capital and Valparaiso is the legislative capital, but Chile rarely gets listed as having 2 capitals.
As I said, the topic is confusing.
1/3 on DD and missed FJ. I said Brazil. I didn’t know that Bolivia had another capital besides La Paz (which had been drilled into the minds of anyone in public school). I have never even heard of Sucre before this show.
Liam bugged me with that $5 wager. Like the $500 ones, anything that jumbles the numbers affects my sensibilities. Oh well!
Liam was pretty savvy in his wagers during the DDs. As for the FJ, I quickly came up with Bolivia, but then I discounted Bolivia since I was sure that the country had only one capital (Sucre). Anyways, I then went for broke, and went with Paraguay.
The name of the book the movie “Goodfellas” was based on is “Wiseguy” by Nicholas Pileggi. They changed it partly because of the “Wiseguy” TV series starring Ken Wahl.
I don’t think goodfellas was slang for a connected guy before that movie. It was wiseguy.