Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Authors (4-22-24)
Here are some more clues from the 4/22/2024 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.
ALSO A BASKETBALL TERM ($1000) Type of grant in which the federal government gives an annual sum of money to a state or local government to aid in a project
SECRETS OF THE OCTOPUS ($400) An octopus bearing the name of this ocean can grow from the size of a grain of rice to the size of a bus, measured armtip to armtip
LIBRARIES ($00) This Ivy Leaygue university’s Nassau Hall once housed the school’s library; since 1948 Firestone library has served as its main library
6-SYLLABLE WORDS ($1600) From the Latin for “conversation”, it’s an informal or regional expression like “bodacious”
($2000) Meaning “tireless”, it was the first British ship sunk at the 1916 Battle of Jutland
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($200) In an 1862 work he is chained by the neck & taken to prison in Toulon after stealing some bread
($400) In this nonfiction book, Helen Prejean writes to “Elmo Patrick Sonnier…Death Row, Louisiana State Penitentiary”
($600) In this Dickens work Abel Magwitch tells Pip he was sentenced to 14 years in prison
($800) In this Donn Pearce novel, later turned into a Paul Newman film, the title convict bets Society Red he can eat 50 eggs
($1000) His confession to 2 murders & his good deeds help limit this 19th century Russian character’s prison term to just 8 years
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Haha, good on y’all!! I was “all in’ on Margaret Mitchell, myself! Great minds, and all that!
Nam acquitted himself well. He did the thing of grinding out the responses to build up his money. That’s a good trait, versus gambling on hitting DDs.
Tough FJ. Plath was a terrible choice. I first heard of Moms Mabley in the 1960s, but had no good guess. Briefly thought of Margaret Mitchell and Alice Walker, but discounted them quickly.
Knew several stumpers. 2.5 Men actor (I watched it for 12 years); the non-Obi Wan actor; the Ivy League university; the “tireless” 6-syllable ship.
Plath was certainly no worse than Hansberry. Aside from the fact that they were both kids in the 30s; Hansberry’s most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun, is a play.
After Ken told Nam he was very close, he said “Moms Mabley was a famous African-American comedian” so Ken must have thought Hansberry was “very close” because Hansberry was African-American.
omg! I forgot he said that. How ignorant.
All I could come up with in FJ was Margaret Mitchell, and Moms Mabley didn’t ring a bell.
And we start the week with a double stumper as today’s final was a tough one.
A double stumper to start off the week. After the 1st half of the J! Rd, Elly fell apart & didn’t have too many opportunities to buzz in, so she automatically has to leave w/ $2K.