Final Jeopardy: U.S. Geography (4-24-23)
Here are some more clues from the 4/24/2023 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.
AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY ($1000) 3 of South Africa’s 9 provinces, making up more than half the country’s area, are called Eastern, Western & Northern this
NON-VIDEO GAMES ($200) These are the 2 pieces that can be moved to begin a chess game
See No. 1 and No. 2 on this list
($1000) In using your 40-piece army, a good st– um, a good plan in this game is to save your miners for the endgame
BEATLES “S”ONGS ($400) “Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about”
($600) “With a love like that you know you should be glad”
($1000) “Sunday’s on the phone to Monday, Tuesday’s on the phone to me”
GREEK HISTORY ($800) In 1967 Greece’s politicians worried about a coup by generals, but a group of this lower rank took over for 7 years
($1600) In 1864 Britain ceded to the Greeks these islands off Greece’s west coast that bespangle the sea of the same name
THE UNITED NATIONS ($800) To do public outreach, U.N. programs & agencies name these ambassadors, something the world could use more of
($1200) The iconic building here is home to this body, headed by the person who’s the UN’s main public face
($2000) A 2022 security council resolution maintained an arms embargo on this country in light of the threat from the Al-Shabab group
LOCAL BOY ($1200) From Kenosha, Wisc., this actor & Avengers movie mainstay is the grandson of an immigrant from Calabria, Italy
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — THAT’S AN ANIMAL SOUND
($200) Bottle stoppers & wild cherry cough medicine are procured from this part of a tree
($400) Social media can be hazardous to your career health! Winston Moss said he got fired as a coach in 2018 for one of the posts
($600) Turning the title around in a cheeky way, a 1965 Broadway musical was called “The” this “of the Greasepaint– The Smell of the Crowd”
($800) So you were supposed to have an operation on your foot & your appendix was removed?! That doctor can only be described as this
($1000) To die
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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You’ll notice that if Emma got it right, she would have lost to Dillon by $299.
Good point; I meant to mention that in my post last night.
Came in halfway through and saw Emma way behind. Great comeback. The two fairly easy DDs pushed her forward.
That was a good Final. I tried thinking of high-elevation capitals and came up with two that I thought might be the ones, and they were. Then I remembered that 10 summers ago, I participated in the AARP Senior Spelling Bee in Cheyenne. I flew to Denver, then high-tailed it to Cheyenne at 80+ mph in my little rental car on I-25 to try to get to the dinner reception on time. It was a 100+ mile drive.
Albany-Boston was a horrible guess, especially considering Denver lies in between the two correct ones.
OMG, those Beatles tunes were a pushover for this old fool. They were my very first concert, in 1964.
The Wharton novel was a pretty good movie; thought that would have been answered. The UN building clue was tricky because you had to know the name of the structure, not the person in charge. I’ve been there a couple of times, very long ago.
There actually is a little hamlet in New York State named Denver. lol
I visited the United Nations when I was 9 years old on a school trip. I was absolutely fascinated by the “translating” headphones. Until this show, however, I never knew that a building or administrative office is sometimes called a secretariat.
Surely you remember the great racehorse Secretariat. I was at Belmont the day he won the Triple Crown in 1973. He’s buried there now.
Yes Howard, I’ve heard of that horse, of course. A building, nein.
I’d always assumed the horse was named after the UN building, but never knew for sure. Wikipedia states the first set of names was rejected by the Jockey Club. The 2nd set submitted included Secretariat. It was suggested by the stud farm’s longtime secretary, who’d once worked for the secretariat at the League of Nations. Apparently the secretariat is the legislative arm of the UN, not just the name of the building. Always fun to learn new things.
A tough FJ to be sure. Actually, my older sister drove around quite a bit in those western states, and she did come up with Cheyenne (which was better than any of us could come up with). Kudos to my older sister for getting half the FJ right!