Final Jeopardy: Statues (4-25-24)
Here are some more clues from the 4/25/2024 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.
GORGES COUNTRIES ($800) Aare Gorge
($1000) Olduvai Gorge
REALITY SHOW HOSTS ($600) Julie Chen Moonves has done double duty as a host of “The Talk” & of this summer reality show
BRO-POURRI ($1000) This outlaw band of siblings including Grat, Bob & Emmett were cousins of the cutthroat Younger brothers
BELOW DECK: SAILING NOVEL ($1200) The crew of the Ghost can’t wait for the season to end in “The Sea-Wolf” by this author; Captain Wolf Larsen is a bit much
($1600) The crew had some huge issues with Captain Queeg in this 1952 Pulitzer winner, & I can’t wait to see the reunion show!
VOCABULARY ($1600) A fiasco, disaster or collapse, it’s the French title of Emile Zola’s novel about Germany’s defeat of France in 1871
FRENCH HISTORY ($1200) In 1967 in Montreal this French president said “Vive le Quebec libre”, or “Long live free Quebec”; Canada wasn’t amused
($1600) A 2023 coup backed by protests took over this country southeast of Algeria, and French troops fighting Islamist terrorists said adieu
LET’S ROCK & ROLL! ($1200) The title of this, Chuck Berry’s first hit, reportedly came from a mascara box left on a windowsill in a recording studio
($1200) Bikini Kill singer Kathleen Hanna was an early icon of this great 1990s movement fusing feminism & punk rock
($1600) These guys led by Booker T. Jones backed Stax records star like Otis Redding & had hits of this own like “Time is Tight”
D.C. ($1600) The only president laid to rest in D.C., he’s entombed in the Washington National Cathedral
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: TOP 10 BABY NAMES
($200) Maybe acting is in the future for kids with this name, No. 1 for females; at least it was for Ms. Colman & Ms. Wilde
($400) Maybe acting is in the future for kids with this name, No. 1 for males, at least it was for Mr. Hemsworth & Mr. Cunningham
($600) It was No. 2 for males, or should we say “There went in two and two unto” this name “as God had commanded
($800) No. 7 for girls, this 3-letter palindromic name will be one of the first call alphabetically when roll is taken
($1000) This No. 2 name on the list for baby girls was the No. 1 name for Jane Austen in an 1815 novel
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The first Greek-sounding capital I thought of was Indianapolis, so left it there.
Oh, those youngsters! They didn’t know Booker T’s band or Chuck Berry’s hit based on a makeup brand. In fairness, the recent “Music from 10 Years Ago” category was a total washout for me.
No one knowing the French president in 1967 was pretty unforgivable.
The Capt. Queeg novel was a terrific movie with Humphrey Bogart.
I watched that Julie Chen show the first summer it was on, which pretty much soured me on reality TV forever.
I agree, Howard. It always blows my mind when they don’t know the big tall French prez of the 60s. He was France’s president while we went through 3 (Eisenhower, Kennedy and LBJ). He resigned his office a few months after Nixon’s inauguration. This is history not oldies music.
I didn’t expect them to know Booker T’s band but I thought Chuck Berry’s songs are still pretty well-known.
Concur with the dead time. Amy isn’t really lighting the world on fire. However, she is far from the first “cooler” we’ve seen.
I missed Final. I thought of Athens, as in Georgia, so, I went with Atlanta. Oh well!
Lots of dead time–Alex must be spinning in his grave!
In reality, there were games galore with unplayed clues when Alex was host and just as many triple stumpers.
Also in reality, Alex was cremated. He doesn’t have a grave to spin in.
I get the unplayed clues, but don’t know about the TS. However, I believe it’s the wistful hagiography that says it was “better in the good ol’ days”! I prefer to defer to Billy Joel, though!
For the second Thursday in a row, we got a triple stumper in the final thanks to that pesky geography clue.