Final Jeopardy: Literary Quotes (4-26-16)
10 more triple stumpers from the 4-26-2016 Jeopardy! match.
WORDS IN CHARLES DICKENS NOVELS (they were looking for one word from the title but it was okay if you gave the whole title)
($600) An offspring
($800) Denotes a company co-owned by its investors, who share in its funding & profits
JUST DEAL! ($1,000) The croupier deals the cards in this casino game whose French name means “railroad”, referring to the speed of the game
RHYME HERE ($1,000) North Chelsea, Massachusetts was renamed this
THE BROAD ($1200) Robert Therrien’s “Under the Table” makes you feel like these two literary characters, a man created in 1726 and a girl from 1865.
U.S. GEOGRAPHY ($1,200) The largest area of sand dunes in the U.S. lies mainly in this state, north of the Platte River
($2,000) This Alaskan island group named for a Russian trader has more than 200 bird species in addition to its famous fur seals
LAST NAMES ($400) A 1970s president and the current Secretary of Defense
COMICS’ BOOK ($400) His books include “New Rules” and “The New New Rules”
($1200) Her 2011 book “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?” was a bestselling project
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Round 1 Categories: Ankara Babies – Words In Charles Dickens Novel Titles – Just Deal! – Rhyme Here – My Country – ‘Tis “of the” Movie
Now, we know there’s “poetic license”–plays on words, etc.– at work in naming the Jeopardy categories. And we’re not “hysterical” about this: But somebody tell us, was “Ankara Babies” the Jeopardy writers’ predilection to inject those ever subtle “questions” that seem to have some nexus to current, controversial “things political”? After all, would we be that off in making the connection that “Ankara Babies” was their cutesy allusion to “Anchor Babies”?
I never really thought of that connection. What I was shaking my head about in that category was Alex reading that lullaby clue in what sounded like a Russian accent to me, and I also thought some might be offended by the “go to sleep or I’ll kill you” sentiment.
Yes, I was also taken aback by the words to the lullaby. I didn’t find it amusing.
Since they attached a nationality to the category, I thought it was pretty harsh and esp using the word “kill” directed at a baby. Bad joke.
But it’s not like we don’t have some lullabies and nursery rhymes that involve physical harm. Rock-a-Bye Baby, Ladybug, Ladybug, Fly Away Home and Piggy on the Railway come to mind. We go with Brahms and 1-2-3-4-5, Once I Caught a Fish Alive.
And let’s not forget Three Blind Mice
This conversation makes me smile, thinking of a similar discussion I had with VJ a while ago, when I mentioned the mean French song Alouette. 🙂
I remember that, Cece. LOL. We were also talking some other gory folk songs that evolved into children’s song
@Cece, the twins were here today. They really like this particular Bunny Foo Foo video where the good fairy is a man with a gruff voice.
Hare today, Goon tomorrow. LOL. Whoever thought this up?
The words are a little different than the way I first learned it though. It was —
Little Foo Foo Rabbit, I don’t like your attitude
Scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head.
42/58 here.
Jerry had a bit of a hard time concealing his frustration today, didn’t he? — particularly, in that WW2 category when Stephanie was beating him to the buzzer. He slapped the podium loud enough to hear it, then she got it wrong. He got it right and the next clue he chose was his DD.
I was torn between not wanting Jerry to get that Daily Double wrong because he bet it all and wanting him to get it wrong to see his reaction. After Trebek did the Dracula impression, he had a little hissy, In any event, he had to know he was wrong even before the impression. He didn’t have a complete answer