Final Jeopardy: Hollywood History (4-26-23)
Here are some more clues from the 4/26/2023 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.
HISTORICAL POTPOURRI ($600) A 1756 incident saw numerous Europeans die in this dungeon in India
A NATION OF VODKA BRANDS ($600) Sobieski
($1000) Referring to a line of latitude that runs through it, 42 Below
WHISTLEBLOWERS ($1600) Sherron Watkins’ whistleblowing led to the collapse of Enron as well as this “A”ccounting firm
COMEDIANS ($800) April 26, 2023 is the 90th birthday of this funny lady whose Saturday night skits included “Rancid Harvest” & “Went with the Wind”
($1200) Inducting him with just 3 others in a new Comedy Hall of Fame, John Mulaney said this “Fisher King” star never once phoned it in
($2000) In 2023, he hosted the Golden Globe Awards which returned to broadcast TV after a time-out
UNGULATES ($1200) The spear-like canine teeth of the collared peccary gave the animal this other name, an Olympic event plus a final “A”
($1600) Arni is another word for this ungulate with a liquid in its 2-word name, tipping–& possibly breaking–the scales at over 2,500 pounds
THE PARENT COMPANY ($1600) Its name implies one simple machine, but this big multinational holds the mayo with Hellmann’s
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Sneak Peek clues — CONFIDENCE
($200) This synonym for confidence can be found before: “healer” & after “Defender of the”
($400) Ask with confidence in this classic game “Was it Plum with the dagger in the study?”; you might be wrong, but be confident!’
($600) Facing a trial in 399 B.C., this philosopher was confident he was a good man & could not be harmed (he could, & he certainly was)
($800) A Shakespeare character “does he not hold up his head, as it were, and” this 5-letter confident walk “in his gait?”
($1000) With “each depositor insured to at least 250,000”, this.gov says its “official teller sign…is a symbol of confidence”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Lots of similarity to yesterday’s show. 5-figure totals entering FJ, then all 3 crashed and burned. Marx Bros came to mind immediately, but I knew none had died in 1927. Thought it might be one of the MGM trio, but no.
Very surprised Jesse didn’t nail the capital of Turkey. As Jason said, many of the TS clues were gettable. Sobieski; Lawrence novel; tobacco movie; 90th birthday lady; Fisher King star; liquid ungulate; mayonnaise company.
I knew the birthday lady right off the bat because I always check the oldest person on the daily birthday list. Even so, “Went with the Wind” would have told me. That show was comedy gold, esp. Harvey Korman!
I meant to send out a Happy Birthday tweet to her, too, but I got sidetracked.
We all came up with Marx for FJ, but I sure had some doubts. You know, the MO of this one was the same as yesterday’s FJ as I seem to recall that both of these FJs were used before. Well, as long as these two keep stumping the contestants and most TV viewers, I suppose I wouldn’t have done things differently.
So, Johanna knew neither TV History nor Hollywood History. Al Jolson, born Asa Yoelson, was the son of a cantor, IIRC. The Marx Brothers (of whom there were 5), were still a vaudeville troop at that time. I said Warner as soon as I could. Although I knew that there were 4 brothers, the only one I knew was Jack.
That reminds me of some other brothers. If there’s a clue about the Ringling Brothers, there were 5 of them; again, I can only name one, John Ringling.
It was a moderately lower scoring affair. I got, as per usual, about half the TS correct. But, Sobieski? Really? And Ken says “apparently”? Being half descended from that nationality, “He had thirteen letters in his name, and no vowels!”
Hopefully, Jesse can string a few together.
When I was about 9, many years ago, I saw “The Jolson Story” movie. You nailed his name and his father’s occupation.
99.9% of the Facebook comments and emails I read daily misspell troupe/trouper as troop/trooper. The latter are military people or state police. Or Cub/Girl scouts. The former are traveling actors.
Ah, yes, I totally bagged that! The worst thing is, I knew that about the troupe! How embarrassing!!
That was a tough final as we got another triple stumper. Pretty sure William Weyser would say darn those daily doubles to Jesse.
Yes, but maybe, the 3rd time will be the charm with the Daily Doubles for Jesse, and maybe, Final Jeopardy! will be kind to at least 1 person tomorrow.
Oh I’m sorry, I completely forgot that last week on Wednesday we had 1,200 winner. So that means that 2,600 is the second lowest payday of the season. This is the second Wednesday in a row with paydays that is lower than 5,000.
For the second day in a row, we have another triple stumper. Yesterday nobody got it right on Television History and today nobody got it right on Hollywood History. And Jesse winds up with only 2,600 which is lowest payday of the season. But he has a chance to earn a lot more money than 2,600 on tomorrow’s game.
How can this be the lowest, Kevin? Just last week, Devin won on Wednesday with a mere $1,200. I remember my daughter saying Devin got less than second place!