Final Jeopardy: Historic Figures (4-27-23)
Here are some more clues from the 4/27/2023 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.
HISTORIC WIVES ($1000) The outspoken wife of President Nixon’s attorney general, she was the Southern socialite who turned Watergate whistleblower
TV DRAMA ($800) Netflix’ “Cursed” centers on Nimue, a gifted girl destined to become this Arthurian sword giver
READY TO WEAR ($800) Appropriately named, this straw hat with a flat top & a flat brim was a must-have at turn-of-the-century regattas
TAKE A TOUR ($1000) Fashion fit for royalty is one of the specialty tours offered at this palace in Honolulu, once home to Hawaii’s monarchs
“A_B_C_D” ($1000) If you “go” this 7-word phrase, you’ve exceeded what your obligations require
WHERE THE “H” IS THAT? ($2000) This ancient Egyptian city lived up to its name as the seat of worship of Re, the sun god
A FINE WINE FILM ($2000) This actor starred in “A Good Year”, in which he inherits a vineyard, & narrated the documentary “Red Obsession” about Bordeaux
TANKS FOR THE MEMORIES ($1200) In 2023 Germany agreed to send its battle tanks named for this creature to help Ukraine
PRODUCE: WE HAVE NAMES ($800) Named for a French horticulturist, the Bosc pear was once Beurré Bosc, beurré meaning this quality
($1600) Grower Henri Pascal found superior stalks of this veggie & the familiar dip-&-crunch variety is named for him
RECENT LITERARY BIOGRAPHY ($2000) “I Used to Live Here Once” is about this author, who like the heroine of her “Wide Sargasso Sea” had Caribbean roots
4-LETTER BEFORE & AFTER ($400) Oddly, the Colonel’s recipes are overseen by this agency along with Americans’ TVs & cell phones
ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — SPOT THE MAMMAL
($200) bobolink, bonobo, betta
($400) impala, ibis, indigo
($600) nutria, nudibranch, natterjack
($800) orb weaver, oystercatcher, okapi
($1000) adder, amberjack, aye-aye
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Kudos to Eric for not only coming from behind, but nailing what I thought was a very difficult final.
I though someone, especially the librarian, would know Eliot’s career-defining work. Jesse was not a strong champion. “Big Willie” wasn’t a dead giveaway, but not that hard. Nixon’s AG’s wife was a big news source 50 years ago, but more recently was portrayed in a cable series by Julia Roberts, so maybe someone should have known that. Usually at least one contestant knows enough French to answer a clue like “beurre'” which Ken mispronounced as “boor” instead of “boor-ray.” The Colonel’s recipes clue was pretty much a gimme, but at that point they didn’t quite get what the format of that category was.
In the A_B-C-D category, the answer “ascorbic acid”, doesn’t quite seem to fit. Am I missing something, or is that first “c” in “ascorbic” not out of sequence?
I think the response was “Ascorbic acid.” Hence, a & b in ascorbic and c & d in acid. If I remember correctly Ken said the letters had to be in order. I don’t think “Ascorbic” alone would have been acceptable. Imo, this was Jeopardy Clue writers being tricky and trying to trip up the contestants.
This is the one I thought that was tricky in that category and resulted in a triple stumper: “Above and beyond the call of duty.” It had to be exactly 7 words.
I thought they were ‘scraping the bottom of the barrel’ with that category 🤣🤣🤣
I got Final immediately, for a funny reason. The USS Saladin is an absolute workhorse in my Star Trek game.
Again, as usual, I got about half the TS correct.
What is the answer for $600 spot the mammal? I think Jeopardy has the answer wrong.
It was the first one, Michael, the 5-letter one. I had the middle one in the answers by mistake but I just fixed that.
So far this week, we have payouts that are less than 10,000. Jesse continued his struggles on the Daily Doubles and that’s how the scores were so low. But we have our 4th new champ in a row. We’ll see if we can have our first 2 day champ of the week.