Final Jeopardy: U.S. Landmarks (4-28-23)
Here are some more clues from the 4/28/2023 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.
INSIDE JOB ($800) In a Sholem Aleichem story, this beleaguered dairyman asks why God never let up on Job, “for even a moment”
($1000) “B” is for this legendary creature in Job; “his bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron”
SPORTS GOATS ($200) This long-gone Yankee slugger still tops the career wins above replacement list at baseball-reference.com
($800) This ’40s & ’50s welterweight & middleweight champ topped a “Ring” magazine’s list of greatest boxers
($1000) In 1912 this country’s king told Jim Thorpe he was the world’s greatest athlete; Jim is said to have replied, “Thanks, king”
“HOLD” UP ($600) In “Sunset Boulevard” this Oscar-winning actor played a screenwriter, in “Network” he’s a TV executive
THE 3-DIGIT YEARS ($1200) The pyramid of the magician Uxmal, a city built on this peninsula in the mid-first millennium
($1600) Around 970 Al-Azhar University was established in this North African capital as a center of Islamic learning
($2000) After the fall of Rome, this Eastern branch of the Goths founded a kingdom in Italy led by Theodoric the Great in 493
A REAL BODY BUSY ($1600) Also call the hypophysis, this gland is boss level, as its hormones regulate the thyroid & adrenal glands
($2000) This filtering organ is on the left side of the abdominal cavity under the diaphragm, or maybe “are under”–some grow more than one
LITERARY LIONS ($1200) “We had many great adventures with lions”, Isak Dinesen remembered in this book
($1600) The Colosseum is the setting for the climax of George Bernard Shaw’s play called him “and the Lion”
($2000) In this poet’s “The Second Coming”, “A shape with lion body and the head of a man…slouches towards Bethlehem to be born”
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Sneak Peek clues — KUWAIT FOR ME!
($200) Kuwait is found on the Arabian peninsula along the northwestern shores of this gulf
($400) The training of these swift raptors is a popular pastime in Kuwait & one appears on the national emblem
($600) Before the dominance of the oil industry, Kuwait was a center of diving offshore for these precious objects, often at depths of over 100 feet
($800) A museum is named for these people who died for a greater cause, specifically young men who in 1991 fought Iraqi tanks
($1000) Kuwait’s head of state, Sheik Nawaf of the Al Sabah dynasty, holds this 4-letter title from Arabic for “commander”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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At age 15 Paul Revere was a bellringer at the Old North Church. At age 40, he told the church sexton to light 2 lanterns.
The challengers dominated the 2nd round and left the champ in their dust.
Very disappointing that no one could think of “One if by land, 2 if by sea.”
An overabundance of stumpers. They answered a LOT of clues I didn’t know, but I got them on the “forks over” cookbook; Sholom Aleichim’s dairyman; Yankee slugger; GOAT boxer (I got his autograph when I was a kid); Jim Thorpe’s king; “Sunset Blvd” actor (come on, it was in the “Hold” category); filtering organ; Isak Dinesen book; Shaw’s play.
I got FJ, due to the third light. I didn’t even waste brain power on the Bicentennial.
Katherine was a quizzical one. She spoke just a little too quickly, and that caught her with “das Boot”. I knew she knew her German, though, with her correct “Jawohl, mein Herr”; this is more correct than Ken saying they just needed “Jawohl”. Her last daily double, though – didn’t wager enough, then had to risk it on the wrong answer. (Also, VJ, you have an extra “m” on hypophysis.) Also, the last body question, about which there might be more than one, for what she did know, I was surprised she didn’t get that. Then, the kind of blathering, for lack of a better word, about that poetry clue – she was hey own enemy there. Kevin was tactical in just letting them make their own mistakes, while he was on cruise control. I don’t know if that puts her in the running for the Second Chance Tournament.
Thanks, Jason. We were doing very well with the stumpers on this board, and I jokingly said we’d nail the Body category too if Jason was here.
I felt bad for Katherine. She was doing so well. I didn’t think Ken gave her enough of a chance to correct her “Boot” mistake. Then she got unnerved when she realized she made the same mistake on the poetry clue (not identifying the author). Anyway, she was wrong about Didion on that one.
Independence Hall wasn’t a bad guess for FJ, but Plymouth Rock? Anyways, we went for the Liberty Bell.
No Jeopardy here tonight, instead they are airing the NFL draft, seriously, there are surely enough sports channels to carry this very boring event.
I’ll admit I’ve never heard of the Old North Church, I guessed the Liberty Bell but that didn’t make much sense.
And we got our third triple stumper as today’s final wasn’t nice to anybody.
Shocking. I thought this would be a triple get, not a triple stumper.
I am so sad. FJ was a triple stumper? Between (5th/6th grade) History, movies like National Treasure and simple rousing stories and poems, I really thought one of these obviously bright folks would remember Paul Revere or the lanterns or something……. I really do get that even “supposedly” simple facts are not in everyone’s wheelhouse and we all can have that “blank moment”, I am very disappointed that this question could not be answered by any contestant.
My usual shoutout to VJ – your splendid work continues – to my everlasting joy.
Thanks, Sam. I also was disappointed that no one got this. I can only think that they all focused on the bicentennial, rather than the lanterns. Poetry, esp. 19th century, is my thing and I’ve even done a post on Longfellow’s stuff.
Also, there were an awful lot of stumpers in this game — more than any other game this week, I think. I was surprised at the Shaw play — that led to movies (Victor Mature!), children’s book and cartoons. Even more so, the Dinesen book? That’s a Jeopardy! favorite.
Well VJ, the focus was assuredly on the bicentennial in many people’s mind so naturally one would be searching for a national landmark that would commemorate that event. Personally, I wouldn’t have necessarily described the ‘Old North Church’ as being a national landmark (although I would grant you that it was quite a historical site to be sure). Perhaps this was what threw many people off. By the way, I’m not sure that anyone had dismissed the three lanterns in formulating their responses. I mean, we sure didn’t.
It’s also a curious fact that no one even knows what happened to those three lanterns as they all turned up missing.
Where did you see that, Rick?
The article on the Old North Church’s website says Ford’s lantern is still there, and Concord Museum claims it has one of the original lanterns.
From Wikipedia: “The current status of the lanterns is not entirely clear; one is said to be in the hands of a private collector, another was broken during a tour, and yet another is on display at the Concord Museum”.
From reading this, it sure seemed to me that those lanterns’ whereabouts were less than certain, and much less being found anywhere on the church grounds.
Thanks for the link, Rick. I have to say it sounds confusing to me. What third one? It can’t be referring to the Gerald Ford lantern as the article also states that the Bicentennial lantern “hangs in a window of the church today.”
In any case, I find it hard to believe that anyone really knew which lanterns were the original ones used. Heck, for a long time, folks couldn’t even agree on which “North Church” Paul Revere meant.
For the third time this week, we had another triple stumper. Hopefully next week will be better. Kevin Belle will return on Monday when Mayim Bialik returns to host for the rest of the season.
The last week of April was even worst than the first week, only 2 out of 15 correct responses.