Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Novels (4-29-20)
Here are 6 more triple stumpers from the 4/29/2020 Jeopardy! game:
SPINELESS JELLYFISH ($1000) Call it the king of sea beasts; it’s the two-word feline hair name of this, the largest species of jellyfish (image)
WELL-SEASONED VOCABULARY ($200) This tasty verb precedes “favor” when you are using flattery as a means of advancement
($600) The brown coloring of the coat of the animal seen here (image) gives it this spicy name
($1000) This architectural style was popular for houses in Colonial New England (image)
THE GOLD BURGS ($400) This big burg was founded in 1886 following the discovery of gold in the Transvaal
I’M JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY ($1600) This late character actor played “Repo Man” Bud & Molly Ringwald’s dad in “Pretty in Pink”
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — PREQUELS:
($400) Tracee Ellis Ross narrates “Mixed-ish”, a prequel to this ABC sitcom
($800) This “Breaking Bad” prequel shows us how Jimmy McGill becomes Saul Goodman
($1200) “Age of Resistance”, a TV prequel to “The Dark Crystal”, was produced by Lisa, daughter of this man who directed the original film
($1600) A prequel to this TV series, “Caprica” showed what life was like in the 12 colonies before the Cylons messed everything up
($2000) The title Autobot chooses to hide as a Volkswagen Beetle in this 2018 “Transformers” prequel film
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Alex could barely keep a straight face when he was reading that Dear Abby “Correction” clue. My daughter and I used to watch Jay Leno read the blooper headlines and laugh hysterically!
By the way VJ, did you know that the conquistador named lope de aguirre tried to take control of el dorado’s kingdom and all that gold? According to what I have seen on the Amazon trail another traveller and conquistador named Francisco Orellena was also looking for the same thing but was lost.
Congrats to.the players on getting final right. And congrats to Sarah on her fourth win. She definitely is looking good for the tournament of champions if she wins her fifth game tomorrow. Also why did alwin go with the time machine ,vj? If I recall the character travelled back to 802,701 a.d. and met the morlocks which obviously has no connection to a tale of two cities where it has our hero Charles evermont or calling himself darnay trying to clear his name from being accused of a crime he did not commit in France. I remember a few lines from that villainess like take this ping to the slaughterhouse and you are born to the wrong family, your home breed must be destroyed.
Whew, reading a lot deeper into the clue than what was there: it talked about a period being much like the current one, so time seems to come into play is an easy connection to make when searching for an answer. While the text only covers the “present” and, indeed, 802,701 AD (solid remembering on that detail), the movie adaptations throw in other periods, so it’s possible he felt like the first line was comparing to one of those periods, or that the novel was taking a classist position off the bat, comparing the Morlocks to the higher class who use the nice sweet Eloi (the lower class) for their own means. From that sense, I get why he might have made that leap. Or maybe he was just stabbing in the dark like people sometimes do in the heat of Jeopardy and went with the “period = time” option. It is a far, far better answer than nothing, than I have ever done on Jeopardy myself.
Yes, it can be easy to focus on the wrong word or phrase in the clue and be led somewhere else, or nowhere.
Sarah, go, go, go!