Final Jeopardy: Advertising (4-30-20)
Here are 5 more triple stumpers from the 4/30/2020 Jeopardy! game:
CHILDREN’S LIT ($600) Created by Hans Christian Andersen, this tiny girl fends off marriage-minded toads before meeting her one true love
COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY ORIGINS ($400) In 1860 William T. Sherman was the 1st leader of this then seminary of learning & military academy, 9 years before it moved to Baton Rouge
TOOT SUITE ($1600) “Mercury, The Winged Messenger” in this Holst suite brings some high-pitched frivolity
WORLD CAPITAL RIVERS ($2000) This capital of Laos lies on the Mekong (Note: on the 10 or more clues list. Jesse’s answer was not accepted because he left out the first “N”)
BROKEN ENGLISH ($2000) This synonym for “hernia” can also refer to a break in a pipeline
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — NICKNAMES
($200) Born in Austria, the Governator
($400) aka Mr. Tepes, the Impaler
($600) A Keystone star, the Little Tramp
($800) A frequent presidential candidate, the Great Compromiser
($1000) Died in 1400, the “father of English poetry”
ANSWERS: show
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Will Sarah be in the Tournament of Champions or not?
We’ll never know.
She should not have risked 6000 in her second game
I am so glad that she lost. She loved hearing herself talk. She thought too highly of herself. She needs to get a life.
I agree. Ugg
Sarah said 1001 Nights or Salome and then said the correct daily double answer and time out.
I’m not terribly surprised two contestants missed the Final Jeopardy. People, myself included, have been cutting the cord with increased frequency. While I was very familiar with the line, I can’t remember the last time I actually saw it. Universally recognized commercials might be becoming a thing of the past.
@JP, I thought that “cutting the cord” meant ditching cable TV ??? Just wondering — I have cable and antenna TV and there are a lot more commercials on antenna TV than cable.
I guess “cutting the cord” is one of those accordion words that can be expanded and contracted to mean a range of things.
Wikipedia says, “In broadcast television, cord-cutting refers to the pattern of viewers, referred to as cord-cutters, cancelling their subscriptions to multichannel subscription television services available over cable or satellite, dropping pay television channels or reducing the number of hours of subscription TV viewed in response to competition from rival media available over the Internet. This content is either free or significantly cheaper than the same content provided via cable.”
I was thinking of “cutting the cord” as moving to internet entertainment options like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu where there are no ads (for Hulu, you have to pay extra for no ads, though). I forgot that antenna TV even existed – I’ve never accessed TV via an antenna in my life.
okay, I get it now. I am the only one in the house with an antenna connected to my Smart TV. Comes in handy if the internet goes out. I can watch Prime, Netflix and Hulu on there, too, but I have to watch cable on my tablet in my room because I never got the extra receiver. Most of the time, I watch antenna TV until I fall asleep.
P.S. — here’s a favorite commercial of mine from 1998. It’s a Mercedes Benz commercial and everywhere this lady drives, she sees Robert Goulet singing “It’s Impossible.” 🤣🤣
That 1300 dollar bet from jesse should have given Sarah a great advantage to win her fifth game. Not a great move from her today. And I am surprised that only one person knows about capital one. I was hoping that the other two would know this since I have used the capital one credit cards since 2007 or 2008. Has anyone else had any experience with capital one?
At least Sarah is now added into the toc lineup.