Final Jeopardy: Novelists (4-4-23)
Here are some more clues from the 4/4/2023 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.
THE WORLD OF MIDDLE-EARTH ($600) This peak is where the ring was forged & the only place it can be destroyed
($800) Sting is the name Bilbo gives to this possession
GOODNESS & MERCY ($600) To phrase a coin, we’re giving this word that means to decide not to put an enemy to death
WATERFRONT PROPERTY ($800) Buffalo, New York is located where the eastern end of this lake narrows into the Niagara River
($1600) The Pacific port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia is named for the first governor of this trading company
PAINT ME A PICTURE ($1600) Manet’s scandalous “Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe” is known as this in English
($2000) Following the Civil War, he turned to scenes of the beach & sea like these three bathers on a beach in his native Massachusetts
SPORTS MEDICINE ($2000) A doctor in the French army lent his name to this part of the foot which athletes are often injuring
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Sneak Peek clues — “ODD”S & “END”S
($400) A section at the end of a book, or a vestigial body part
($800) To “make” these means to correct past wrongs
($1200) A popular vote held to decide a single issue
($1600) Absolutely soaked with water
($2000) Hay or straw given to livestock
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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The use of the weak pun about the coin was confusing in the answer about quarter. I was confused about Ken interpretation of what it means to give quarter. It is a a term implying mercy. To give quarter means to take prisoners and provide for them . To give no quarter means to take no prisoners Ken said that “no quarter given”. Means not to put an enemy to death. It means the opposite.
Good group tonight, all likable and good players. Amanda disappeared down the stretch and pretty much lost all chance of winning.
Crystal’s wager of $7201 is perplexing me. She missed FJ and ended up with $4399, same as what Brian would have had, had he missed, forcing a tiebreaker. $2201 might have been a stronger wager.
Norman Mailer was the only name I could think of for FJ. I gave Truman Capote a brief thought.
Thought Brian would know the Italian river. I’d have gone with Tiber but really wasn’t sure. One of them should have known Buffalo’s lake. “Tea and” clue I also thought might be answered.
I knew the black journalist only because our local HS renamed itself after her a couple years ago when they decided Woodrow Wilson had been too racist.
Sorry if I’ve misunderstood but the term “no quarter” appears to mean the prisoners WILL be put to death. Was this a misprint or did the Jeopardy question-makers allow an error? Also, I loved the Lord of the Rings category (World of Middle Earth) – just selfish. I’m so pleased when one of “my” categories appears on Jeopardy. Again, thanks for all your great work, VJ. This site (and you) ROCK!
Thanks, Sam. As for the coin TS, Ken is the one who made it confusing when he said, “the coin is a quarter, as in “no quarter given”. I had the same reaction as you — that he gave the opposite meaning of the clue but I guess he did that because the “no quarter” expression is more commonly used, meaning no mercy. I didn’t quite know if I should just link to quarter or to no quarter.
Okay! I actually found an entry for “give quarter” on the Free Dictionary and put that link in the TS clue. For anyone who wants to know the origin of the more common idiom, give no quarter, here’s a link to The Word Counter’s fine explanation
Being from a Buffalo suburb, that $800 clue hurt!