Final Jeopardy: Fashion History (4-6-23)
Here are some more clues from the 4/6/2023 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.
WORD PUZZLES ($800) GEHRY / CAPRA / GARBANZO / PINTO
ANCIENT CITIES ($200) Now in Syria, Aleppo lies at a crossroads of great commercial routes about 60 miles away from both the Euphrates River & this sea
($600) Circa 330 A.D. the city once known as this got a new name under new emperor Constantine
The players got all the clues in LATIN WORDS & PHRASES
($400) Meaning “before the war”, it commonly refers to the period before the American Civil War
($800) It’s used when something is repeated “to the point of sickness”
($1200) Legally, someone who is this phrase meaning “not of sound mind” may not be responsible for his or her actions
($1600) Meaning “course of one’s life”, it’s more extensive than a resumé & emphasizes academic achievements
($2000) While he popularized the concept, John Locke didn’t actually use this term for the idea that the mind is a blank slate at birth
LATIN ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — LIT-POURRI
($200) This novel by Johanna Spyri begins, “The pretty little Swiss town of Mayenfeld lies at the foot of a mountain range…”
($400) This last name of James Thurber’s character Walter can have -esque added to mean having fantasies far above your abilities
($600) By its title, this Lois Lowry Y.A. novel needs a receiver & his name is Jonas
($800) “The Revenger’s Tragedy” of 1607 is one of several plays on the theme of vengeance from this literary era named for King James I
($1000) 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of this novelist & 75 years since his breakthrough “The Naked and the Dead”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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imo, some of these recent FJ! clues (today’s included) just don’t take into account that the contestants only have 30 seconds to figure out and write down the correct response.
No one wants the final clue to be too easy or too hard. Find the balance!
Well VJ, for the most part, I personally think that the recent FJs were reasonable. I mean, there existed at least a chance that some of the contestants and/or TV viewers would arrive at the correct response.
Actually, these recent FJs would be a far cry from a few of the earlier FJs in which the chances of arriving at the correct response were virtually nil. A case of point was the Beatle’s hit ‘Eight Days A Week’ which was featured in FJ as supposedly being work related,, and simply because of a chat between Paul McCartney and a taxi driver. I’m sure you remember, or who can ever forget: Paul: How have things been going? Taxi driver: Oh it’s been like eight days a week!”
@Rick, you’re certainly entitled to your opinion.
In the 2 weeks before this one (10 FJ clues), there were 2 right answers out of 29 responses in FJ and there was only one right answer! Yesterday, everyone predicted zero right. Today, 3 out of 4 said zero right. So by my standards, some of these clues have been really hard and I am usually the one who is quick to predict everyone will get a clue when I think it can be figured out with time enough to write out the whole answer.
Maybe I was just lucky, but I thought FJ was a softball, and was shocked no one got it.
I guess this group was too young to remember the king of ballroom dancing schools.
I pay little attention, if any, to fashion, but Brian’s worn that same shiny suit every day.
I don’t say nobody at home didn’t get it in 30 seconds, Howard, so congrats to you and anyone else who figured it out. I’m sure there are some folks who already knew it but just for the hell of it, here’s a clue from an old game that had a better hint and still was a TS:
FASHION HISTORY ($1600) This artificial gem used for costume jewelry was originally made in Strasbourg on the river for which it’s named (one player said cubic zirconia)
P.S. As a mom whose kid had one of those rhinestone craft kits, I think they’re almost as bad as glitter — just sitting there waiting for someone to come along and knock the tray on the floor 🤣🤣🤣
The $400 clues that should’ve been opened and read are the State of the Art Museum and Speeches.
The FJ obviously had something to do with a type of personal ornament, but all I could come up was simply ‘earrings’. Like they say, a bad guess is better than a no guess.
And we got our third triple stumper this week.
I’m hoping that we’ll have a Good Friday with Final Jeopardy! tomorrow. Man, these last few weeks with Final Jeopardy! have been rough.
Or else we will get four triple stumpers in one week for the first time since the Season 33 finale week.
For the third time this week, we have another triple stumper. Only correct response so far this week. If we don’t get any correct responses in FJ! tomorrow, we’ll only have 1 out of 15 correct responses. But on the other hand, Brian is now a 3 day champion. He’ll return tomorrow on Good Friday. Will Good Friday be a good day and game for Brian or will one of his challengers have a Good Friday by taking him down as champion? We’ll see what happens as we wrap up the week.
I’m hoping that we’ll have a Good Friday with Final Jeopardy! tomorrow.