Final Jeopardy: Inventions (4-7-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 4/7/2022 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.
WORLD WAR II ($400) When war broke out in September 1939, this country had tanks & a million-man army yet still relied heavily on cavalry
($600) Jimmy Doolittle’s April 1942 air raid on this Axis capital raised Allied morale at a dark time in the war
COMPUTERS & THE INTERNET ($800) Smaller networks can be secured with the packet-filtering type of this protective program
PALINDROMIC WORDS ($1000) It’s the raised structure at the back of a sailing ship (Note: they only wanted the first word. Mayim joked that they were gonna make her say it, inferring that they didn’t answer on purpose 😁)
BALLPARK ($1000) Roy Campanella, Biz Mackey & Jud Wilson, who played for the city in the Negro Leagues, appear in this park’s Birdland artwork
THAT PAINTING HAS A TITLE ($2000) The Vermeer here (image) is sometimes called simply “Allegory of” this virtue and sometimes “Allegory of the Catholic” this
IN THE CITY ($2000) A port on the Arabian Sea, Malabar Hill, the Bandra-Worli Sea Link seen here (image)
QUOTE-POURRI ($400) In a Bible parable a merchant “found one” this gem “of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it”
($2000) “Only connect” is from this E.M.Forster novel about a country house
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Sneak Peek clues — LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS
($200) In the story of this pair, the witch asks, “Nibble, nibble little mouse, who is nibbling at my house?”
($400) This Dr. Seuss character shows up one boring rainy day when “our mother was out of the house”
($600) An annual read aloud book award is named for this “Stuart Little” author
($800) Shere Khan, the Bengal tiger in “The Jungle Book”, threatens that this character “is mine & to my teeth he will come in the end”
($1000) Billy has a pair of hounds named Old Dan & Little Ann in the kids’ classic “Where” this plant “Grows”
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My comment got lost (my error). For some reason, I thought Velcro was from the first decade of the 20th century. I then was going to make a witty joke that the Vulcans invented it (Enterprise episode “Carbon Creek”), but that was timed as 1957, and de Mestral created it in 1955 (and, in fact, that episode had a character named “Mestral” in his honor.
Nylon was 1935 or so, Wallace Hume Carothers, at DuPont.
So, I said “Kevlar”. I did forget the years of that.
I think Mattea is getting lucky with lackluster other contestants. She may have gotten 35/60 right, but, what about the other two? The Doolittle clue TS was definitely a head scratcher. After two bad guesses, there was only one viable option left!
I had Velcro, when all 3 contestants miss, and I get it right it is not a matter of timing. I really think Alex would have loved a tutor from Toronto.
Reagan was super-smart, so I was surprised she didn’t know the famous painting. “Indigo” was a huge tip-off, too.
For the Final i had Rayon.
A triple stumper in FJ, and it sure wouldn’t have been nylon as that was invented much earlier. Actually, Velcro has never been popular in the consumer market since its inception.
Lou, I have worn & do wear Nike athletic shoes that fasten using velcro. Good for comfort & taking walks, etc. As much as they cost me they had better be comfortable.
Interestingly enough I used to have Velcro jackets back in the old days thanks to my parents. Also @Jacob @rhonda and vj did you guys ever buy Velcro shoes or light jackets with Velcro zippers at tj max Macy’s or maybe at Nordstrom in the old days?
Good comeback by Mattea today. I hope she will go on winning many more games
Kids sneakers are pretty much the only thing that I think Velcro is good for
I have a velcro harness for one of my dogs.
We end the episode with a triple stumper as today’s FJ was a tough one.
Here is the post where Mike Janela presented Alex Trebek with his Guinness World Record certificate back in 2014