Final Jeopardy: Sports Mascots (4-8-16)
6 more triple stumpers:
CHEMISTRY ($200) Chemically, this stimulant is the principal alkaloid of coca leaves
($1000) A boiling dilute acid breaks down starch into a simple sugar called this
GET GOING ($2000) Figuratively, to sip of nepenthe
WORLD LANDMARKS ($1600) St. Chapelle, with fabulous stained glass windows, stands near the more famous Notre Dame Cathedral on this island
ME & MY LITERARY ARROW ($1600) The story of a band of outlaws during the Wars of the Roses, “The Black Arrow” is an 1888 novel by this Scotsman
A SWEDISH KING NAMED GUS ($1600) An amateur botanist, Gustav VI Adolf was an expert on this flower whose name is Greek for “rose tree”
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Bonnie Erickson has learned to hide her Boston accent well.
Off topic, I just watched Emily Graslie on The Interview Show with Mark Bazer (WTTW Chicago website). The video wasn’t very good, but I enjoyed their banter.
Did I tell you about her?
I was spreading the word about Voices in Science thickly about a year ago.
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Yes, you did. I’ve been a fan of her ever since. And for that, I thank you. 🙂
So cool! I wasn’t fishing. I honestly wasn’t sure. You, my friend, are more than welcome. Thank you for paying attention.
Hey there was an RLS clue — not exactly on the date I had a quote by him in Spoiler Talk but close enough. @Eric — we could say I planted a seed :):)
PS to Ken – Sir Walter Scott, roughly 30 years in 18th & 19th centuries. RLS, last half of 19th
Hahaha
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This week has been a pattern for Final Jeopardy!s this week. On Monday, everybody gets final right. On Tuesday, nobody gets final right. On Wednesday, everybody gets final right, although that Astronomy clue was worthy of Kids Week. Yesterday. nobody gets final right and tonight, everybody gets final right. Is the pattern gonna continue next week? I highly doubt it, but we’ll just have to wait and see.
I consider 3 triple-solve in a week a good thing. It would be nice if it continues. 🙂
Poor Ken got clobbered tonight. VJ, how did he pronounce Neanderthal? I didn’t hear it. Ricky played a great game.
He said Nethanderal. After Alex said no, Ricky said it right. Ken was quite upset with himself. OMG!
Thanks, there was a police siren going by just at that moment—selfishly, I don’t really care who they’re after when that happens, I’m like, shut up!
Hey, I like the new “yellow-green-blue-daily recap-season #” thingy you got going on here. Very nice.
Thanks, that’s what I was showing my granddaughter yesterday — the season 31 one that is already up. She loved it. The season 32 one wasn’t up yet, but she loved that one too (so do I). They’re pretty cool :):)
Oh, I hadn’t noticed season 31—me like it too. 🙂
Back to Ken, how his mind got to Nethanderal is all I wanna know. I’d be pissed at myself too if I were him.
And TR is right; that Yankee’s mascot is a pile of hideousness. Funny, when I saw “mustachioed fella” I thought about Mexico and was trying to come up with a Spanish team name, hmm….Padres? LOL. That’s how utterly ignorant I am about sports.
It sure looked like it was because he was pretty rattled and he sure was rattling that buzzer, too.