Final Jeopardy: 18th Century Literature (5-1-23)
Here are some more clues from the 5/1/2023 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.
TITLES WITH EXCLAMATION POINTS! ($800) “Raise the Titanic!” is the fourth book featuring this author’s action hero Dirk Pitt
WORLD OF BELIEF ($600) It’s the majority religion of Albania
TIME TO DANCE ($400) Early punk rockers bounced up & down to do this dance named for a playground toy
IT’S GONNA BE MAY! ($1000) With proud daughters Elizabeth & Margaret, this King is seen at the time of his coronation–May 12, 1937
SITTING IN WITH THE ORCHESTRA ($800) A modern symphony has 6 to 10 players of this, the tenor of the violin family & tonight, I’ll be one of ’em to help string you along
($2000) It’s big fun for an oboist to play “Peter & the Wolf”, where I get to be this bird
DIVIDED ISLANDS ($1600) France & the Netherlands share this little Caribbean island, & we don’t care whether you say “Saint” or “Sint”
($2000) The first word in the name of this country that shares an island with Indonesia is from Malay for “frizzled”
WORLD OF WORDS ($800) In German, it’s Dienstag; in Latin, it’s Dies Martis; in English, it’s this
From an Italian word for “boat”, it was the type of song originally sung by Venetian boatmen
BETTER ANGELS ($2000) In Gaile Parkin’s “Baking Cakes in Kigali”, Angel enriches the lives of those in this African country
“R” NATURE ($2000) Non-flowering plants like horsetails propagate using these horizontal, underground stems
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Sneak Peek clues — 3-LETTER WORDS WITH 2 VOWELS
($200) It follows ice & stone
($400) Perhaps you learned to type with the phrase “Now is the time for all good men to come to the” this “of the party”
($600) In the early 2000s the Israeli army phased out use of this submachine gun
($800) Wrath or fury packed into 3 letters
($1000) This symbol of Australia ranks as the world’s second-tallest bird
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I started with 1700s novels, and Gulliver’s Travels went through my head. The “of God” made me think of “-el”. However, I didn’t put it all together, and had no answer.
The pauses and choppiness do not endear me.
“Easily duped” and “18th century lit” made FJ a giveaway. Cannot believe no one got it. Kevin bet enough to knock out Cyrus, but not nearly enough to beat Maryhelen if both got FJ right. It looked as if he was playing for 2nd.
Some tough stumpers, although there were a few I thought might have been answered. Winnie Cooper show; violin family instrument; Caribbean island; and Diestag/Dies Martis word.
Nobody wants to answer all the $2,000 clues in the Double Jeopardy round today.
The last clue in FJ was obviously an indirect reference to Lemuel Gulliver so my mother and I both got it right. Anyways, we’re glad to see Mayim Bialek back as the Jeopardy host.
Interesting FJ wager from Kevin, betting to cover an all-in from 3rd place but not defending vs. 2nd place. Though so many triple stumpers lately, maybe going small is smart. Would be tough to live with if FJ turns out to be a layup, though.
And we start off the month with a triple stumper as today’s final was a tough one.