Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Books (5-10-24-24)
Here are some more clues from the 5/10/2024 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.
CAN YOU SEE? ($800) Beaver was a name under consideration by Ford (image) for a model introduced in 1954; luckily, they went with this
BIRDPLAY ($1000) Particular kinds of this songbird you might see depend on your location & time of year
SPORTS VENUES ($1000) As of 2023, Rafael Nadal had won 14 titles & only lost 3 times in singles at this French Open venue
BUSINESS NAMES ($400) One of the most powerful women in business, Karen Lynch became CEO of this healthcare co. & drugstore chain in 2021
($1200) Pink Cadillacs were unique incentives to top earners from this cosmetics maven, who launched her business in 1963
($1600) Last name of Ferdinand, who designed the Volkswagen; his son Ferry designed the eponymous sports car
TALKING HOT & COLD ($2000) Our planet’s tropics are also called this “zone”, an adjective meaning very hot
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($200) In 1998 a physicist pulled a fast one with an article about Alabama wanting to “slice” this irrational number down to 3
($400) On episodes of this prank-full MTV show, Taylor Swift thought she set fire to a boat & Rihanna stole money from children
($600) Taco Bell fooled many when it announced plans to buy this Philly icon to reduce the national debt
($800) On April Fool’s Day in 1989 this founder of Virgin Galactic pranked U.K. folks by flying around in a balloon that looked like a UFO
($1000) In 1818 this French-American ornithologist pranked a rival by sketching up a bulletproof fish
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Kudos to those who got the FJ! From the clues that were given, we all thought that this was something which was related to the Vietnam war. Anyways, I did see the film ‘In Cold Blood’, but it wasn’t a movie that I would especially care to see again. I mean, it was so tragic.
Yeah, that was an awful movie. I was only 16 when I saw it and probably never would have seen it except, at that time, my father would take me to see movies he wanted to see. Robert Blake — ugh!!
I also saw “In the Heat of the Night” that same year. Anthony James played the evil guy in that one — ugh!!
Much to say. Jonah took off like a rocket, but the others eventually made it a game. I rarely say this, but I thought both boards were overall pretty easy, even the $1000/$2000 clues.
Sacre’ bleu, Allison, those two tiremakers’ names were French. Easy peasy.
Kudos to the guys for getting FJ. I thought it might be tough for them. I have the book somewhere, never read it, saw the film. At the time, it was billed as a non-fiction novel about the Clutters.
I thought someone might have known who portrayed Aretha; Madonna movie was tough but I remembered its name. Shame on them for not knowing the classic Ford model or the cosmetics maven. I’ve seen dozens of matches from the French Open stadium, but that was a toughie. If you didn’t know it, you could not have guessed it.
Cosign all, buddy.
Howeva – I did know the tennis stadium, but never watched a match! The cosmetics maven, I racked my brain, but couldn’t get it in time.
And I did get FJ, despite 1. not reading the book and 2. not seeing the movie!