Final Jeopardy: The National Park Service (5-16-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 5/16/2022 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.
THAT’S OUR ISLAND ($400) Robben Island, Duiker Island
($600) Rapa Nui
TFW ($200) You’re this synonym of stoic & tolerant, like one in a hospital
SWEDISH HISTORY ($2000) “Talent & Taste” is the motto of the Swedish this institution, founded in 1786, which hands out the Nobel Prize for Literature
LET’S GAMBLE ($400) Follow the Queen & Chicago are variants of this game
($1200) These 2 green numbers in roulette give the house an edge
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Sneak Peek clues — A HORSE WITH A NAME
($200) In mythology, this winged horse became the bearer of Zeus’ lightning & thunderbolts
($400) After winning an Olympic medal (image), she got congratulations from her rockstar dad who didn’t even mention Don Juan van de Donkhoeve
($600) The only survivor the U.S. Cavalry retrieved from this 1876 battle was a wounded horse named Comanche
($800) In 1938, in one of the great races of the century, this grandson of Man O’ War beat War Admiral in a one-on-one match
($1000) In “War Horse”, the novel & film, he’s the brave equine forced to fight on the Western Front during World War I
ANSWERS: show
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Please explain the BRISK LIT category from Thursday.
Thanks!
That was on Friday, KT. I tried to figure out what “Brisk” had to do with those titles/answers* but I gave up
*Catch-22, Fear and Loathing, the sun, Wind in the Willows, Canterbury Tales
Why didn’t Nick bet all she had and could have won the game.. you think you’d want to go for the win All or nothing I bet she’s scratching her head now wondering why she didn’t bet all she had..
When Nick had brain freeze and thought Copenhagen was Swedish, I thought that could cost her the game, but eventually it didn’t affect the outcome.
Ryan’s bet was wrong. He needed to bet more in case Nick bet it all. Her wager should have been everything or $1601. The latter would have assured her of 2nd place in case she missed FJ and the other contestant bet it all and got it right. But her $6599 wager incorporated that very strategy, so the real error was Ryan’s.
Knew FJ right away, but hadn’t heard the other name for it and was surprised at first when they accepted it.
Ryan’s low-key, calm demeanor is the antithesis of Mattea’s. But he’s very good.
That’s exactly what I thought – I said “Gateway Arch”, and have never, ever heard the other name.
Also, yes, bad wagers by both Nick and Ryan. Only dumb luck that Ryan won again today.
I got the Plague clue, because I did my last paper in college on it, and recalled I graduated 30 years ago on the 15th!
But, likewise, my French and Latin ears were wounded – again – with a soft G in “cogito”. That’s how Alex (incorrectly) said it; I wonder if that was Mayim’s homage!
Strong group today. Nick is very fast on the buzzer finger. My recommendation for anyone here: please visit the arch in St Louis at any time during the summer months!
There’s a song about that horse Comanche by Johnny Horton that implies he was Custer’s horse. I grew up believing that but I read somewhere that it isn’t true. 😒
For the first time we have a contestant named Nick who is a female. Usually Nick is a male but this time it’s a female.