Final Jeopardy: Early 20th Century History (5-16-24)
Here are some more clues from the 5/16/2024 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.
ANAGRAMMED AUTHORS ($800) Born & died in Concord: A VERY HIDDEN AUTHOR
($1000) He’s been called the “King of Pulp Fiction”: MY ALIEN PICKLES
NOT AN ADVERB, BUT ENDS WITH “-LY” ($200) As a noun, it’s an account of debits & credits; as a verb, it means to count
COUNTRIES WITH ONE THING IN COMMON [or 7-Letter Countries] ($1200) Between Chile, five letters, & Brazil, six, is this country where at times the Uyuni Salt Flat turns into a giant mirror
APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES ($800) The total number of eggs laid by a bird per nesting attempt, it can be as little as one in the case of an albatross
($1200) In his 1916 poem “Home”, Edgar Guest wrote that “It takes” this much “o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home”
($2000) In “Paradise Lost”, Milton wrote, “Behold!” this throng “of fair women”, not doves, “richly gay in gems and wanton dress”
THE WILD WEST ($2000) Members of this gang included Kid Curry, Will Carver, Ben “The Tall Texan” Kilpatrick & Harry “The Sundance Kid” Longabaugh
SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS ($1600) In the 19th century Charles Macintosh mixed a solvent called naphtha with this substance to make a waterproof material
The players missed 2 clues in ADD A LETTER
($800) A jeering insult about your mom’s sister
($1200) A tidier scouring agent for the kitchen or bathroom
ADD A LETTER ANSWERS: show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: HERE BE MONSTERS
($200) In one of his many big-screen battles for earth’s survival, he fought against Hedorah the Smog Monster
($400) This legendary multi-armed sea monster probably was imagined from sightings of giant squid & octopi off the coast of Norway
($600) Makara often has the head of an elephant & the body of this apex predator reptile, perhaps what its name means in Sanskrit
($800) First described in Nepal in 1832, this monster was said to be a “wild man” that “moved erectly” & “was covered in long, dark hair”
($1000) 1939’s “Son of Frankenstein” was the third in the series that featured the Monster & the last with this actor playing the role
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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Unlike last night, I found FJ and the DDs pretty difficult. When the going got tough, Grant got going. For Final I thought only of the guy who shot McKinley, whose name I know but couldn’t recall anyway.
Stumpers also not nice to me, other than the Klugman show, which I never watched (but I forgot the two letters at the end of the title, so maybe a disallowance?), and the add-a-letter mom’s sister/jeer.
A new iteration of the show is in the works, Pop Culture Jeopardy, featuring teams of 3. Some of the online peeps I know have formed teams already. But each person has to pass the online test independently.
Howard, I’m sure just Klugman’s character’s name was all that was asked for.
The Pop Culture show is supposed to come out on Amazon Prime. I put a link to the page on the Jeopardy website on the What To Expect post.
Here is a link to the Pop Culture FAQs
Leon Czolgosz (McKinley got capped here in Buffalo).
Charles Guiteau, who shot James Garfield, was in a free love cult in the 1850s. However, Charles didn’t get much (or any) love – they called him “Charles Get Out”!
I first said Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but quickly changed to Gavrilo Prinzip.
I gotta admit, Grant made me chuckle counting on his fingers! Also, he made quite a comeback after that DD miss.
Jason, I agree with you about the finger counting strategy. It also made me think Grant is a person who wants to win using any means necessary. I hope he becomes more than a 3-day champ because he’s a joy to watch. He certainly never gives up.
Also, I was thinking I could use some of his hair at my age. 🤣
Matt Amodio is a notorious finger-counter when it comes to a specific number of letters, words, or syllables.
I did well in today’s Jeopardy, but the FJ was rather tough (but gettable). Anyways, it was another great game.!
That “Countries With One Thing in Common” category should have just been named “7-Letter Countries. That’s why I put that note in bracket after it.
For most of the clues, though, I think the right country was obvious.
Well VJ, despite the absence of the seven letter inclusion, , most of those countries were rather obvious anyways. Even if they weren’t, the “one thing in common” quickly followed that they were seven letter countries.
Well, Rick, I’m glad to see that you agree with me because I said the right country was obvious for most of the clues.
Be that as it may, some people may not have heard Ken’s explanation when he read the category titles.