Final Jeopardy: U.S. National Memorials (5-17-23)
Here are some more clues from the 5/17/2023 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.
PANTOMIME HORSE ($800) Roaring Forties, Furious Fifties & Screaming Sixties are names for these that occur south of the horse latitudes
WE’RE FULL OF QUESTIONS ($800) If you remember the Talking Heads song “Psycho Killer”, you know this is French for “what is it?”
SCIENTIFIC DEVICES & INSTRUMENTS ($400) Created by a French astronomer in the 1930s, the coronagraph is a type of this
($1200) Seen here is a Pelton wheel, an impulse type of this design for water
($2000) Ionized air maintains the moving spark in the high-voltage traveling arc commonly known by this biblical name
POE”M”S ($1600) Last name of Sam; Robert Service told a tall tale of the frozen north in “The Cremation of” him
POE”M”S ($2000) “The apparition of these faces in the crowd: petals on a wet, black bough” is the entirety of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of” this
RECENT POP MUSIC ($800) This Drake song asks, “Kiki, do you love me? Are you riding?”
JEOPARDY! AFTER DARK ($800) You wouldn’t let your kids see a movie rated this nickname of 1930s baseball star Jimmie Foxx
($1600) Nuta was the given first name of the creator of the dazzling country & Western style worn here, but he was better known as this (only nickname required)
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Sneak Peek clues — GREAT BRITS
($200) Following her untimely death, she was called “the foremost ambassador for AIDS awareness on the planet”
($400) This comic legend of the silent screen spent the last 24 years of his life in Switzerland, where he died in 1977
($600) Sir Ronald Ross won a Nobel Prize for his work on this disease and his discovery of its transmission by mosquitoes
($800) iN 1860 at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, this woman opened the first formal nursing school
($1000) Brother of filmmaker Richard, he’s credited with helping to invent the nature documentary as we know it today
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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But… Jeopardy has no “questions”. The answers are give and the contestants have to come up with the questions.
So Final Jeopardy is the final Answer, not the final question.
Wow, those stumpers are brain-crushers, all but the Jimmie Foxx one.
Those are all Masters/GOATs/ToC-caliber questions.
At least I got the first two DDs and FJ.
During regular Jeopardy today, and just before the commercial break, David’s response to “What is it?” in French was “Qu’est-ce que c’est?”, and yet Mayim Bailek wouldn’t accept it. Actually, that was exactly my response too.
As for the “National Memorials” in FJ, well goodness gracious, the Arizona went down 82 years ago, and the waters at Pearl Harbor are still polluted from the oil spill? I mean, give me a break! Anyways, I came up with Prudhoe Bay for lack of a better choice.
Rick, David did not say the French question in a way that Mayim could give him credit for — he ended his phrase with “que”.
I’m leaving your comment the way it is for now, but please don’t give the answers to triple stumpers in the comments to give folks who didn’t see the game a chance to answer the clue (it is on page 2)
I toured Pearl Harbor in 2015 and learned that the oil was still leaking then, so that solved FJ for me.
Very odd to see Ben so far ahead yet wager so little in FJ. Not like him. He bet $19K on Monday, also in a runaway game.
I went with Plymouth Bay on the final. I’m not happy that I missed this one, seems pretty easy.
I said Massachusetts Bay. Irony is, I lived in HI; that didn’t even click with me.
Concur (as usual) with Howard: those TS were tough. As for the French, he said it wrong, that’s all there is. Phonetically, it’s “kess kuh say”, and he didn’t say that.
And, I’ll give it to Ben: he has some weird cadence to his speech.
The challengers were barely on the plus side. Ben is the first player to have runaways in his first 6 games.