Final Jeopardy: Book & Movie Title Reference (5-17-24)
Here are some more clues from the 5/17/2024 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.
PASSPORTS ($400) The U.S. State Department refers to “regular” passports as this type, a word for a person traveling for leisure
ENTER THE LITERARY CHARACTER ($1000) Holden Caulfield, who doesn’t like many people, tells us about this sister of his, “You never saw a little kid so pretty & smart”
CAST MEMBERS IN THE REBOOT ($800) From a Norman Lear sitcom: Isabella Gomez & Rita Moreno
($1600) Chisme on the Upper East Side: Whitney Peak & Savannah Lee Smith
“GN”OWLEDGE ($400) In “Where the Wild Things Are”, Maurice Sendak used this past tense verb for what the wild things did with “their terrible teeth”
TOUGH 6-LETTER WORDS ($800) Found in the name of a Washington State dam, it’s a deep ravine or valley
($1600) It can refer to territory governed by another, a set of values in math or a group of linked computers on a network
The players missed 3 clues in STATE NAME STUFF:
($1200) Territorial governor James Duane Doty favored spelling this Midwest state’s name with the 4th letter “K” instead of “C”
($1600) They’re the 2 states whose names contain the exact name of another state
($2000) One of the 2 states that end with the postal abbreviation of the “Peace Garden State”
STATE NAME ANSWERS: show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: WORDS FROM FILM
($200) The title of a 2010 documentary gave us this word meaning to deceive with a fake online persona
($400) In “Ghostbusters” Bill Murray gave an old word a new meaning, saying a “chick is” this breakfast item, meaning finito
($600) A 2007 pic popularized this term for a catalog of stuff to do before you die
($800) Though it has long meant someone who ducks work, thanks to a 1991 movie title, it came to mean someone apathetic or aimless
($1000) A 1944 film title gives us this word meaning to make someone doubt his or her sanity
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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I breezed through Single Jeopardy, but stumbled throughout Double Jeopardy. With that being said, some of the DDs were no brainers so I have seen worst days. In addition, I have never been a fan of the newer Hollywood films so I missed FJ. Actually, one of my favorites are the 1950s film noirs. In fact, we watched ‘Reform School Girl’ (1957) earlier this week.
FJ a headscratcher for me. What a terrific, intense film, though.
Any legit baseball junkie knows the lefty who won 27 games. If I remember, his Phils team won a pathetic 59 games that season, making his accomplishment even more remarkable. Now very few pitchers win more than 15.
Knew the first and last DDs; middle one was a tossup between the given answer and the true one. The “work ducker” and “territory governed by another” stumpers were easy. Deep ravine clue was not, although those of us living in the NW had a much better shot at it.
The link to the Passports stumper took me nowhere, and an online search was fruitless, but then I pretty much figured out the actual word.
@Howard, the reason to rule Cather out on that DD is because she was never a farm wife — she never got married.
Also, idk why that link didn’t work for you. It went to a pdf checklist for renewal of that type of passport. Anyway, to avoid confusion, I changed the link to the appropriate word.
Thanks, I see now my guess was right. For some reason, the original link took me to a giant Adobe Acrobat screen. I’m sure Cather’s “O Pioneers” is what led the player and me to her as a possibility. In 2021 I got my first passport in 50 years but still haven’t used it.
Yeah, the first 2 words of the title of the giant Adobe Acrobat pdf was the answer 🤣
So happy to see Grant a grocery clerk from Arizona win his 3rd game. Kudos Grant, keep on winning.
I used to call diet coke the elixir of life. I would even write that on the grocery list.
Nowadays iced coffee is the elixir of life.
Ugh!! Those diet sodas typically leave a bitter taste. As for me I have been making my own carbonated drinks for years (ever since the major bottlers had substituted fructose for cane sugar).