Final Jeopardy: Animals (5-18-21)

Here are some more clues from the 5/18/2021 Jeopardy! game:

PLAYING TODAY’S HITS ($200) In 2020 Drake & Lil Durk decided to do this “Now Cry Later”

SOCIOLOGY ($600) Marx identified 4 types of this, a term now used for a sensation of isolation & estrangement from the rest of society

($800) From the Latin for “turning aside”, it’s departing from usual or accepted societal norms

HOMONYM-BLENESS ($200) To communicate directly regarding a situation, or 1201 S. Main Street

($800) A liqueur, or polite & genial

STAND-UP COMEDIANS ($1600) Seen here (image) is this comedian, not the robot version of her that joined her on a 2019 Netflix special

($2000) The 2020 documentary “The Comedy Store” has interviews with Letterman, Damon Wayans & of course him, the son of the club’s owner

The players only got the $800 clue in 4 OF THE SAME LETTER:

($400) It’s someone who reveals secrets or informs on others
($800) Why, you little one of these! a young cheeky & presumptuous person
($1200) From old words for “one & all”, today it means disreputable or undesirable people
($1600) Adjective meaning lacking all moral principles
($2000) Collective name for strategic measures taken by a nation to discourage hostile action by another

ANSWERS: show

Sneak Peek clues — WELL VERSED IN POETRY
($400) “Antique” title of a poem about a warship that mentions “her deck, once red with heroes’ blood”
($800) “The Waste Land” begins with the declaration that this “is the cruellest month”
($1200) This poem begins, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”
($1600) A poem by Wordsworth begins “I wandered lonely as” this “that floats on high o’er vales and hills”
($2000) This Kipling poem ends: “You’ll be a man, my son!”

ANSWERS: show

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16 Responses

  1. Richard Corliss says:

    Go, Karen! Redemption!! Whoo!!!!

  2. jCav says:

    Panzerschwein means “armored pig” not “tank pig”. The term “Tank” for armored fighting vehicles was British and not used until mid World War 1. So early German settlers in Texas couldn’t have used a term that had not yet been invented. “Panzer” (which is used interchangeably for “tank” in modern times) is short for “Panzerkampfwagen” which means “Armored Fighting (or War) Vehicle”. Literal German for “Tank” (such as a water tank) is…”tank”.

    • gj says:

      This annoyed me too, so I headed off to Google which brought me here. How many post 1918 German immigrants into Texas started using the term Panzer for tank? Pretty much none, I’d have thought.

  3. Howard says:

    Two super-sharp players tonight, and one who could garner no momentum.

    But boy, they left a LOT of clues on the table.

  4. Jacob Ska says:

    I hope it’s not just me but I thought “If” by Kipling was overvalued at $2,000.

    • VJ says:

      LOL, Jacob. I thought that if they HAD to put in the Frost and Wordsworth clues, they should have been $400 and $800.

      btw, the warship poem was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes who was a triple stumper himself recently in a “father of a Supreme Court Justice” clue

      • Jacob Ska says:

        VJ, everyone in my household said the same thing you said about the value of Frost and Wordsworth clues. We were all scratching our heads and there are no poets in the family either. LOL.

        This was high school material.

      • JP says:

        Even with my attempts to learn “Jeopardy” poetry clues, I was stumped on the Kipling and Wordsworth clues, although I got the Frost, Eliot, and Holmes clues. Anything with a little depth and I’m hopeless.

    • Albert says:

      $2K would be a proper amount for a regular game, but not a TOC game. I know the poem, but I haven’t thought about it for a long time so I, personally, drew a blank.

      Buzzy would be a fantastic permanent host.

  5. Quinn says:

    I’m guessing Sarah won’t be a wild card unless every other challenger finishes in the red however that scenario is very unlikely. Karen has a strong performance today and I am excited to see her in the finals.

    • Howard says:

      Sarah’s chance of advancement would be less than zero, if that were possible.

      Supposedly, contestants in quarterfinal matches in tournaments are not permitted to watch or discuss each other’s first-round games, so they cannot strategize how to get a wild card.

  6. Jeopardy! lover says:

    So far my tournament bracket is flip flopped.

    I said Jason Zuffranieri would be a semifinalist, but instead it was Ryan Bilger.

    I said Nibir Sarma would win, and Karen would be eliminated. Karen won and Nibir could be a wild card.

  7. Lou says:

    Nibir seems to have a good chance to advance into the semi finals but we shall see how well our next group does. Speaking of the final , VJ, have you heard of company of heroes the computer strategy game? The term panzer referred to the German tank division during the second world war. Karen pretty much dominated the game today but I am happy Steve also got final despite not being able to build up momentum. I am thinking this could be an all ladies final or two ladies plus sam kavanaugh.

    • Richard Corliss says:

      There’s never gonna be an all female final in the Tournament of Champions.

  8. JP says:

    Definitely some ToC level clues. Those ‘4 OF THE SAME LETTER’ clues were almost impossible – so little to go on. The only one I could get was the top row.

  9. Richard Corliss says:

    Semifinalists
    Ryan Bilger: $32,405
    Karen Farrell: $16,200

    Wild Cards:
    Jason Zuffranieri: $18,800
    Nibir Sarma: $12,199
    Steve Moulds: $4,800
    Sarah Jett Rayburn: $0