Final Jeopardy: The Ancient World (5-19-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 5/x/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.
LIT BITS ($800) Sylvia Plath penned a famous poem with this 5-letter title about a dead parent
CONTAINERS ($1000) The name of this urn (image) is from Russian for “self-boil”
LET’S TAKE A WORLD TOUR ($1600) This notorious island prison off the coast of French Guiana also once housed a leper colony
($2000) The tower seen here (image) is 1,381 feet high, but reflecting the name of the Asian capital it’s in, has just this 2-letter name
PHYSICS ($800) This property is measured in becquerels; one Bq equals one disintegration of an unstable nucleus per second
($2000) The amplitude of a wave in physics is the distance from the center line to either of these two points also found on an ocean wave
TV PERSONALITIES ($2000) After “Bar Rescue”, he tried his hand at “Marriage Rescue”
STARTS WITH “A” OR ENDS WITH “Z” ($1200) A general pardon for political offenses
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Sneak Peek clues — IT’S A WORD! IT’S A NAME!
($200) Baedeker became a generic word for this kind of book; publisher Karl was one of the first to use stars in his
($400) British printer John Baskerville gave his last name to a popular one of these that uses serifs
($600) This “Thousand and One Nights” character gave his name to a type of paraffin lamp
($800) If a character in a British novel says, “I’ve dropped my Biro”, she means one of these, after its inventor
($1000) A 17th century British hangman lent his name first to a gallows & then to this oil well structure used to hoist pipes
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I thought the show did not allow two people from the same city to compete on the same show. Two players are from Philly.
I don’t remember hearing that, Albert. On the other hand, I don’t remember ever seeing two people from the same city on the same show either.
I found that highly unusual, too. I’ve heard that each game’s contestants are chosen at random from the pool, but never verified that. Seems somewhat unlikely, if for no other reason than to prevent same-named players from facing each other.
Unfortunately I’m not quite old enough to remember the ancient world. Didn’t know what Archimedes Screw was, but Great Pyramids of Egypt came to mind right away, and I thought that was it for sure.
Some tough stumpers, but at least one of them should have known the not-Lincoln VP, the island prison, and the term for political pardons. And probably the Russian urn. (If anyone ever asks you “What’s a Greek urn?” say “About 11 drachmas per hour.”
Well, sometime in the past few years, there was a contestant named “Rock”, because it was his nickname, and he shared the same name with another contestant.
I got the same TS you mention.
One thing on which I want to comment is sloppy writing. Earlier this season, there was a clue with the answer being “Adrenaline”. Then, this evening, the clue mentions “An Adrenaline rush”, with epinephrine being the correct answer. However, clarification: Adrenaline is a brand name, while epinephrine is generic. Notably, they both mean the same thing, one from Latin, the other from Greek. Ad-renal and epi-neph both mean “on the kidney”. By definition, if the contestant said “Adrenaline”, it should have been accepted. It just looks like sloppy writing, to me.
Ryan finally made the right wager. Me, I got FJ wrong (again). I said the Pharos of Alexandria.
Like one of the contestants, I chose ‘The Colossus Of Rhodes” for FJ. As for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, I think that the so-called Archimedes Screw was just pure speculation as it was based on scanty evidence. In fact, I would highly doubt that an advanced technology like that would even have existed at the time. Actually, if I could hazard a guess, I would imagine that indentured slaves performed that same function.
I mean, why even try out if you don’t want to win?
I don’t get it. Who didn’t play to win in tonight’s game?
Ryan is now tied with Tyler Rhode for 5 wins.
So sorry the daily doubles were not kind to Julie Ann and Brad.