Final Jeopardy: Word Origins (5-2-16)
10 more triple stumpers
ON THE PERIODIC TABLE ($400) The heaviest noble gas in nature, it can be very dangerous if allowed to go unchecked in basements
PRODUCE THE PRODUCE ($1600) Catawba and Red Flame
AFRICANA ($400) Its many large bodies of water give this region the same name as part of the U.S.A’s upper Mid-West
($2000) If you visit this capital to see the Mahdi’s tomb, know there is no Mahdi; Gen. Kitchener tossed his bones into the Nile.
SONG LYRICS ($1,200) Requests from Sam Smith: “I don’t want you to leave, will you hold my hand? Oh, won’t you” do this title action
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS ($1200) One of his infamous decisions was signing the Munich Agreement
($1600) This guy, the Younger, was prime minister during the French Revolutionary era
($2000) He was Prime Minister while JFK was President. The two became friends and were sometimes known as Mac and Jack
JUST “D.M.” ME ($400) This component of the universe is detected by its gravitational pull rather than by its luminosity (dark matter)
($800) The cedilla & the tilde are examples of these
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I was surprised that no one knew Neville Chamberlain and the Munich Agreement, not even the history teacher could come up with it.
I wonder what Chris thought was so funny about “Achy Breaky Heart” in the song lyrics category. Maybe he likes this part:
You can tell your mom I moved to Arkansas
You can tell your dog to bite my leg
LOL!! Anyway, Lauren was doing better than me. I have heard that Sam Smith song. I just can’t remember why I was listening to it. 🙂 🙂
or tell your brother cliff whose fist can tell my lip
he never really liked me anyway 🙂
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Since WHEN is panarama an “acceptable misspelling?” Makes no sense. What a bag.
Take a look at this post: Jeopardy Spelling Decisions
To think that teachers would not know how to spell currectly…sertanly exemplery of the state of edjukasion.
Thanks for the link V.J. It seems a little arbitrary. They accepted Burindi for Burundi. They did not accept Gallopoli for Gallipoli. Don’t they seem like the same kind of errors?
I agree Marilyn, they surely do seem like the same error-wise. I just listened to a bunch of people saying Burundi from different countries on Forvo. LOL. I guess I’ll file that under “Strange things to do at 2 in the morning”
That’s…a very interesting website 😀
PanArama was OK, since as far as I can tell the middle O in panorama is a schwa, and every vowel can fit that sound. With pronunciation as the standard (and some generosity with long/short vowels), every one of the examples listed there makes sense…except Burindi. I wonder if that would still be acceptable today?
@TR, yes, that site is a trip but very helpful with foreign words. I guess J! would have to accept Barundi too. That’s sort of how it sounded from me before my visit to Forvo. 🙂
P.S. Too bad I didn’t think to go to Forvo on that Islands thing last week — they have an entry for sotavento with Spanish & Portuguese contributors and one English speaker contributing a translation and pronunciation of leeward
Dianne is out.