Final Jeopardy: Theater (5-2-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 5/2/2022 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.
MIAMI NEWS CLUES ($400) The 1980s TV show “Miami Vice” changed the reputation of the city to one of chicness & glitz & made Florida a more desired film & TV location; these two actors, playing Crockett & Tubbs, added to the scenery
($1000) A Miami custody battle became national news in 2000 with a struggle to keep this young boy in America; a raid by Federal agents settled the issue by taking the boy & returning him to his Cuban father
REPTILES ($200) Any reptile with a bony shell encasing its body is one of these (or these)
($1000) Venomous lizards of North America include the Mexican beaded & this one seen here (image)
COLLEGE FOOTBALL HISTORY ($400) In 2019 this Clemson QB became the second true freshman to win a national title as a starter
($600) The 1951 Army football team that lost to Navy 42-7 had been decimated by cadet expulsions for this
($1000) This Notre Dame hero who died at age 25 in 1920 helped pay his school expenses as a pool shark
CONGRESS IN THE 19TH CENTURY ($2000) Latin for “force of the country”, these 2 words titled an 1878 Act that prevented the use of the army to enforce law in the South
TEA TIME ($1600) Grades of tea leaf quality include S for souchong and P for this
A VOW OF NO VOWELS ($1600) An impossibly perfect spot: TP
($2000) Watery, and we hope you see the humor: QS
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($400) Oliver Tambo was instrumental in the fight against apartheid as president of South Africa’s ANC, short for this
($800) After leaving Moscow as a lad, he studied computer science at Stanford where he met Larry Page & it was search engines, go!
($1200) Seen here, Anne of Austria, mother to the Sun King, was married to this ruler
($1600) Relating to Chinese/Russian relations, 1923’s Sun-Joffe Manifesto was presented by Adolf Joffe & this man
($2000) This former State Department official and accused spy leaves court in 1949 (image) during one of his perjury trials, a big Cold War story
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Predictable, to the dollar, wager = “boring”, at least to me. I think Mattea chatters when she’s nervous. Low dollar affair, also boring. I thought the challengers had her on the buzzer in the Jeopardy! round. The Boston Tea Party one could not have been easier.
“Single sanction” honor systems have one punishment – expulsion. Federal service academies have removed that. I attended a military college that, to this day, maintains a single sanction, and we looked down on the “soft”, dishonorable West Point, Annapolis, and USAFA tolerators, who would accept an honor violator to remain in their ranks. The federal position is that too much money has been invested to kick them out.
The whole point is the TS about Army. I said, “honor violations”, and I don’t know if I could have guessed the correct response to the clue, if prompted to be “more specific”.
I did not get FJ. I said “King Lear”. I thought that there was another FJ in the past year about the same topic, but, then, just now, it came to me that it was Edgar Allan Poe. (Notably, Poe was booted from West Point, but, not due an honor violation.)
Yes, perhaps ironically would have been better than fittingly for Final Jeopardy.
Wasn’t Agnew VP after Nixon was VP (under Nixon as Pres) and Johnson came after?
no, Agnew was Nixon’s VP but Nixon was President after LBJ. It went
Truman / Barkley
Eisenhower / Nixon
Kennedy / LBJ
LBJ / Humphrey
Nixon / Agnew, then Ford
Ah, right, Thanks
No vp under Johnson until Humphrey was sworn in 1965.
A tough FJ to be sure.
My first acquaintance with this play was in a Little Rascals episode with Spanky reciting Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, Countrymen” speech. Funny stuff
Well this game wasnt a runaway and there is a good chance this could be mattea’s undoing within this week if she does not score another runaway. But still 15k on a lot of easy triple stumpers is not surprising. I mean our champ made a gutsy move last week in final and she could have added 8000 dollars out of all the missed clues today. At least 2 out of the 3 daily doubles were nailed. I would like to see the board cleared and less triple stumper tomorrow hopefully. This final was pretty easy if the opponents knew which one of the booth brothers played ceaser