Final Jeopardy: On the Map (5-20-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 5/20/2022 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.
WHAT COLLEGE ($1000) Portland school once tagged as a red hotbed because its name was incorrectly associated with journalist John
SOME LEGAL “A”S ($1600) Objection! Counsel isn’t seeking information but is badgering the witness! That’s this adjective!
Champ Ryan Long ran the One-Named Oscar Winners category:
($400) He won Best Song Score for “Purple Rain”
($800) Eminem won for the song “Lose Yourself” from this film
($1200) This comedian was u’nique when she won Best Supporting Actress for “Precious”
($1600) One-named designer Renié won for Costume Design on this 1963 film about a one-named Egyptian lady
($2000) Greek composer Vangelis ran away with his Oscar for this Olympics-centered film
ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — THE FARMER
($200) “Animal Farm” opens with the owner of Manor Farm locking the henhouses, but he’s drunk & forgets to shut the popholes
($400) Last name of Jonathan & Martha, Kansas farmers who famously adopted a boy from very far away
($600) Containing planting schedules & astronomical tables, it’s been around since 1792
($800) Some farmers use cow feed grown from plants that are called GMO, short for this
($1000) In feudalism a villein (with an “e”) was a type of these tenant farmers tied to a hereditary plot of land
ANSWERS: show
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More sloppy writing, it sounds like.
FJ was relatively easy. I mean, how much does anyone know about Siberia? Rasputin, Sakha Republic, Lake Baikal, Oymyakon.
As is becoming usual, I got the TS on page 1, not on page 2!
An easy FJ, and I’m only surprised that the two challengers were stumped.
Happy to see Ryan getting the lone solve and cleaning up this week as our 6 time champ. He now sits comfortably next to Zach Newkirk.
The Wikipedia article I linked to on that Legal “A” TS says that “badgering the witness” and the “A” adjective are two completely different things.
Objection! Counsel isn’t seeking information but is badgering the witness! That’s this adjective!
Thanks for bringing this up, VJ. I was puzzled by the “argumentative” answer.
As for me, I came up with ‘argumentative’.