Final Jeopardy: The Theater (5-20-24)
Here are some more clues from the 5/20/2024 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.
I’M GETTING DOJA VU ($200) Not just Doja Cat but Billie Eilish & Lizzo uploaded early efforts to this platform, SC for short
($400) When Doja Cat began a song this unusual type of person “like me”, it took some back to an Adina Howard hit of the ’90s
WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME ($1000) A convoy of cars, perhaps escorting the president, & a sauce made with mayo & capers used on po’ boys
SANDWICH POTPOURRI ($400) This state’s first English language newspaper was the Sandwich Island Gazette & Journal of Commerce, which dates back to 1836
GARFIELD ON GARFIELD ($400) Chris Pratt: “Garfield the Cat is not the hard worker James Garfield was; just as Lincoln was the “Rail Splitter”, James was publicized for a youthful job in Ohio & was the subject of a bio called “From Canal Boy to President” by this author famous for rags to riches stories
($1000) Chris Pratt: “The young Garfield came to abolitionism via the firebrand Ohio Congressman Joshua Giddings & campus lectures at Williams College; as a radical Republican in Congress, he voted for all three of these so-called Reconstruction Amendments (Note: read the first sentence)
SAINTS ($1200) He not only founded the Society of Jesus, he also served as its first superior general
($2000) Pope from 1963 until his death in 1978, he was canonized in 2018
IT’S A DATE ($400) Last New Year’s Eve was a popular wedding date because you can say it this way, as if counting steps for a waltz
($2000) Stephen King wrote the novel “11/22/63”; Michael Eric Dyson wrote a nonfiction book about this date that “Changed America”
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: KIDS’ LIT
($200) For this Seussian pachyderm, the situation’s intense! As “your egg is so small, ma’am, and I’m so immense”
($400) “Well, I am pretty…there’s no denying that. Almost all spiders are rather nice-looking”, says this character
($600) In “How to Catch” one of these, “the night is dark, the streets are quiet, St. Patrick’s Day is near”
($800) Peter and Judy find a box containing this, “a jungle adventure game” that truly brings the jungle home to its players
($1000) A nameless talking cricket is not only introduced to this title character in Chapter 4 but also killed by him with a hammer
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Well, the ’14 roles’ in FJ threw me as I was certainly aware of the 1957 film ‘Twelve Angry Men’. In fact, I watched that film several times in the past. Anyways, I sure wish that the champion wouldn’t get so emotional after winning the games. In any case, I missed part of Single Jeopardy since the channel was preempted by a local thunderstorm/tornado warning for Michigan.
For Final, I said “The Book of Mormon”. However, the last Broadway show I saw was in 2010 (the opera doesn’t count, esp because, not on Broadway!) (The Book of Mormon opened in 2011.)
I said to myself, hand to God, “I’ll bet Howard’s wife would have known who founded the Society of Jesus!”
Man, it started to stress me a scoche how delayed Ivvone was in selecting categories. I think that was part of why all clues were not uncovered in the second round.
Otherwise, agree heartily with the rest of y’all!
Regarding the fj clue I was not familiar with the Broadway version. However the number “14” and no females sealed the deal for me. I have watched the old movie version many times on old movie TV channels. I don’t think I could sit through a Broadway version of the movie though. We like lively & upbeat Broadway shows.
I didn’t think it would be a stumper for the young contestants because too many young people have told us they like to watch old b/w movies on TV. They are fascinated with the telephone booths and the long cars back in the day. 🤣
As VJ said, Gregg all but sealed his ultimate fate with that too-large wager, then blew FJ. Somehow I came up with Final fairly quickly. Saw the movie ages ago. I was impressed that two of them got it.
Grant’s multiple miscues somehow didn’t matter in the long run. Both challengers gave a good account of themselves. Someone should have known the Sandwich Islands state and the rags-to-riches author. And the counting steps of a waltz were kind of obvious, especially with the “last New Year’s Eve” wordage. An acquaintance of mine got married on Jan 1 so he’d never forget his anniversary. I knew the numbers of the Reconstruction Amendments, but didn’t realize that’s what they were going for. I bet my wife would have known who founded the Society of Jesus. We have a school by that name in our city.
I came up with The Fully Monty lol.
It looked like Grant was so worried that Gregg was going to win, so he (Grant) kept buzzing in to try and get the lead.
Gregg fixed that with his $6K DD miss. I begged him not to do it. There weren’t enough clues left to cover it if he was wrong. Well, ultimately, it didn’t matter because he got FJ! wrong.
Grant is the first player to win a game with at least 10 incorrect responses since Ryan Fenster on 1/31/2018. Grant is also the first player to win a game with 11 incorrect since Jack Lechner on December 1, 1988. It was a crazy game today with a total of 17 incorrect responses in this game.