Final Jeopardy: Countries’ Languages (5-22-24)
Here are some more clues from the 5/22/2024 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.
THE DRAMA OF TELEVISION ($600) Here’s the truth– life is murder for Madeline Martha MacKenzie & Bonnie Carlson on this drama adapted from a bestseller
($800) Taraji P. Henson came in like a Lyon & faced the music as Terrence Howard’s ex-wife Cookie on this drama
IN THE WEEDS ($1000) Milk, Russian & bull are types of this prickly stemmed weed
TREATIES ($1600) In 1846 the U.S. & Great Britain signed the Treaty of Oregon establishing this parallel as the main intl. boundary in the Pacific NW
BOOKS FROM THE LAST FEW YEARS ($1600) This 2021 Andy Weir book about a plucky astronaut sounds like it may be a long shot
($2000) Good times for this author: his Emmett-Till-haunted “The Trees” won praise & “Erasure” became the film “American Fiction”
FICTIONAL MOVIE SPORTS TEAMS ($800) A lead character in “Whip It” is Babe Ruthless, a jammer on the Hurl Scouts team in this sport
($1600) Adam Sandler played him, “The Waterboy” for the Mud Dogs of South Central Louisiana State
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: MEDICAL CROSSWORD CLUES
($400) Adjective meaning delivered to the blood in vein (11 letters)
($800) avian name for varicella (10 letters)
($1200) Nether region tubes names for an Italian (9 letters)
($1600) To find the issue the doc samples some tissue (6 letters)
($2000) Type of shock from a severe allergic reaction (12 letters)
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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So, I first said The Congo (DRC), then I said, maybe Angola, but went back to DRC. Oh well!
Not much more to say.
I did above average in the game, but chose Brazil for FJ. Wow, a half dozen Portuguese spoken countries in Africa to choose from no less. Well, I knew that Brazil wasn’t going to fly, and I sure wasn’t disappointed on that account. Anyways, some of the DDs were a cinch.
I was surprised Chris couldn’t get Juliet ‘s line but we still got a chuckle out of How now brown cow… I text that phrase to my daughter if I start worrying where she is
Last year, Mali and Burkina Faso both dropped French as their official language. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a clue about one or the other these days.
Woo-hoo, the two colonies I’ve always associated with Portugal are Brazil and Angola. Those other languages sounded African, so the latter was my guess.
The silent-letter timekeeper seemed obvious to me. Never saw it once, but knew the Taraji Henson series. Can’t say I knew the parallel stumper, but I do know there’s a freeway marker on I-5 near Salem marking the exact halfway point between the equator and the Arctic circle. If you’d ever watched that unique sport, you’d have known what a jammer does. (“KC Bomber” with Raquel Welch wasn’t half-bad either.)
I hope William will say darn those daily doubles to Chris today.
Well, that reversal was rough. Chris wouldn’t have won anyway, it’s true. But to claw his way back to $10K+ and lose $4K right before FJ! had to be a big letdown.
I hope this will be enough for them to stop with “the KJV version” once and for all. Check it out — ‘why have you forsaken me’ is in the majority nowadays
Matthew 27:46
Well, that is not nice of the staff and crew, VJ.
Well said
Have you checked all of your different versions of the Bible? Veggietales never mentioned it. Especially McGee and Me, Kingsley’s meadow, Secret Adventures, and Angel Wings.