Final Jeopardy: Shakespeare’s Characters (5-23-23)
Here are some more clues from the 5/23/2023 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.
AVIATION ($800) To honor a fallen comrade, the planes seen here perform this aerial salute
HISTORICAL HODGEPODGE ($400) Baa baa, Kara Koyunlu, i.e. these, have you any land? Yes, in 1410 our alliance conquered from Azerbaijan south to Baghdad
A CENTURY OF TIME MAGAZINE COVERS ($2000) Wartime cover subjects have included May 18, 1942’s “Nimitz, Commander” here–a big place to be in charge of
ENDS WITH A SILENT CONSONANT ($800) To give way gradually to injuries or despair
($2000) A compote involves slow-cooked fruit & syrup while this sauce seen here has been pureed & strained
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Sneak Peek clues — ANIMALS IN LITERATURE
($200) In Dodie Smith’s tale, Pongo & Missis are the parents of 15 puppies, but the 17 of them becomes this title number by the end
($400) Rudyard Kipling’s Hathi, one of these animals, helps Mowgli by trampling a village of evildoers
($600) In a book by Paul Gallico, Thomasina is one of these pets that channels the Egyptian goddess Bastet & saves her owner’s life
($800) In this Greek comedic play from 405 B.C., the title characters form a chorus whose lines include “brekekekex, ko-ax, ko-ax”
($1000) Spumadore is Prince Arthur’s trusty horse in this 1590s allegorical poem by Edmund Spenser
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Okay, enough is enough. If you’re mad about the ruling, take it up with the show — the link to the email is at the bottom of the recap.
The clue asked for the two names in the 16th century Shakespeare play. It didn’t ask for the root of the names meaning blessed. Idk why we have to go through this every time there’s a ruling some people don’t like, but it is or should be well known by Jeopardy! viewers that whether a misspelling gets accepted depends on how the pronunciation is affected as well as the discretion of the judges.
Any more comments objecting to the ruling will be deleted.
VJ, Thank you. I guess some people chose not to read your post below which is 100% correct.
Posted by VJ yesterday in case anyone missed it:
[By the way, “Béatrice et Bénédict” is a comic opera by Berlioz first performed in Germany in 1862.]
Well I certainly didn’t complain about the ruling VJ. In fact, only a very few over here did. After all, ‘Benedict’ and ‘Benedick’ are clearly two separate and distinct names. I mean, if I were one of the Jeopardy judges calling the shots, I would have (grudgingly) negated Ben’s response.
Well, in fact, Rick, the last 3 comments were all complaints the day after the show aired. I thought that was enough to represent the people who are unhappy with the ruling.
BullHockey!
French opera of Much Ado About Nothing spells is Benedict. Shouldn’t that count?
Exactly at what point in these games is it allowed to accept incorrect spelling and then not to?? The judges throughly accepted spelling errors earlier in this series of competition!! The root of the name was correct!
Really nice comeback by Lynn, and for once, a wise wager by a challenger.
I was kind of ready to see Ben go, but we’ll see him again someday.
Other than the Cold War meeting DD, which was not difficult, I got skunked on all the other DDs, the listed stumpers, and FJ.
I had the same experience as you with the stumpers, Howard. As for the DDs, I got the first one, my daughter got the second one and we both missed the third! However, I have seen that spelling of Turkey — I just didn’t know it was an official change.
I wonder if the clues on that country will reflect the change henceforth. The Cote d’Ivoire officially changed their name to French in 1986 and made it known that they don’t want to see Ivory Coast or any other translation of the name. I haven’t noticed that affecting Jeopardy! clues.
I had 10 years of French, so I love the name Cote d’Ivoire. We have a local news reporter here from that nation. She speaks beautifully accented English. Name is Christelle Koumoue’.
Well, I said “Beatrice & Benedict”. I’ve seen the play twice, once in London and once with Emma Thompson & Kenneth Branagh), and read it. It never registered that his name was one which I’ve never even heard before! (Except probably in the live plays, where it swooshed over my head that it wasn’t Benedict.) This was a crappy (am I allowed to say that?) final jeopardy. Sort of like that clue a couple of weeks ago where they all gave their best pronunciation of “Solzhenitsyn” (sp?) and were all ruled wrong.
Ben had a minor mistake on Final Jeopardy, although the word “Benedict” is unacceptable. That caused a triple stumper on Final Jeopardy for today. Ben wagered his score down to a score less than Lynn’s score. Lynn becomes the winner, and she’s going to play again tomorrow. Ben will be coming back in the next Tournament of Champions!
Ben(edict) rules, but sadly not tonight 😢 . Tough loss for Ben, and we will forevermore rememember that it’s the ‘dick’ that’s the blessed one in Will’s play 😂
Ugh! I also went with Romeo and Juliet for FJ, but Ben clearly gave it a good shot.
Well done Lynn.
While I think the judges ruled correctly in FJ, I was perplexed on ruling Ben correct on the clam clue in the first round where he tried 2 or 3 times, saying something like “qwags”; considering it is a 2-syllable word – quahogs – I can’t see how all his 1-syllable attempts were acceptable.
I agree, DC. That was just plain weird!!
Strange ending Ben got it right.
Spelling in fj??
Man, Ben was agonizingly close, he had the name spelled Beatrice correctly but he did not give the second correct character name of Benedick but instead spelled with a T at the end instead of the K, meaning he was very properly ruled incorrect. That cost him the game and the title, It also cost him a chance to become a double digit winner. Tough ruling for Ben but this was a 100 percent correct call from the judges. Benedict and Benedick are pronounced differently so that’s why Ben’s response was not accepted. Last week Erica Johnson’s response of Appalachin Trail was accepted while Ben’s response of Beatrice and Benedict was not accepted. So these two responses should be added to the spelling list decisions.
Right, Kevin, I’ll add them later in the week — right now, I have to save my energy for the Masters Tournament recaps tonight and tomorrow!
Thank you. This is like when almost a year ago we had a controversial ruling of Harriet Tubman when Sadie left out an N in Harriet Tubman and was ruled incorrect by the judges.
I don’t think those times are similar at all, Kevin. She ran out of time to complete her response. Ben either forgot the right spelling of Benedick or he always thought it was Benedict.
Ouch. Sorry about that, Ben, but with 9 wins and over $250,000, we’ll see you in the Tournament of Champions.
Well, I thought Ben’s runaways had to end sometime and I had a hunch it would be today. If he had to go out completely though, at least it was with an easy mistake to make.
By the way, “Béatrice et Bénédict” is a comic opera by Berlioz first performed in Germany in 1862