Final Jeopardy: Literature (5-24-24)
Here are some more clues from the 5/24/2024 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.
CROSSWORD CLUES “2” ($600) No. 7 on Time’s “Top 10 End-of-the-World Prophecies” (3 squares)
($800) Online type of “authentication” (7 squares)
YOUR FIRST CONCERT ($200) I was there in 2007 when this original lead singer for Van Halen reunited with the band for a concert tour
($600) I rang in 2000 with this Vermont band as they lit the morning sky, incorporating “Sunrise” from “Also Sprach Zarathustra” in a jam
UP IN THE AIR ($1200) In tennis a drop shot & ($000) this lofted shot make a lethal combination, as practiced by Carlos Alcaraz
($2000) Known for stealing food from other birds in midair, this type of bird shares a name with a speedy 3-mast ship of yore
INDIGENOUS ACTORS & ACTRESSES ($2000) In “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, Native American actor Will Sampson played this character who escapes an asylum
RAMBLING WORDS ($400) A part of speech is in this word for long-winded
($800) In 1906 this compound word for an incessant talker was considered a disease that “may stop kissing while on auto trips”
The players missed these 3 clues in GEOGRAPHIC ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER:
($1200) The “table” city southeast of Phoenix & the seat of Iowa State University
($1600) A river that flows through Florence & a Mediterranean port city of Algeria
($2000) The onetime capital of New Granada & one of the southernmost Caribbean islands
GEOGRAPHIC ANAMGRAMS answers: show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: DATE OF BIRTH
($200) April 24, 1800: Early on, only the President & Vice-President had borrowing privileges
($400) Jan. 3, 2009, with the mining of the Genesis Block
($600) This force: Nov. 10, 1775, a month after the Navy it rides with
($800) Sept. 13, 1957: The first group meeting of this organization for those with a problem at the track or the tables
($1000) July 26, 1848: This university with alumni like Bud Selig & Frank Lloyd Wright
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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I should have gotten FJ fairly quickly since I still have the old Beowulf video game which I had played from time to time. Now, regarding the original manuscript of ‘Beowulf’ printed in OE, the first word of the epic poem could translate into just about anything as it wasn’t well defined at all. Anyways, I believe that scholars from whatever age still had a great deal of trouble in deciphering even Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’ which was written in ME no less. Accordingly, any translation of the ‘Beowulf’ epic poem must have resembled something like the Manhattan Project to be sure.
FJ stumped me too. My friends who went to a different HS had to read it, though.
Last 2 DDs were not overly challenging. The Nez Perce chief is well-known in my neck o’ the woods. All 3 whiffed on VH’s lead singer, shame, shame. Same with the Vermont band and the tennis shot. The bird/ship, indigenous actor from “Cuckoo’s Nest” and long-winded word also not difficult. “Auto trips” practically gave away the compound word for talker. The $1200 and $1600 geographic anagrams were cinches. I doubt I’ve ever known as many as 10 stumpers!
Again, agree with all. I really think that Amal is a “cooler”. Some players (some of whom become champs) lead to lower scoring and/or error filled games.
The Africa anagram, though – it’s been over a year ago, but, I said it’s the Jeopardy standby when you need a 4 letter country!
I got FJ. I don’t know why, as, I’ve never read it.
Jason, I agree with you about Amar. He’s one to watch imo. I got fj also. Had learned about Beowulf way back in the day in high school. It’s very unique indeed and hard to forget once you learn it imo.
Chad has just banned you from any future visits. 🙂
Don’t EVEN mention his buddy Togo!
Anna Marie had not rung in throughout Double Jeopardy! and that’s a shame.
How so? She had at least 10 chances where the guys weren’t in her way
Well she did. But didn’t know all the answers throughout Double Jeopardy!.
yeah, uh, maybe they ought to consider easier material or maybe a harder test to get on the show