Final Jeopardy: Asia (5-25-23)
Here are some more clues from the 5/25/2023 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.
FLAG TERMINOLOGY ($400) The type of pennant seen here has this avian appendage name referring to its deeply forked end
NUMERICAL WORDS & PHRASES ($200) It’s the basic form most taxpayers use to report income & file their return
($800) On “Get Smart”, Don Adams was Agent this; it also means to get rid of someone or something
CROSSWORD CLUES “V” ($1200) Heifetz or Midori (9 letters)
($2000) Describing one who bears live young, not from eggs (10 letters)
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Sneak Peek clues — COASTAL WATERS
($200) On Algeria’s north: this sea
($400) On Norway’s north: this ocean
($600) On Wisconsin(‘s northern end): this Great Lake
($800) On Sudan’s east: this sea
($1000) On Myanmar’s west: this bay
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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This panel of players didn’t strike me as typically “Jeopardy bright”. Maybe Megan, but, the $1000 V clue should have been gotten by someone. Then again, maybe it’s just that they’re not that charismatic.
Unusually, I got more than half of the TS, along with all DD, and final. As far as final goes, my thought was “what else could it be?”
And, the wagering strategy for Megan and Ed was wanting.
I actually saw the FJ wagers as intelligent. Ed’s $2401 wager insured he’d beat Jesse by $1 in case Jesse bet $0, as unlikely as that was. Jesse was more likely to bet $10001, which he did. If both got FJ wrong, then Ed could win with $9999, depending on Megan’s success or failure.. Megan’s $1200 wager was correct. She had to figure Ed would bet it all, Jesse would bet $10001, and hope both would miss. And if she missed too, she’d have $5K, which would be enough to win since Jesse would sink to $4799 and Ed to $0. So I’m OK with all 3 wagers. (Although as it might have played out, a larger wager by Megan would have put her past Ed if he’d gone down to $9999 with a wrong response and a right one by her.)
Boy howdy, now I look like a simpleton! I didn’t EVEN see that! Thank you!
Must confess that they all got FJ and I didn’t. But the IRS needs to investigate all 3 of them because it appears they’ve never filed an income tax return. Good grief!
Lots of gettable stumpers: the astronaut who went into space 35 years apart (DD); the earthy group at the Globe (DD) (got this only because I knew it as the famous improv group that spawned a number of actors/comedians and not as a Shakespearean audience); 3-word name for Shakespeare; Luxembourg’s monarch (anyone remember Peter Sellers in “The Mouse that Roared”?); Don Adams agent # (“Missed it by THIS MUCH”); Heifetz/Midori.
Guess I’m happy for Jesse because he’s from Bayside, Queens, NYC, where my uncle/aunt/cousins lived, about 5 miles from where we did.
That tax form snafu was comical, Howard. Ed obviously thought the clue meant the form you get from an employer. Then Megan mixed it up even more. For $200, Jesse didn’t even want to get involved.
On the very slight chance you don’t know the origin of the word snafu, look it up. It’s somewhat amusing but not really repeatable in a G-rated publication/site.
Howard, What baffled me on the IRS triple stumper is that one of the contestants was an accountant. 🤔 I’m assuming that an Accounting Director would be an Accountant.
Good catch. Yes, one would think so. W-4 and W-2 made me cringe. Jesse’s in the Facebook contestants group, so I may throw him some shade about that one.
The FJ was a dead give away this time around. Actually, the way the FJs were going lately, I would have to readily admit that I expected another triple stumper, and then some.