Final Jeopardy: Sports & Entertainment (5-27-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 5/27/2022 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.
QUICK HISTORY ($800) Adding to the Winter Palace, Catherine the Great began this museum in 1764
($1000) Ready to hit the spa? Then let’s head to the town it’s named for in the Ardennes in this European country
MAKEUP ($400) It sounds like you are making a cake, but this trendy technique to make skin look flawless uses concealer & foundation
LITERARY SHIPPING ($1600) “The cruel rocks, they gored her side” is from the Longfellow poem “The Wreck of” this vessel
(That link goes to the poem. This FF article covers Longfellow’s Most Famous Poems)
THEY SANG SUPER SEXY ’70S LYRICS ($1200) A disco queen: “Dim all the lights, sweet darlin’, ‘Cause tonight it’s all the way”
EUROPE ($1600) This Italian name for a major city in the south of the country is in the lyrics of “That’s Amore”
“V”OCABULARY ($2000) Meaning pertaining to glass, it also precedes humor in the name of a jellylike substance in the eyeball
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Sneak Peek clues — I’LL HAVE THIRDS
($200) It says you can’t be forced to let soldiers live in your house
($400) This annual observance that’s on the third Sunday in June should seem familial to you
($600) This third Book in the King James Bible says, “It shall be a perpetual statute… that ye eat neither fat nor blood”
($800) This general who died late in 1945 led the U.S. Third Army on major campaigns of World War II including Normandy
($1000) In 1996 this Reform Party presidential candidate, a Texas businessman, got third place with 8 million votes
ANSWERS: show
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VJ, guess what movie was on channel 43 here last night? Yes, The Poseidon Adventure, can you believe it? It was just about over when I turned the tv on, but there was Red Buttons, Ernest Borgnine, Carole Lynley, and the other remaining survivors being lifted into a helicopter!
Wow, Rhonda, that’s crazy! That was such a great movie with so many great actors. Our girl Shelley Winters was nominated for a Supporting Actress Oscar and the theme song “The Morning After” won an Oscar. (The song plays over this Oscar montage)
That is so nuts, VJ. Yes, I loved that movie, what a great cast and I loved the theme song, too, it was also quite a hit, as I recall. Thanks so much for the link.
The same thing happened with The Paper Chase not all that long ago, you were the one who told me that time.
Regarding the FJ, never heard of him.
I got the first 4 TS in a row, then, was (literally) hit and miss on the rest. I had to laugh at “Edmund Fitzgerald”!
Aaron seemed unsure; maybe that was just his meter of speaking. Likewise, if possible, measure the time it took for Mayim to tell Shrimal that her DD response was correct. It sounded, to me, like Mayim was surprised at her response. Again, maybe just meter.
I concur with all y’all that said you either know this FJ or you don’t. That reminds me – sometime in the past year or two, I heard Brad Paisley speak of his friends, and he said his Dad was number one, but, Peyton was #2. I found that surprising; I would have guessed it was just some ad agency gimmick.
Sightly refreshing to see Ryan not in first place. Just a little change of pace.
Those of us who are sports junkies knew the Omaha reference immediately. Otherwise, I thought that was a tough FJ that would be impossible to guess correctly.
No idea what Aaron was thinking when he bet $0. He had to know Ryan would wager at least $1801, if not everything, and therefore would have to hope Ryan missed FJ.
Not a bad group tonight, but they sure left a lot on the table. “A Star is born” subject; Russian museum; wrecked vessel; disco queen; Italian city in “That’s Amore;” and the humorous part of the eye.
Evidently, there are two humors of the eye — here’s an old clue on the other one:
YOUR EYE ($600) Don’t laugh, but behind the cornea is a chamber filled with a clear fluid called the aqueous this
That was from a Sept. 2009 match that coincidentally had four categories based on the first line of “That’s Amore” (The Moon Hits – Your Eye – Like a Big Piece of Pie? – That’s a Moray!)
Yes, aqueous humor in front, vitreous humor (of which there is MUCH more) in back. Also, in the very, very rare chance you encounter a “globe rupture” (eyeball tear), don’t push on it. All the aqueous and vitreous you have now is all you’ll ever have.
Thanks, Jason, good to know
This was one where, even if you’re not a sports fan, paying attention to commercials would have helped. There’s one where a whole office of Peyton clones are saying “Omaha”. Anyway, as a guy born and raised in Philly….Go, Ryan!
@jk, I found one on YouTube and put it in the recap. I hope that’s the one you are talking about. I have never seen that or any other Peyton Manning commercial. I was watching a lot of old westerns and they were playing Medicare enrollment commercials. As Rhonda and I mentioned this morning, there was one with Joe Montana and one with Joe Namath. Those were the only ones I ever saw with football players and they had a bunch of others to the point where I could not bear to watch that channel anymore!
One of those FJs where serious sports fans snap-answer correctly, but is going to be near-impossible for anyone else. I think one more clue (the sport he played, the year he retired, etc) might have made it more fair.
Ryan does not seem like an 11-day champ, but at some point, the numbers don’t lie.
Keep it going, Ryan. So many want to see you go for many more wins! Congratulations!
Happy to see Ryan tying with Jonathan Fisher with the number of wins. Keep the wins going Ryan!