Final Jeopardy: 1990s No. 1 Songs (5-3-24)
Here are some more clues from the 5/3/2024 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.
WORLD SERIES MVPs ($200) It’s a solid bet to say this all-time hit king hustled home with the trophy for the Reds in 1975
($600) Win 2 games, save 1 & give up just 1 run in 21 innings & you’ll be MVP like Madison Bumgarner was with this NL team in 2014
($1000) Tossing a perfect game in the 1956 World Series, as this guy did, might have tipped the MVP scales a bit
STARTS WITH AN ANIMAL ($800) Burlesque verse, often in an irregular rhythm
($1200) It’s a fancy pitcher, like the one seen here (image)
POETS & POETRY ($800) A sick kid has “two pillows at my head” in Stevenson’s “Land of Counter-Pane”; a counterpane is this word with 2 rhyming syllables
($2000) Though it’s often printed broken into short lines, his “No man is an island” is a prose passage; “Air & Angels”, that’s a poem
WHEN I DIE ($1600) At jazz funerals in New Orleans, this ordinal phrase refers to the mourners that trail behind the casket, family & musicians
DELETE MY HISTORY ($2000) The Nazis tried to destroy copies of a propaganda film by this female director since it heavily featured a supposed Nazi traitor
3 clues stumped the panel in WORLD GEOGRAPHY:
($1200) In western Brazil you’ll find the Mirante Geodésico, marking this point in South America
($1600) The Nelson River drains this big lake into Hudson Bay
($2000) The Comoros Archipelago is at one end of the Indian Ocean channel with the name of this country
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($200) As a verb this piece of car talk means to choke or strangle someone
($400) Adjective for things in the order they happened, like a list of an author’s works in publication sequence
($600) It’s from the Greek for “love of humankind”; an old definition also meant the love of God for humanity
($800) This type of coal that contains more than 80% carbon generally has the highest heating value
($1000) This thin sheet of muscle below the lungs is unique to mammals
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Not one of the more memorable games. Henry was on the way to a runaway till he started missing clues, and the women finished strongly. And as Kevin said, he botched his wager and gave the champ an arguably undeserved third win.
For me, 90s music might as well be Ancient Chinese scripture. I know the Macarena song, but had no idea it was a person or had discernible lyrics. The World Series category was totally runnable for me. I have a ball autographed by the 1956 pitcher.
Stumpers usually puzzle me, but not tonight. Knowing presidents is mandatory. Tyler’s predecessor was a cinch, same with Jackson’s residence.
Hoover was a professor, I believe, at that prestigious university. That one was tough, I’ll concede. There’s a house in Newberg, OR where he once lived as a child for a time. We toured it in 2013. Also knew the author of “No Man Is an Island,” but unlike the erudite VJ, I’ve never read it.
You are too gracious, my friend. I thought “ick”, for much of the game. Weckiai didn’t seem as pushy this game, though. Still, low scoring. Her 3 day total is less than a goodly number of champs’ one day wins .
FJ was an easy one for me. Roxanne? 1978.
I didn’t read No Man is an Island either, Howard. I was referring to a song using that title. There’s a version by the Lettermen on YouTube. I really hated that song.
As for Weckiai, now that she’s survived a game with her weak categories, I wouldn’t be surprised if she cleans up next week!
I was actually rooting for Weckiai after she ended up as the underdog right before FJ. Kudos to her for getting the FJ right! As for me, I was never into the 1990s songs besides Céline Dion’s top hit ‘My Heart Will Go On’ so I couldn’t come up with a correct response for FJ. Regarding the game, I did about average.
I know William Weyser would say darn those daily doubles to Weckiai today.
Yes, but Weckiai won, because she got Final Jeopardy! right, and her challengers didn’t. That’s all that matters.
I’m surprised they were all stumped on the prior owner of Sherwood Forest–Tippecanoe and Tyler too? Easy.
Those poetry stumpers brought back memories.
In 5th grade, we all had to learn this “No Man is an Island” song, all about how no man stands alone and we need one another, but the kids didn’t feel that way when they got out of school and would sometimes beat the hell out of each other.
When I was 5 & 6, I would recite that RLS poem to myself and sick in bed.
“I was the giant great and still
That sits upon the pillow-hill,
And sees before him, dale and plain,
The pleasant land of counterpane.”
I was disappointed by Henry’s bet in FJ! He should have wagered no more than 1,599 to keep Weckiai locked out. Weckiai made a comeback from third place to first to win her third game.
Excellent point. $601 was the way to go. Deana was pretty locked in to betting $8201. He gambled away the rent money, so to speak.