Final Jeopardy: American Banking (5-30-24)
Here are some more clues from the 5/30/2024 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.
SLANGUAGE ($600) It makes sense that rizz, meaning charmingly seductive, comes from this word
LAY CHARACTERS ($1200) Played on stage by Joe Morton, he has some big speeches in David Hare’s play, “Stuff Happens” about the war in Iraq
($2000) Actors love playing Melissa & Andy in this epistolary play by A.R. Gurney & sometimes do so in combinations you wouldn’t expect
THANKS A “MILL”-ION! ($2000) Consisting of many small flowers & plants, it was a popular style of background for tapestries in the 15th century
SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE ($800) In one version of this song, Elton John uses the phrase “it’s the wheel of fortune”
($2000) This rapper said “life is good” with Drake & repped the “Low Life” with Abel Tesfaye
CANNON EVENTS ($2000) In 1453 this city’s emperor declined to buy cannons…& then saw them used against his own walls by the Turks
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: WE HAVE FOOD AT HOME
($200) You going all the way to Nobu? I’m gonna walk over to my cupboard & eat this, the chunk white albacore kind
($400) As tempting as that A5 Wagyu filet mignon looks, I think I’ll stay home and make this sammy with a common first name in it
($600) Why get takeout when we have a perfectly good half-eaten Hass one of these in the fridge? Just put it on some toast
($800) Pay for water? Not when we have a Persian one of these gourds; it’s 96% water & we can be fancy & put i in our tap water
($1000) Maybe we use cheap scotch since we don’t have kirsch to make this flaming cherry dessert
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I knew Final from watching SO much TCM! When I lived in NYC, I lived in Brooklyn and Queens. I only did one month in Manhattan, but that was at Mt Sinai, uptown.
Brad looked like he was kinda just taking shots. Adriana did admirably.
I did miss the one TS about the city and cannons, because I used the even more ancient name!
Not sure I’d have known Final if I hadn’t grown up in NYC. I recall Joe DiMaggio doing ads for them and for Mr. Coffee. Very often, when driving through the Bowery and stopping at a light, you’d be greeted by a “Bowery bum” who’d squirt some water on your windshield, wipe it with a squeegee, and demand a tip.
“Sioux” was key in the first DD (Sioux City, IA), and also numerous wannabe presidents flock to the state before the caucuses. That was right in the clue. Didn’t see the show, but I remember “Marat/Sade” playing on Broadway back then. Another of those rare nights I hit all 3 DDs and Final. But other than the city’s cannon-less emperor and the veggie in the water, the stumpers were unkind.
I watched only the first round, then went back to hockey when it became obvious who was going to win.
Howard, I agree with you about “Sioux” appearing in the 1st DD being obvious. I think Adriana probably was thinking that it couldn’t be that easy because she’s really sharp imo. I also remember the Joe DiMaggio commercials. I will go out on a limb and state Adriana will win 5 games or more. We shall see.
Another contestant had the same name as Sandee with a one letter difference — Sandie Baker was a 6x champ and a semifinalist in the 2014 ToC
Well, I didn’t live during the Depression so I naturally wouldn’t have been aware of the Bowery Bank. With that being said, the FJ was still fair game.
The other way to get it was the slum angle but, of course, as Howard said, being from the NYC area helped. My oldest brother used to sing the Bowery Song. I don’t remember where he learned it.
The Bow’ry, the Bow’ry
They say such things,
And they do strange things
On the Bow’ry! The Bow’ry!
I’ll never go there anymore
Yes, being a New Yorker might have given someone an edge. As I had stated VJ, the FJ was fair game. I mean, I have known about the Bowery Boys, and that alone should have tipped me off (or anyone else for that matter). Actually, I could only come up with Harlem, but I knew that was going to be dead in the water.
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