Final Jeopardy: Sports & The Movies (5-31-23)
Here are some more clues from the 5/31/2023 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.
COUNTRIES IN SHORT ($600) This type of area that you might visit in the Caribbean country of Antigua & Barbuda “is just the beginning”
($800) Elevate your game in this nation, “The Pyrenean Country”
THE NATURAL ORDER All ($400) These flightless birds are in an order whose name means “wedge shaped”, describing their wings
($600) Hey, cousin the bush baby is a member of this order of mammals
($1000) Toothed & baleen whales are the 2 major subdivisions of this order of marine mammals
AROUND THE USA ($1000) The Empire Quarry in Bloomington, Indiana is famous for providing this building material for the Empire State Building
DUDE, HERE’S YOUR CAR ($600) Since 2002 this model, with a name from the Japanese word kanmuri, has been the USA’s bestselling passenger car
PRESIDENTIAL DOIN’S ($2000) Increased the minimum wage to $1; approved & opened the St. Lawrence Seaway
NUMERICAL LITERATURE ($400) In a 1969 novel Germans tell POWs that their residence is Schlachthof-Funf, this title place
LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN ($800) When in Edinburgh, visit Princes Street Gardens & its 200-foot monument to this 19th century author
($2000) Facing France, the White Cliffs of Dover are along the coast of this county
BARRIERS & DIVIDERS ($1600) Also sold under the brand names Lucite & Perspex, this acrylic material is used in prison to separate visitor & convict
($2000) Get a chuckle with this name for a sunk fence to separate animal from human territory; Monticello had one
“V”ERBS ($400) This 3-letter verb means to evaluate for approval
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Sneak Peek clues — 8-LETTER WORDS
($200) General term for the official monetary unit of a nation
($400) Golf is one type of this; parasol is another
($600) When a lumbering lineman talks to the referee before a play, he may be making himself this, able to legally catch a pass
($800) Type of complete breakdown that’s in the name of a bee colony disorder
($1000) Some workplaces have this network of linked computers, sort of the company-wide web
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I always like to go “all in” on sports clues, but this one got me. I knew “Bend it Like Beckham” wasn’t a franchise film and the year was wrong, but that’s all I could think of. Two stumpers (Pyrenean country and president who opened the Seaway) kept me from being shut out. I thought that overall, this was one of the toughest nights for clues.
I got FJ from Geena Davis, then, got to The Hunger Games. I couldn’t recall the year, so, thank you, VJ!
What a low scoring affair. Wasn’t Jeopardy!’s best moment. However, it may have been canny wagering by Ilhana, if she counted on Jeopardy! nerds to not know a sports clue.
I thought it was rather sloppy for not asking for more specific with Harrison. I, myself, was raising my voice (NOT yelling) at the TV, with “what about Benjamin? Clean it up!”
I wouldn’t say “softer”, but, the champ didn’t seem as intense this show.
Well, if the judges slipped up on that, maybe they will admit it. Idk if they will invite Kyle back since he wasn’t penalized on that clue.
Kyle has a legitimate beef and he should be brought back. Why was “Harrison” acceptable as a presidential answer but “Adams” was not? Inconsistency on the part of the judges.
I just watched that clue again and Kyle started with “Hen” but switched to just Harrison. That was his final answer, within time and it was accepted.
He was given a fair chance to select the right Adams. He simply chose the wrong one.
Then he should have had to clarify which Harrison as well.
Well, I explained how I saw it. You can always email the show for a definitive answer. (see the email link at the bottom of the recap)
If everyone on here who is complaining went to J Archive and read what is there you will see “Henry Harrison” as a response. What people think they hear may not be correct. J Archive is accepted as a reputable source for the show. Hopefully, that source will put this topic to rest instead of using innuendos.
Some people online are claiming he said “Henry Harrison,” which was accepted. All I heard was Harrison and didn’t know why that stood.
But, as VJ said, he wasn’t penalized on the Harrison one – in fact, he got away with one. That does not merit a second time at the podium, in my opinion.
This goes for your comment here, and the one below.
All three players had no money going into the first break. Ilhana had 0 and Kyle and Lisa both had -200. When was the last time all three players went into the first break with no one above 0. This is a dismal moment.
Don’t trigger this in Final Jeopardy again one more time this week, or else it will be a screwed-up week.
Still another triple stumper for FJ, and if this is going to be anything like last week, tomorrow’s FJ may be another shoo-in. Anyways, all we could come up with in FJ was ‘boxing’ (as the sport seems to be increasingly popular with women).
And we end the month with another triple stumper. We could get a Wednesday losing streak in the final as well.