Final Jeopardy: Team Names (5-5-23)
Here are some more clues from the 5/5/2023 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.
EVERYTHING’S COMING UP ROSE ($400) In 1986 she won an Emmy award for playing Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls”
($600) After appearing in the “Ziegfeld Follies”, she starred in “Star and Garter”
NORTHERN LANDS ($1600) In 1596 the feisty peasants of Finland rose up against the well-armed Swedes with only these head-bashing items the war is named for
($2000) This man credited as the first to reach the North Pole proved that Greenland is an island
A MUSICAL BOUQUET ($1600) Her song “Smile” was a hit in the U.K. early in her career
“OH”, YES! ($2000) Now extinct, this earliest horse was a dog-sized ancestor that lived in North America 50 million years ago
DUNCE, DUNCE ($2000) Thersites in this Shakespeare play says Agamemnon “has not so much brain as earwax”
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Sneak Peek clues — QUICK PLANETS
($200) About half the size of earth, it has a 24.6-hour day
($400) For 20 years in every 248, it’s further from the sun than Pluto
($600) It was the first planet explored by a spacecraft, 1962’s Mariner 2
($800) Leda is one of its more than 50 named moons
($1000) It’s surrounded by phenomena named A, B, C, D, E, F & G
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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I thought the same way as Howard (just not as in depth), and that’s how I got Cubs.
Like a broken record, I got about half the TS correct.
The little preview blurb shows Hannah on Monday not wearing spectacles, and having her hair down. That will be something to see!
Loved that FJ. At first I thought it had to be one of the NY teams, like the Dodgers, then remembered Chicago is the other city with two. So Cubs matched well with “young.” Figured Hannah would nail it, being a Chicagoan.
(Now that I think of it, Boston had two teams at one time. And so did Philadelphia.)
Tough stumpers except for the 1956 revolution and the Rose Nylund actress. (Did she ever reveal what was in kerflugenbugen?)