Final Jeopardy: Historic Groups (5-6-24)
Here are some more clues from the 5/xx/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.
STATE MOTTOES ($800) L’etoile du Nord, or “Star of the north”, isn’t the motto of Alaska but this state that’s the northernmost of the lower 48
KNOWN BY THEIR INITIALS ($800) He gave Jenny Lind the nickname “The Swedish Nightingale” & risked his fortune to bring her to the U.S. for a tour
($1200) He succeeded P.W. Botha as the president of South Africa
TIME FOR SOME TV “AD”S ($1200) The evil Dr. Claw is the perennial foe of this bumbling animated detective
($1600) From 2014 to 2019 Téa Leoni starred as State Department chief Elizabeth McCord, addressed by this title title
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($200) To stimulate an appetite & to dampen
($400) Movement from a higher to lower elevation & religious nonconformity
($600) A racing boat propelled manually & a cranium
($800) A device in scientific instruments & a vessel used in church
($1000) A small rabbit relative of the mountains & a unit of type size
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The one thing I with which I take issue is Carrie’s quizzical FJ response. Now, I only have a minor in French. She’s a professor of French. There is NO WAY she didn’t know that the FFL was formed in 1831. Then again, maybe she just wanted to put any answer down.
I have to be partial to Matthew, because I was a paramedic in my life!
Jason, it was Weckiai who went with the FFL. Carrie had the Italian army.
I don’t even drink anymore! I watched it last night, wrote the comment today. Sorry ’bout that!!
The FJ threw me, and yes, the carefully worded clues were absolutely correct (as far as it went). However, I might add that the entire Swiss Guard uniform is actually made up of the colors red, blue, yellow and orange (with orange not being a stripe).
Wikipedia [sic] jinxed herself by stating during the interview that the TOC was in her sights.
Don’t mess with the Jeopardy gods.
I think it was actually Ken who jinxed Weckiai — twice!! First, last Friday, in his intro he brought up the fact that she won her first 2 games without benefit of any Daily Doubles. Presto, on the second pick, Weckiai gets the DD and gets it wrong.
In this game, I can’t think of one good reason why he asked her if she thought she’d make the ToC, but I don’t think her response was overconfident. After 15 clues, she had over a $3K lead. But, yeah, it would have been better if she said she had high hopes.
Terrific late comeback by Matthew. He was barely involved in most of DJ.
I don’t say this often, but I found all 3 DDs easy. “Owls” and “church” were big clues on that middle one. Final was tough, had no idea, but it was a fair one.
In a school play 60+ years ago, my role was the guy who brought Jenny Lind to the US, among other feats. Knew the cartoon detective thanks to having had kids in the 1980s.