Final Jeopardy: Novel Titles (5-9-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 5/9/2022 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.
ALL ABOUT AMPHIBIANS ($1000) From the mistaken notion that they could bark, some North American salamanders are called water dogs or these
COLORFUL ALBUMS ($800) This Elton John double album is full of great songs, including the original “Candle In The Wind”
MENACE TO SOBRIETY ($600) This potent potable is the star attraction in a Bacchanalian, a Corpse Reviver No. 1 & of course, an Alexander
U.S. GEOGRAPHY ($2000) Seen here (image), the desert known as the Great this occupies large parts of Nevada & Utah
LET’S GET NAUTICAL ($1200) Renovated and in dry dock, this flagship of Lord Nelson remains in active commission
($1600) In 2005 the Navy commissioned a Seawolf class nuclear-powered submarine named for this president & former naval officer
($2000) Displayed at Fort Gaines in Alabama is the anchor from this “Damn the torpedoes” admiral’s ship used during the Battle of Mobile Bay
THE NUREMBERG TRIALS ($1600) Clue Crew Sarah: “The record discloses no excuses for this man” was the court’s verdict on this notorious Nazi & Luftwaffe chieftain who cheated the hangman by taking cyanide in his cell
The players got three of the clues in MAKE IT SINGULAR
($400) Dice
($800) Apices
($1200) Criteria
($1600) Errata
($2000) Corpora
ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — INTERNATIONAL RHYME TIME
($200) A skinny person from Helsinki
($400) Surrounded by a river, Gezira in Cairo
($600) Confections from the world’s longest mountain chain
($800) Scary Japanese theater
($1000) A Spanish house in Kenya’s second-largest city
ANSWERS: show
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Well, looking back, I DID comment on the 5 unrevealed clues! Retrospectively, Ken did, as I said, clamp down on the chatter, but, in that April game, I don’t know if it was players or host fault.
I’m trying to be equitable here!!
Pretty funny just got back from Key West and picked up “A Farewell to Arms” in gift shop since previoulsly never read it. Still didn’t get the clue!
Well, not a great game, but, still engaging. Karim looked, to me, line he was a bit “dazzled” or “star struck”. The three cities DD I got. Also, frankly, I thought the nautical ones were easy.
I thought Emily was going to challenge, but, good on Danielle for the correct wager. Even though it’s the same wager the prior champ would have made, this was simply more interesting, instead of sounding like reading flash cards.
Oh, and, I had NO idea of the FJ clue!
What is so terribly wrong with Mayim Bialik? Actually, I think that she is doing a terrific job as a Jeopardy host.
Nothing is wrong with Mayim. She certainly does not deserve the nasty comments that some people feel compelled to make about her.
I agree absolutely. She is doing just fine.
Well, Rick, what was “so terribly wrong” seems to have tempered a bit. As I said in another comment, my local station shows old shows Saturday evening. Mayim was smooth and even. When she came back this season, her delivery became choppy and halting and hesitant, enough to break the flow of contestant responses. I was guessing that she had to clear each approval or disapproval with the judges. It reminded of the rowing term “catching a crab”. Last night, she was smoother. Still, which round was it when 2 clues were left uncovered?
It’s subjective, of course, but, for me, put Ken and Mayim side by side, and, Ken wins.
@Jason, that was the second round that TWO clues worth $800 were left uncovered. Evidently, you have forgotten that when Ken came back on 4/11/22, there were FIVE clues worth $7200 left uncovered. Be fair!
Now that you mentioned it @JP, I am a fan of american literature but still this novel was something that will be considered in my bucket list.
We begin the week with a triple stumper as today’s Final Jeopardy was a tough one. I am sure that William Weyser would say darn those daily doubles to Karim.
Unless you’re a real fan of American literature and have memorized the years that popular novels were published, I don’t know how you’d make the inference. Going from “retirement” to the novel’s title seems like an enormous leap. Very tough clue, in my estimation.
JP…I was unfamiliar with the poem, and had never read the book (although I knew of the book), but it was the idea of the knight’s retirement that brought a farewell to arms to me almost immediately. There’s no accounting for the connections the brain makes, sometimes.