Final Jeopardy: 1980s Fads (5-9-24)
Here are some more clues from the 5/9/2024 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.
LET’S GO TO THE GEOPARK ($800) Learn about the Canadian this, the huge rock formation that underlies much of northeast North America, at Quebec’s Percé Geopark
MORE THAN 2 EYES ($1000) Also called fan shells or comb shells, these mollusks can have up to 200 eyes
HISTORY’S MYSTERIES ($800) It’s said when this leader died in 1227, those who carried his body to a hidden tomb were killed, & later those killers were also killed
18TH CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ($1200) The 1740s brought the first electrical capacitor, this “jar” named for a Dutch city
($2000) Following his experiments with frogs, he published an essay “On the Effect of Electricity on Muscular Motion”
PRISONS ($400) ADX Florence, the only federal supermax, is called the Alcatraz of these mountains that inmates don’t get to see much of
($800) Merle Haggard & Charles Manson both did time in this prison that’s about 15 miles north of San Francisco
($1200) Dubious Russian charges of espionage have put Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for this newspaper, in Lefortovo Prison
MORE THAN 2 I’S ($2000) A quartet of I’s is present & accounted for in this word for a strict drill sergeant or school principal
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
SHAKESPEARE BEFORE & AFTER ($1600) A Puck-ish play goes top 10 in 1976 singing, “I believe you can get me through the night”
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: MUSIC, MUSIC EVERYWHERE
($200) Trumpet players use this device to alter tonal quality in addition to lowering the volume, but do they “hit” it as they do?
($400) In songs, the name of this dance follows “Beer Barrel”(fun!), “Too Fat” (uhh…) & “Strip” (Hey now!)
($600) Falsetto is used by male singers to reach this vocal register of Jessye Norman & Joan Sutherland
($800) 1940s originators of this first kind of modern jazz included Dizzy Gillespie & Thelonious Monk
($1000) The musical term performed here is called diminuendo or this, the negative of another term
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I didn’t get FJ right, but then again, I never thought much about the Cabbage Patch Kids. I mean, what good were they? Well, those dolls sure didn’t appeal to me. Actually, the vintage pull string Chatty Cathy dolls would have been a far better value at the time (after the voice boxes were restored).
We had a talking Pee Wee Herman doll at one point. “I know you are but what am I” 🤣🤣🤣
I still have a Teddy Ruxpin doll and the cassettes that he came with.
That’s cool, Rhonda. Teddy Ruxpin was a bestseller a couple of years after the Cabbage Patch Kids. Ours went to the 🧸 Sematary many moons ago
That’s great fellas.
Everyone’s comments about Isabella are correct. She dominated the 2 music categories in the beginning, but then barely rung in afterwards.
Ken reverse-jinxed Allison in the introduction stating that she had not yet answered a FJ clue correctly.
I loved the Fresh Prince of Bel Air license plate clue. And then Ken cleverly chimed in that it also had dice in the mirror.
I thought Isabella was going to roll over the others like a bulldozer, but, her quizzical miss on the DD was like a pin into her balloon, deflating it right to nothing. She lost all her mojo there. And I say quizzical, because, if she knew Andorra, then Basque should have been hand and glove.
I got FJ. Iirc, Xavier Roberts.
Not a great game, and many stumpers. The mountainous prison was kind of obvious from the photo. The beer barrel dance is pretty well-known, or maybe just to oldsters. Guessed right on the Russian prisoner’s newspaper.
FJ was a cinch, or at least if you were alive at the time. I’ve lived through so many fads, from hula hoops to Pokemon cards. I should compile a list of all the ones I remember.
How about the Garbage Pail Kids cards, Howard? I think I’ve still got a couple of them.
I wondered if Weird Al saw that Beer Barrel, Too Fat TS.
I have 5 kids now in their 30s and 40s. Been through all the fads. There might be some Garbage Pail kids cards around here somewhere. Saw several Pokemon cards the other day in the house. Pogs, Beanie Babies, baseball cards, Tamagotchis, I’ve experienced ’em all. Older ones were yo-yos, frisbees, water guns, mood rings, chia pets, pet rocks. I had an almost complete set of Beatles cards and wish they’d survived. Frankie Yankovic is spinning in his grave tonight.
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!
I had my boy in the 70s, my daughters in the 80s and 90s. So yeah, all the ones you mentioned plus GI Joes, Star Wars, He-Man, Transformers, X-Men … Strawberry Shortcake, the Smurfs, Rainbow Brite and on and on. When Nikki (90s) was a polliwog, I took her to a lot of garage sales. We collected a ton of “little men.” I’d get the biggest kick out of hearing her say “Schwarzenegger” when I showed him to her.
Tough break for Isabella on that daily double in the first round. She was having a strong first round and would have broken the record for the highest end of first round score had she gotten it right. It was the correct choice though.