Final Jeopardy: 1960s America (6-14-24)
Here are some more clues from the 6/14/2024 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.
1824 ($400) 18-year-old Henriette Sontag was the soprano as this man’s final symphony premiered in Vienna
($1000) Florida’s capital was moved to Tallahassee, midway between these two cities that had been alternating in the role ANSWER: show
AROUND SCOTLAND ($2000) A major industrial burgh in the east, Dundee is the principal city of this former county that shares its name with a cattle breed
NO. 1 ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100 ($2000) 2022: “First Class” with the Fergie sample
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES ($2000) A member of the Communist power structure in Russia, it’s come to mean the loyal subordinate of a political leader
ANOTHER DAY IN PARASITES ($1600) You give me fever, the hard type of this parasite— Texas cattle fever, hemorrhagic fever, Q fever…
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: RHYMING PHRASES
($200) A trip on a party boat with alcohol aplenty
($400) There’s a male first name in this phrase meaning all tied up or 50-50
($600) Bangers & Mash or Fish & Chips, maybe alongside a pint of ale
($800) The main roads & side roads of a place, collectively
($1000) There are 2 negatives in this 4-word phrase meaning something can be done without difficulty
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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The poet who was declared insane was a propagandist for Mussolini and the fascist movement having made radio broadcasts from Italy to the world. He was diagnosed as insane but that was so he could remain in an asylum rather than go to prison in the United States.
He was captured by the allies after WWII and was tried but found to be mentally incompetent by a psychiatrist. But he got favored treatment because of his position as a great poet.
I was 2/3 on DD and, missed FJ with no answer. This was a good game. As usual, I got about half of the TS.
What a terrific contest. Tough but fair Final. Once again, Adriana wrote down her answer quickly, so I knew she had it. Friday shows can be tough on a multi-day champ because it’s usually the 5th taping of the day.
Adriana’s wager was to lock out Susan in case both got FJ correct. Kaitlin’s was perplexing to me ($410). She may have (wrongly) thought that Adriana would wager $401, so she bet small. But Kaitlin would have lost even if she hit FJ, as it played out. She was more or less obligated to bet large.
I knew right away who died on Halloween 1926. The cattle breed wasn’t too difficult to pin down. The Russian subordinate came to me quickly thanks to a Poli Sci class I took in 1970. (Just don’t ask what I ate for lunch today.)
I was surprised that none of the contestants came up with the man who died on October 31, 1926. I mean, there were other clues as well so who else could it have possibly been?
The only clues about that person were he died on Halloween and had a wife named Bess who tried to contact him by seance after he died. Ironically, although Bess and her husband conducted seances early in their careers to make money, he disavowed the practice and worked at exposing fakes. I can’t imagine that Bess genuinely believed she could contact him after death.
Kaitlin obviously focused on the wife’s name to come up with Truman.
It was a good game, and not a runaway. Anyways, I came up with “Affirmative…………”, for FJ, but it was obviously incomplete.
For the first time in her entire run, Adriana is not in the lead heading into Final. But she survives a scare after her challengers drew a complete blank. She is now in 14th place in all-time winnings and has now tied with Matt Jackson and Ray Lalonde at 13 wins. Adriana has swept back-to-back weeks.