Final Jeopardy: Brands (6-15-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from then 6/x/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.
COACH & HORSES ($1000) Don Nelson coached Dirk Nowitzki & the rest of this NBA team when its uniform logo went horsey in 2001
ORPHANS IN BOOKS ($2000) In this John Irving novel, the eccentric Dr. Wilbur Larch runs an orphanage
STATE FLORA ($400) The sabal this, Florida’s state tree, has a heart that tastes like cabbage
($1200) California made the lace type of this fungus-alga partnership its official state one
($2000) Known for living a long time, one of Nevada’s two state trees is this type of pine named for the feature seen here (image)
TV MONSTERS ($400) Folks guard against these mindless monsters on “Black Summer”
GETTING “W-R-M” ($400) A heavy dairy product beaten until it’s stiff
($1600) It’s another name for tungsten
($2000) The shape of an electromagnetic emission or of a gnarly breaker
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — STICKS & STONES
($200) In 1973 North Carolina went green in naming this as the official state precious stone
($400) Teddy Roosevelt cited what he described as a West African proverb: do this “& carry a big stick; you will go far”
($600) Hickory is the traditional material for making these sporting sticks with a net at one end
($800) The stone weighs between 38 & 44 pounds in this sport
($1000) In 1950 this 336-pound object was stolen by Scottish nationalists on Christmas, but it was recovered a few months later
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That’s what I meant about Gregory. He was at the front, then to the very back. When I said “challenging”, I didn’t mean literal “not in first place”. I meant he looked like he might win the game. Sorry if I was less than clear!
Thanks, Jason
Yikes, what an uneven game. Gregory swayed back and forth the entire game, which was indicative of his wildly-fluctuating score. He went for the kill on one DD and paid a dear price.
Stumpers were pretty tough. I knew only the name for tungsten; the horsey NBA team; and the Irving novel.
FJ was a toughie, but I came up with it quickly enough, having remembered many sports stars being honored with their faces on the Wheaties box over the past 60+ years.
@Howard, I used to find that swaying back and forth so distracting until a May 2015 game. The champ continued to sway from side to side in his 6th (and final) game while the challenger who won was bobbing up and down. It was so funny! I brought it up in the comments.
I was telling my daughter about it when we were watching today’s game and she couldn’t help laughing at the mental picture she got.
I didn’t even notice. The only thing about Gregory that struck me was his approach to the median ($0). He was challenging for the lead!
Overall, not a very competitive game. But, a win’s a win!
Jason, idk what you mean by “challenging for the lead”?? Gregory got all the DDs and went from 3rd place when he got the first one, to 2nd place on the 2nd to a $2,800 lead when he got the third!
After losing 5K on that last DD, he managed to go from $4,200 to $1,000 at the end of the round partly from buzzing in on clues he didn’t even have a guess on.
I remember Wheaties being the correct response on 4/5/16 that nobody got right, and Jeff Crosby won with $8,400, by a margin of $200, thanks to an excellent $3,600 wager.
Yes, at least they let them know they were looking for a cereal brand in that game!
I came up with Levis for FJ, but the FJ was a tough one to be sure. Actually, I’ve only been eating Wheaties regularly for the last few years , and only one of those aforementioned names rang a bell with me. This FJ seemed to go in streaks as yesterday’s FJ was a no brainer, and yet this one was a real puzzler. Actually, I wonder how long today’s champion had been eating Wheaties as she obviously came up with the correct response.
Wow that FJ question was very misleading, considering that Strong and Campanella were both paralyzed, I thought it had to be relevant. There are so many other athletes they could have used to not lead a knowledgeable sports fan down that path.
Good job by Megan!
Congrats on a well played game Megan