Final Jeopardy: Authors’ Wives (6-20-24)
Here are some more clues from the 6/20/2024 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.
NAMED BY LIT LOVERS ($800) A species of fish with a long snout is named for this character with a big ol’ nose from an 1897 play
LET’S RUN THE NUMBERS ($1000) As the word for this number sounds like it means “certainly death”, Cantonese speakers have a collective case of tetrakaidekaphobia
SIR DUKE ($000) In 1869, a royal with this title, later bestowed on Prince Philip, visited Hawaii; that’s how Duke Kahanamoku got his name
BROADWAY’S OPENING NIGHT CASTS ($1200) These two actresses were wickedly good when their show opened in October of 2003
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NAMED BY LIT LOVERS ($600) Found in the name of a bewitching Disney show with Selena Gomez, this street or “Place” in NYC was named for a Walter Scott novel – they were only looking for “Waverly” but Jonquil said “Witches of Waverly Place” when the title is actually “Wizards of Waverly Place”
SIR DUKE ($00) In 2021, after 5 decades, the Duke of Kent stepped down as a presenter of the trophies for this sporting tournament – Ken didn’t catch Bob’s “WimbleTon” response, but the judges did. It’s happened before:
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($200) Sugars or starches– keep ’em low in a keto diet
($400) It’s a quick way to say you want, say, the 2021 Caymus Vineyards with its notes of black cherry
($600) Short for your longtime pal, it first appeared pre-WWII; it’s also D. name of a clown in an “In Living Color” sketch
($800) In the streets it’s your rival; Maxo Kream rhymes the word with “drop”
($1000) livestrong.com notes it’s better to relax your chest & then twitch the muscle under your collarbone to make these fellas bounce
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Wow – the first half of the first round (until the first break) was just a mess. I was happy that it “tightened up”.
I def heard the “Ton”.
Final had a few quizzical wagers. First was Bob’s. I don’t know what his aim was, but, it wouldn’t have covered anything. The second was Drew’s. His 6k wager, not 6001, would have led to a tie, had Jonquil 1. wagered everything and 2. gotten it correct.
Overall, so far, I’m not really impressed with Drew.
Good job by both challengers to turn an apparent runaway into a competitive contest. My FJ guess was Zelda F. Close call for Bob on Final, and I really didn’t hear him say “Wimbleton.” Jonquil gave it a good shot on the Stevie Wonder/Miracles DD, but probably didn’t know the actual tune. The Miracles were the first concert I attended as a college freshman.
I was dumbstruck when no one knew the Jacques who named Canada. Same for the big-nosed character.
Similar tale to “Wimbleton”: when I was on in 1987, the champ answered “parfumerie” in the 9-letter Words category. Alex accepted it, and the game progressed. It was reversed after the first break, but I never got a chance to ring in. Still fluent in French after many years, I’d have said “parfumier,” but that probably wouldn’t have flown either. The word they sought was “perfumery,” and the clue was something about a French shop, and not the maker of the product.
That was a tough final as we got a triple stumper.