Final Jeopardy: World of Water (6-21-23)
Here are some more clues from the 6/21/2023 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.
COLLECT ‘EM ALL! ($400) Seen as folk art, these items are prized by collectors (image)
OFFICIAL NICKNAMES ($600) Powerhouse Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch trademarked this as his nickname
($1000) Longtime president Nazarbayev decided this vast Central Asian country would be the “Land of the Great Steppe”
NEVADA ($200) On March 19, 1931 state legislators legalized gambling & shortened the residency time required for one of these
HISTORY IS ELEMENTAL ($2000) Otto von Bismarck’s manner of rule led to him getting this nickname that includes an element & a title
DISCOVERY & INVENTION ($400) In the 1950s Grace Hopper & her team created FLOW-MATIC, the first one of these to follow English commands
($1600) Written in Hebrew, the first of these was discovered east of Jerusalem by a shepherd boy in 1947; more would turn up in Masada
($2000) Hiram Bingham was searching for Vilcabamba in 1911 when a local, Melchor Arteaga, led him to this “lost city”
SHOE GAZING ($2000) This Spanish shoe designer famous for his stilettos made shoes for Sofia Coppola’s film “Marie Antoinette”
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Sneak Peek clues — -OLOGIES
($200) Physical & cultural are branches of this “study of humans”
($400) Odontology deals with the structure & development of these
($600) They’re the largest of the creatures that are studied in cetology
($800) Bacteria & protozoa are of special interest in this field, literally the scientific study of small living things
($1000) The history of words & the study of them, its own goes back to Greek for “true meanings”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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So, what kind of professor is Lee? I mean, Pacific and Atlantic? Really? I got Final easily, at least.
The Asian Steppe nation, my voice was rising with each answer.
Ok, anyone who reads what I write (I think that’s about 1.5 of y’all) knows I’m not a fan of Mayim, but, that cetology clue, that one, Alex, definitely, would have said, “More specific”, she just gave away. It asked for the largest. Whale is not enough.
Touché, Jason — Ken would have said “close enough” 🤣🤣🤣
Geography can be tough for me, but Indian Ocean and Tasman sea were all I could come up with, even though Tasmania was in the clue.
Nabeela was right there in DJ but imploded near the end, and Ben sealed the deal.
There were a few I thought someone might know: George Shelby/abolition book; the folk art waterfowl; residency time in Nevada; Hiram Bingham; and the Spanish shoe designer. And of course the study of words, which isn’t identified as a stumper in the recap, and the Hebrew documents. The book about the Irish orphan/spy we read in 8th grade nearly 60 years ago, but I didn’t remember anything about it.
Back in the 50s and 60s, if a woman wanted a quickie divorce, she’d move to Reno and establish residency for 6 or so weeks. Mary Rockefeller did that when she divorced governor Nelson. He was quite the randy politician.
@Howard, the study of words TS is checked off (*) in the Sneak Peek answers on Page 2.
I never read the Kipling book with the Irish orphan, but I saw the 1950 movie with Dean Stockwell in the title role and Errol Flynn as Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard.
I don’t think literature is a strong category for Ben. If he makes the ToC, he’ll need to study up on that or he’ll get creamed. Suresh, too. Remember his $5.00 DD bet in a Novel category in his 5th game?
OK, now I see it. Neglected to click on the answers. It’s not a super-common word, but certainly 1 of 3 at least should have known it. A good vocabulary is valuable in so many ways. It was drummed into us as early as grade school. Our class subscribed to Reader’s Digest, and we always did the multiple choice Word Power quiz.
I also credit Word Power for my vocabulary as well as my mother. My grandparents had a ton of RDs .
VJ, I’m rather curious about the FJ answer today. When I look at the Bass Strait on your link, (to me) it appears obvious it touches the Indian Ocean and the Tasman Sea. The question (again, to me) is not phrased to favor the Pacific Ocean. As two of the contestants got it right, I wonder what I’m missing? I checked other maps and quite often the Tasman Sea is shown in the same place as the Pacific Ocean, usually one name on top of the other.. Thanks for agreeing with me that either Tasman Sea or Pacific Ocean could be correct.
Sam, the Tasman Sea is one of many seas that are considered divisions of the Pacific Ocean. So if the Bass Strait waters mingle with the Tasman Sea, I don’t think it’s wrong to say either one for this clue. After all, the Tasman Sea is larger than the Bass Strait.
Funny– if they only wanted oceans, they could have specified that and got the same responses.
That’s what I thought. The phrasing seemed to indicate the Tasman Sea rather than Pacific Ocean but I’m easily confused these days. Thanks again for all you do. This site ROCKS!
Thanks to a fourth win by Ben Goldstein, he is now eligible for the Tournament of Champions. Now we have two Bens in the same tournament. I wonder what will happen if two Bens play on the same match. We never had two players with the same name compete against each other.
Yes, there have been. The person at the right most podium some time late in Alex’s time went by “Rock”, because his name was the same as the champ. IIRC, Rock was bald. Alex made mention that both players had the same name, so, the challenger used his nickname.