Final Jeopardy: Female Authors (6-23-23)
Here are some more clues from the 6/23/2023 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.
ANIMAL CHANGE A LETTER ($400) A “gruff” quadruped of fable switches a letter, becoming an insect pest
WHO REIGNED IN ENGLAND WHEN… ($600) The shooting started in the Boer War
I LEARNED IT ON SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK ($800) This begins–& sadly, I can’t sing it–“We the people…in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice”
KIDS OF THE ’70S, REJOICE! ($1000) Panda-panda! In 1972 to the delight of U.S. kids, this panda & her mate Hsing-Hsing arrived at the Smithsonian National Zoo
QUI”ZZ”ICAL ($2000) Mentioned in the book of Daniel as the son of Nebuchadnezzar, this ruler was killed during the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C.
A CHEMISTRY TEST ($2000) On this scale that measures resistance of a smooth surface to scratching, talc is at the bottom at
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER GEOGRAPHY ($1200) Driving I-40 from Winslow to Kingman, you might want to stop in this city & maybe take in the Museum of Northern Arizona
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Sneak Peek clues — BOOKS & AUTHORS
($200) In this novel, Holden Caulfield observes, “All morons hate it when you call them a moron”
($400) A mouse named Mr. Jingles does some time in prison in this Stephen King book
($600) In books by Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson’s first name is short for this one from mythology
($800) Richard Parker is actually a 450-pound Bengal tiger in this novel by Yann Martel
($1000) In “Night”, his harrowing account of the Holocaust, he wrote, I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Thank you so much for posting these synopses. It’s almost like watching the show, which is great b/c I can’t find yesterday’s show on youtube now.
You’re welcome, dee. Don’t forget that you can see the final round on Jeopardy!’s YouTube channel for any game you happen to miss. Here’s a link to the video for this game.
Hooray for Donna the librarian. She made significant headway in the Broadway category, and nailed the final. Ben was overdue for a loss.
I was briefly stumped by FJ until I recalled a woman author from that era who wrote about the West, then confirmed it by knowing the title character referred to in the clue.
Very good challengers tonight. They left a few on the table I thought one of them might get. The monarchs when Alaska was admitted and during the Boer War; Portuguese-speaking African nation; We the People document; panda’s name; resistance scale; and Arizona museum city.
Well, it happened again – saying a response which was already given (which we know isn’t USUALLY the right -: or, more accurately, accepted, answer). But, it challenges logic – Queen when Alaska became a state? C’mon, man!
I got FJ wrong. I’m trying to think of what was my response, but, regardless, I was wrong!
I think Ben misunderstood that Alaska clue as in when the USA acquired Alaska. idk but maybe he thought Victoria was the wrong answer in the previous clue?
Congrats to Donna. She didn’t get any Daily Doubles but still won with the week’s highest payday.
Yes, Donna managed to deliver the correct response in FJ, and perhaps being a librarian gave her an edge.
Ron didn’t bet everything on the first daily double. Anyway, Ben Goldstein is leaving us with 5 wins and a shade under 50,000. The lowest 5 day total amount but a win is a win and that’s enough for Ben to make it to the TOC.