Final Jeopardy: 20th-Century Events (6-26-23)
Here are some more clues from the 6/26/2023 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.
7-LETTER WORDS ($400) It’s a payment given by a feudal vassal to a lord, or a type of band such as Oasish
LOVELY RITA ($1000) This lovely Rita honored her heritage by wearing an Albanian folk costume in the video for her 2021 EP “Bang”
NAMES OF THE 1990s ($2000) Bill Romanowski went from the 49ers to the Eagles & Broncos; this Ill. politician went from power in the U.S. House to prison
SCIENTISTS ($400) In the home seen here, now a museum in Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner came up with a vaccine for this disease
($1200) Mais oui & merci, this man seen here sheepishly came up with an anthrax vaccine in 1881 (image)
($1600) In 2023 Bob Metcalfe won the Turing Award for inventing this computer networking technology in the 1970s
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Sneak Peek clues — FIRST LADIES’ RHYME TIME
($200) Mrs. Obama’s chimes
($400) Mrs. Kennedy’s military slacks
($600) Mrs. Madison’s streetcars
($800) The second Mrs. Bush’s soft felt hats with creased crowns
($1000) Mrs. Truman’s locks of hair
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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For some arcane reason, I got FJ because of the 811 foot thing.
Yeah, goofy wagers, but, I’m happy for better contestants. Donna was impressive making up the difference and increasing her lead by getting so many clues correct. For a while I thought Caroline was going to be a challenge.
I have to sheepishly admit that I got the Brahe clue wrong – that is so, because, in college, I did a report on Brahe for an astronomy class I took! I don’t know why I said Copernicus, but Kepler didn’t even come to mind. All I’m going to tell you is that brain surgery really isn’t that difficult (just precise), but rocket science certainly is! As a guy I know said, “Why would you do that to those numbers? They never did anything to you!”
Oh, the humanity! On that last DD, Donna could have bet around $4K to ensure a lock victory, and even if wrong, still would have had the lead. And Ryan’s $10222 FJ wager has me scratching my head. If he’d bet it all, he’d have won because Donna’s wager was at least $401 too low. Mind-boggling. Ryan was a good player, but his wager was unusual.
I’m still laughing over Donna’s guess of “shot put” for the woman athlete’s 237-foot throw, and her guess of “polio” for the Jenner vaccine was also poor. And what did “Dua Lipa” have to do with the “Rita”category?
I believe it was the “War of the Words” category that got the librarian back into the game in Round 2.
Good group tonight, though, and I’m impressed that 2 got the Final (I sure didn’t). I thought one of them MIGHT know the proper name of the weather instrument; the feudal vassal payment; the Albanian Rita; the Illinois politician; the anthrax vaccine; the Jenner vaccine;
The Daily Doubles have been hidden until the very last clue of each round in today’s game. It’s the first time that the Daily Doubles were played on the last clue in both rounds.
yeah, that was very unusual — the last one in the first round, then first and last in the second round