Final Jeopardy: Notable American Women (6-28-24)
Here are some more clues from the 6/28/2024 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.
ALLITERATION ($800) The Tetra brand makes this that will keep your cichlids happy & full of vitamins
($1000) Part of the Interior Department, they provide law enforcement on federal areas such as the National Mall
COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS ($1000) This college’s The Heights not only circulates on campus but also reaches Chestnut Hill, Allston-Brighton & Newton
“B” WEAR ($800) A British overseas territory has explained that the “real” type of these bottoms are worn 3 inches above the knee
($1000) Also called a dolman, this type of sleeve style sounds like a perfect choice for Bruce Wayne
THE DOGS ($800) This breed named for a city in Belgium is trained by Navy SEALs to skydive, wear body armor & night-vision goggles
STUFF ABOUT STATES ($800) As readers know, this county is “the covered bridge capital of Iowa”–start your tour at the welcome center in Winterset
AFI’S GREATEST VILLAINS ($800) No. 4: Evil crone who hates dogs but loves colorful footwear
($1600) No. 41: The only real-life actress on the list, she was played by Faye Dunaway in a 1981 biopic
($2000) No. 30: He was a taxi driver
TEEN-LETTER WORDS ($2000) 15 letters: It’s the strong, often greedy, desire to get & own things
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($200) In “The Sign of the Four”, Holmes & Watson chase 2 killers down this river, from the tower to the Plumstead Marshes
($400) “Spade paid his fare and left the taxicab”; this city’s “night-fog, thin, clammy and penetrant blurred the street”
($600) The Pequod goes from Nantucket far south around this cape, then through the Indian Ocean to the South Pacific & a big showdown
($800) 2024 is the 50th anniversary of this book about bike engines & much more that follows a trip from Minneapolis to the West Coast
($1000) In Shakespeare Antony says he’ll take his ships “from the head of” this promontory & “beat the approaching Caesar”; he doesn’t
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Congratulations Drew on winning 7 games. Not many people can say they accomplished winning that many games on Jeopardy. This young man just came off of Survivor before appearing on Jeopardy. All of this while in graduate school at Oxford must have taken a lot out of him. From my experience with graduate students they think they can multitask but life has a way of proving otherwise. What convinced me Drew was exhausted was the incorrect Michigan State response for the Daily Trojan given that he’s from Michigan. I knew he knew better. One thing about college students, especially grad students, they know their colleges because they have spent so much time researching different ones to attend. Having said this, my conclusion is that Drew was exhausted. When people who have accomplished their own careers in life criticize young people who are working hard at trying to establish their very first career I often wonder if they forgot what it was like when they were young and tried different things in order to become successful. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Well said. When Drew said Michigan State, I thought he had temporary brain freeze and was thinking Spartan instead of Trojan. I gave him a pass on that one. It will all depend on the opponents and the categories, but I don’t see him doing well in the ToC vs strong players.
Amen, brother! My congratulations to Drew also.
Everybody said everything. What a mess! I was a little warmed in my heart when Cat got Lili’uokalani correct.
Yeah, Drew’s FJ wager was, well, I don’t know.
I was 1/3 on DD, and got FJ correct.
What an awful, ugly game. Drew appeared punch-drunk from the get-go. Maybe because it might have been the fifth taping of the day? He got himself squared away in DJ and was headed for a lock game till blowing the DDs, neither of which was easy. I’m glad Cat stayed within reach. Andrew was mired in quicksand the whole game.
Drew over-wagered in FJ, IMO. $2001 would have been sufficient. Maybe he loved the category. Of course it was Helen Keller, although I gave Annie Sullivan a brief nod.
Too many stumpers/wrong answers. Chestnut Hill/Newton were decent hints at the college paper. At least Cat knew my college paper after Drew said Cornell. I wrote a few articles for that publication. Utterly shocked no one knew the Iowa bridge county. Faye Dunaway character and taxi driver were pretty gettable. Sam Spade’s foggy city was obvious. “The morning fog may fill the air; I don’t care.” (Tony Bennett)
I thought the DD in the first round was weird and thought it was lucky that Drew could only bet a grand.
I thought the DDs in the last round were easy. By then, Drew should have realized he needed to bet low, considering all the stumpers. “Sayings” should have pointed him to the Ancient Name. When he missed the State Stuff one, I could only think “merde!”
I did poorly in the game, but got the FJ as it was too obvious. Perhaps it was me, but it sure seemed that Drew had deliberately thrown the match.
An unimpressive main game. All 3 DDs were missed resulted our tenth skunking. The DDs were not kind to Drew.
Drew, all I have to say is “Darn Those Daily Doubles!”. Great run, though. You went from finishing 6th place on “Survivor” last year, to toppling 15-Day Champion: Adriana Harmeyer, to being our most recent tiebreaker winner, to being a definite TOC Player, to being a Lucky 7-Day Champion. With 7 wins and about $130,000, we’ll see you in the Tournament of Champions.
Drew’s final score is 1,200. It was a rough game in the beginning with everyone in the red. Drew went 0-3 in the daily doubles. Had he got the first daily double of the game right, he would have had exactly twice Cat’s score heading into Final possibly a potential tiebreaker that happened last Friday. Still congrats to Drew on a wonderful run.
What I meant to say is Drew’s final score is 1,201 because he wagered to stay above Andrew and not overbet.
Yeah, Kevin, I guess I pasted the wrong amount from somewhere. I knew Drew bet to have $1.00 more than Andrew because I was pissed about it. Drew won so much money, he could have let Andrew have that extra grand. Just my opinion.