Final Jeopardy: Familiar Phrases (6-29-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question in the category “Familiar Phrases” was:

Originally a folk term for a chronic rash, this phrase got a new meaning as a title for a 1952 stage comedy & later a movie

Today’s players: 2x champ Anneke Garcia, from Salt Lake City, UT; Charlie Jensen, from Los Angeles, CA; and Suzy Langevin, from Framingham, MA.

This is a rerun from 1/14/2019. The full recap is over here

Here is a link to the weekly recap with all the FJ! clues from that week

Here are some more clues from other Anneke Garcia games:

ON THE RADIO ($800) SiriusXM’s radio classics channel airs such favorites as “Hopalong Cassidy” & “Fibber McGee &” her

SCHOOL WITHIN A SCHOOL ($1600) The Pritzker School of Medicine

GOING “DUTCH” ($600) In 1935 this man thought hey, let’s kill Thomas Dewey; fearing backlash, crime bosses added bullets to his restaurant orde

30 SOMETHING ($1200) Most people are born with 33 of these bones, but reach maturity with fewer because some of them fuse

“ITS” FINAL ($400) Axillae is a more elegant word for these areas below the shoulder

“WEST” WORLD ($800) If you are lost in Yonkers, you have found yourself in this upscale N.Y. county

WOMEN WRITERS ($1600) This Ayn Rand book ends with the line “Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark”

ABBREVIATED REALITY SHOWS ($1000) Robert Kulp & Mike Whiteside restore, repurpose or resell objects rescued from job sites: “SD”

UNLIKELY POP CULTURE PAIRINGS ($1600) Pity the fool who doesn’t know Mr. T met Boy George in a 1986 episode of this show

CIVIL WAR POETRY ($1600) This poet famous for “The Wreck of the Hesperus” also depicted the 1862 sinking of the Cumberland