Final Jeopardy: Colleges (6-3-24)
Here are some more clues from the 6/3/2024 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.
BODIES OF WATER ($1200) The French call it Pas de Calais; the English call it this
($1600) An active volcano lies within this country’s Taal Lake, which itself occupies a caldera
CELEBRITY LIFESTYLE & BEAUTY BRANDS ($000) Kim Kardashian started this brand to create shapewear to match different skin tones
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: CLASSIC SONG NUMBERS
($200) A Beatles song was born when Paul McCartney’s driver said he’d been very busy working this calendrical impossibility
($400) Weird Al wanted to parody this Prince song by turning the year into an infomercial sales price as in “For Only”
($600) In a 1978 No. 1 hit, the Commodores sang “You’re once… twice…” this title
($800) The Proclaimers proclaimed quite Scottishly their intention to walk this many miles; guess 804.672 km didn’t scan
($1000) Regarding this Meatloaf song, it’s a yes on wanting you & needing you, but loving you… oo, sorry! Now don’t be sad, cause…
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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The only 2 of the 7 Sisters that came to mind were Vassar and Bryn Mawr, so, I confidently went with Bryn Mawr. “Rarely in error, and NEVER in doubt”!
That last DD is a different story. I said “The Persian Gulf”, so, I was wrong anyhow!
Concur with Howard (natch) – the first round was fire!
It was refreshing for the “Forrest Bounce” being absent today!
That first round was electric! Carol pretty much shot the moon on that very knowable DD, then collapsed on another clue or two and was done. For a while I thought that this being a Monday show, the coordinators might have pulled the strongest competitors from the week’s contestant pool.
I said Vassar for FJ, knowing that probably was wrong. Princeton was a lame guess; never to my knowledge one of the 7 Sisters, Smith was a real stretch because it certainly wasn’t located in a town of the same name.
Just by way of general knowledge, there are a lot of places named Smith and Smith Township. There’s even a Smith crater on the moon!
I see that the Beatles’ hit ‘Eight Days A Week’ came up again in reference to Paul McCartney’s reputed conversation with a taxi driver. Actually, ‘Eight Days A Week’ surfaced in FJ a couple of years ago which was described as a “work song”. In fact, it was purely a love song. Predictably, a big stink among Jeopardy fans soon followed after that snafu. Anyways, I took a wild guess with Yale for today’s FJ, but it didn’t pan out. Wow, that FJ was a real bummer!
The “work” reference supposedly stems from Paul’s chauffeur telling him “I’ve been working hard, working eight days a week.” From there it morphed into a love song. So yes, not a work song at all, but that was its inspiration.
Yes, I know.
If only Matthew thought of Bryn Mawr a few seconds earlier, he would have got it and would have been the only player in FJ! correct, but he ran out of time to put an R at the end making it a triple stumper.
That’s why today’s final was a tough one.