Final Jeopardy: American History (6-8-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from then 6/8/2022 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.
PUT IT ON WHAT? ($800) A Kurt Adler star or angel finial
($800) Decca F.11940, released 1964
ALLITERATIVE SPORTS NO-NO’S ($200) It’s when a pitcher intentionally hits you with the pitch
CANYON ($600) Steinbeck could appreciate this nearly 10,000′-deep submarine canyon off the Pacific Coast, with tributaries in the same-named bay
($1000) The ancestral Puebloans once lived in this canyon that despite the spelling, rhymes with “bay”, not with “belly”
FICTIONAL PLACES ($1600) Norton Juster wrote up Dictionopolis & ran the numbers on Digitopolis, rival cities in this children’s classic
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Sneak Peek clues — 5-LETTERS, ENDS IN “O”
($400) Culturally, off limits
($800) It’s orbited by Charon
($1200) “Top Chef” channel
($1600) Cannon fire volley
($2000) Slow & dignified, musically
ANSWERS: show
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Eric sounded a lot more confident today. Tessa was her own worst enemy. The two DD really helped Eric. He was on the way, but not too far, when he hit them. Due to his runaway, that made the numbers look good for this game.
A slam dunk FJ.
Of course I had to look up Decca F.11940, which was the Zombies’ 1964 hit “She’s Not There”. I can’t say Vanilla Fudge did a cover in 1967 because it’s so different, I have to say Vanilla Fudge’s version rocked!
Santana did a marvelous cover of the song on their Moonflower album. Give it a listen on Youtube sometime. Decca was the label that turned down the Beatles after their audition on 1-1-1962. Someone on FB tonight also posted the title of that song in the clue. Was not familiar with the Fudge version.
Cinch FJ after a series of toughies.
My two oldest went to a Catholic school 35+ years ago named after the Portuguese town where the Virgin was seen, which is the only way I knew that answer.
Eric is very daring in his DD wagers, especially compared to Ryan, but that could turn against him at some point.
To win big, you gotta wager big. Just the way it is.
Thanks, Howard, I enjoyed that Santana version.
I was raised Catholic and loved to read the lives of the Saints when I was as young as 8, so yeah, I knew that one about the Portuguese children. There was a 1950s movie about it with Gilbert Roland and Frank Silvera (he was great as Linda Cristal’s daddy on High Chapparal).
Eric dominated this game today! Way to go! Every bit of American History helped me with this clue, especially playing Liberty’s Kids