Final Jeopardy: Famous Ships (7-13-23)
Here are some more clues from the 7/13/2023 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.
LIVE CAMS ($200) Through a conservation center in New York, you can observe critically endangered red & Mexican gray ones of these
EAT IT! WEAR IT! OR SIT ON IT! ($200) With nearly 30-inch legs, IKEA’s Yngvar is this type of seat that’s perfect for throwing back some cold ones
($800) To wear, it’s a comfy piece of around-the-house footwear; to sit on, it’s a short-legged, armless chair
FLIGHTSEEING ACROSS AMERICA ($2000) Seen here is a shot of this crater in Honolulu that’s home to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
MEDICINE ($2000) The norovirus is a common cause of this 15-letter inflammation of the stomach lining & intestines
RELIGIOUS OBJECTS & SYMBOLS ($800) The Christmas nativity scene shown here also goes by this French name
ESPAN-O ($1200) In the live action movie “Dora & the Lost City of Gold”, Dora asks the audience, “Can you say” this tasty word?
($2000) This type of tequila, Spanish for “rested”, takes a siesta in its barrel for several months, developing a golden hue
MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER ($1200) Michael Cera fights his girlfriend’s exes as Robin Williams fights to get out of his mother’s shadow
($2000) Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach fight for gold while Marlon Brando gives Yanks a bad name overseas
MOVIE BEFORE & AFTER ANSWERS show
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Sneak Peek clues — FROM THE HEADLINES
($200) The Washington Post, November 10, 1989:: “East Germany Opens” this “and Borders”
($400) The Tampa Tribune, May 24, 1934: this pair “Die with Hands Clutching Guns”
($600) The Oregonian, May 19, 1980: “Eruption Decapitates” this peak
($800) This U.S. city’s Free Press November 7, 1973: “Young Elected City’s First Black Mayor”
($1000) The San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 1973: this man from Maryland “Resigns”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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“Laid Down” “Launched” “Commissioned” Navy has particular terms for ships (As it should). Laid Down usually means the keel (backbone of almost any ship) has been started. Launched means sliding down the slip into the water for further construction; Commissioned is when the Navy wastes a full bottle of Sailor strength booze, by breaking it over the bow of the ship allowing the crew to board her and bring the ship to life.
Thanks for that info, Dave
FJ came to me fairly quickly once I realized what happened in 1898. The Pulitzer and Hearst newspapers fanned the flames with their yellow journalism to help provoke war with Spain.
Good group tonight, a competitive game, and a smart wager by the champ.
I visited the crater in Honolulu in 2015. Was hoping someone would get the French word for nativity scene, but that falls into the “either you know it or you don’t” category. I knew Kathy would get dinged on that Eastwood/Brando movie question. I remember the book that became the Brando film. Big best-seller at the time.
I was at Shea Stadium in October 1973 watching the Mets and Reds in a playoff game, when the scoreboard announced that Agnew had resigned. Huge cheer from the large crowd. Just another grifter who got into politics for the money. I don’t know who wrote his speeches, but he used phrases such as “nattering nabobs of negativism” and “effete corps of impudent snobs” to label those who opposed the administration.
Forgot to mention: I was wondering why “Lady Day” was accepted as the 2nd half of the movie mashup clue, but I just looked it up, and there was a TV movie long ago of that name about the star. The Diana Ross film was the famous one, of course.
The Maine is an interesting subject. She is not listed as a Battleship by the United States (BB-1 was the USS Indiana) she was ordered as an armored cruiser but was re-designated as a second class battleship because she was too slow to be a cruiser. The first official battleship (actually designated as one) was the USS Texas, which was commissioned on 15 August 1895, a month before the Maine (17 September 1895). Thus, the Maine had a career of two and a half years, not the nine mentioned in the question (careers are measured from commissioning date, not launching date). The upshot is that the information in the question was wrong, the Maine wasn’t a battleship, and wasn’t first.
VJ, I would tend to disagree as the category was ‘Famous Ship’s, and the USS Texas battleship just did not fit that bill. Needless to say, the USS Maine was the first U.S. battleship that went down in history.