Final Jeopardy: Books & Authors (7-14-23)
Here are some more clues from the 7/14/2023 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.
GOOD AFTERNOON! ($600) In “Anchorman” Will Ferrell sang “Afternoon Delight”; in 2022 Will & Ryan Reynolds sang “Good Afternoon” in this Dickens of a film
A TOUCH OF GREY ($800) Known for Old West novels, Zane Grey died in 1939, the year he published an “Epic of a Single Strand of Wire” about this company
SCIENCE ($1600) Your helpful radius bone enables your hand to pronate & to do this opposite motion meaning “to face upward”
($2000) Inside protons & neutrons, quarks are bound by these particles whose name reveals their sticky nature
AROUND THE HOUSE ($1600) Mark Twain wrote of a “vestibule, where they used to keep” this; today, we’d more likely have the coat version
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($200) The Pleistocene glacial epoch is also knows as the great this
($400) The CDC describes it as “a temporary sleep problem that usually occurs when you travel across more than three time zones”
($600) A killer for hire, like TV’s Barry Berkman
($800) Beastly term for someone who religiously works out at, let’s say, Planet Fitness
($1000) This Scottish outlaw spent time in Newgate Prison but was pardoned before he was to be sent to Barbados
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I never came across the novel ‘Murder At Full Moon’ so I didn’t come up with a correct response for FJ. Being that the work was never published, I could sure see why.
@Jacob; the year Jack London died – 1916 – is mentioned in the recap on the line with Daniel’s FJ bet.
VJ, Thanks. Shows that I don’t read closely. My bad. 😞
I got FJ as a total guess, strictly on the central CA thing. Struck me as rather arcane.
Agree, Daniel was a force. He sounds and looks like Denzel Washington – wonder if he’s kin? That show, Claim To Fame, has that on my mind.
I still stand on unwieldy clues; in this case, the Mark Twain one. Just clunky.
Jason, Daniel was definitely sharp. When Ken addressed him as “sir” when inquiring about how much he wagered I knew Daniel was in rare air. He’s got to be younger than Ken. 😂😂
I bet the Boston family would not have been a stumper if they went with a more well-known poet. Not totally sure about Amy, but certainly James Russell
“No price is set on the lavish summer;
June may be had by the poorest comer.
And what is so rare as a day in June?”
Then, if ever, come perfect days…
But it was “poet Robert” that gave it to me right away.
Daniel was very smart, very likable, and super fast on the button. But he’s darn lucky he had that big lead. “Central California” led me right to the author and likely did the same for his opponents.
The vitamin B3 in the word syndication wasn’t too tough. Those B vitamins do have other names.
As Ken pointed out Jack London wasn’t a bad guess because he was from the same general area as Steinbeck. The years were off though because London had died before 1930 I’m sure.
As for the B vitamins you are correct they do have other names.
On a different topic I learned something new this past week from the Business media. The first gold discovered in America was in North Carolina. I fact checked it by googling “the history of gold” and sure enough 1799 in North Carolina gold was discovered. This would be a good Jeopardy Clue imo. I bet most people would respond California. 🤔
We are only 2 weeks away til the Season 39 finale.
A long-ago acquaintance of mine recently contacted me to tell me she will be on that show.
What, the finale? Now that is WAY cool!!