Final Jeopardy: Government Officials (7-17-23)
Here are some more clues from the 7/17/2023 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.
TOM SWIFT TALES ($600) In his first tale back in 1910, Tom was riding high on his hog in “Tom Swift and His” this
($1000) I’m both attracted & repulsed by 1932’s “Tom Swift and His Giant…”
WORLD ROYALTY ($400) 11th century Olaf “the Tax King” was the first Swedish monarch to issue these, which must have made it easier to pay up
FISH PEOPLE ($800) Seen here (image), she became the first woman elected as Mayor of Los Angeles
WITH BELLS ON ($1200) During this formal ecclesiastical censure, a priest will ring a bell
($2000) This word refers to a set of bells in church; there must be at least 23 bells & as many as 78
OPPENHEIMER ($1600) Emily Blunt: “Arguing that the far-flung Manhattan Project needed a central facility, Oppenheimer helped choose an isolated New Mexico location for this top-secret site, described as an ivory tower frontier boomtown”
($2000) Matt Damon: “I play this hard-driving U.S. Army general, described as the Manhattan Project’s indispensable man who oversaw the project from its inception through the successful testing & eventual wartime use of the atomic bomb”
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Sneak Peek clues — WHAT’S THE NAME OF THAT TV SHOW?
($200) Seattle’s Cafe Nervosa was a hangout for the title psychiatrist on this TV series
($400) Ms. Weissman is the maiden name of the title character of this show that ran for 5 seasons on Amazon prime
($600) The Great Cornholio is an alter ego of one of this animated title pair
($800) From 2004 to 2012 Hugh Laurie played this crusty but skillful title M.D.
($1000) Adrian Zmed was the rookie partner of the title character on this 80s police drama
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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FJ was a gimme. Uneven show tonight, but all 3 rebounded from their numerous missed DDs and high-$$ questions. Jerry wagered correctly on FJ, Daniel did not.
Like Jerry, I tried out for the show about 55 years ago when it was in NYC. I was under age and surely would have been DQ’d if I’d passed. I think I did OK on the written test but never got called back. I went to a few tapings at NBC and once won the home “Jeopardy!” game (which I still have) from Don Pardo during audience warmup, when I knew who the “It Girl” was.
Tom Swift “attracted and repulsed” only stumper I guessed right. Learned a lot about Oppenheimer and it makes me want to see the movie.
Clara Bow FTW!
Daniel’s uninspired responses kept it close. Jerry seemed somewhat slower in his gameplay than the other two. I noticed Ken ran out of time at the end of the first round – that’s why he cut so quickly to commercial.
But, a win is a win!
Disappointed show with all 3 DDs were missed resulted our eighth skunking. The DDs was not nice to anybody today. Good thing that we got spared from a total bust.
I said “Darn Those Daily Doubles”. I couldn’t avoid it, and you’ll notice that if Jerry wagered everything and got it right, which he did, he & Daniel would have tied at $14,800, because Daniel wagered to tie with Jerry, and they would have had to go to a tiebreaker, but that didn’t happen, because Jerry didn’t go all the way with his wager.