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”

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

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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4 Responses

  1. Howard says:

    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.

    • Jason says:

      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!

  2. Ismael Gomez says:

    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.

    • William Weyser says:

      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.