Final Jeopardy: Man-Made Objects (7-18-23)
Here are some more clues from the 7/18/2023 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.
AN ABBREVIATED CATEGORY ($400) SHDC: In order of rank at the bridge table
AFRICAN FILMS ($2000) In “Night of the Kings”, a prisoner in Abidjan acts as one of these West African storytellers & spins a tale to stay alive
WORLD OF FIRST NAMES ($2000) “Wave” goodbye to this boys’ name & hairstyling term; it hasn’t been a popular name in France since the 1920s
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Sneak Peek clues — PREFIXES & SUFFIXES
($200) Appropriately, this prefix comes before -diluvian & -cedent
($400) This prefix that leads into -adroit means bad
($600) French gives us this 4-letter suffix that makes everything smaller
($800) Meaning pain, this suffix follows fibromy- in a very painful disease
($1000) From the Latin for “around”, this prefix hangs around “-flex” as a mark used in French words
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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What else could the FJ answer have been? This had to be one of the rare times I hit all 3 DDs and FJ, Chelsea could have made FJ even more interesting if she’d scored on those 2 DDs. The first was confusing but not impossible (think Dostoevsky) and it helped on the other to know the author’s political bent.
I usually don’t let contestants’ idiosyncrasies get to me, but David’s head-and-hand shrug every time he was called on got old really quickly. I’m still in recovery from Matt Amodio’s “What’s” that prefaced every response.
The bridge suits stumper was a pushover, as was the Sally Ride shuttle.