Final Jeopardy: Hit Songs (7-2-21)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 7/2/2021 Jeopardy! game:
FAMOUS NAMES ($600) His artistic career lasted just 10 years, from 1880 until his death from a gunshot in 1890
($800) The founder of China’s Yuan Dynasty, he constructed a new capital city in 1267
OTHER STUFF HAPPENED IN 1492 ($800) Perkin Warbuck was a pretender acclaimed by many as Richard, Duke of this royal house that had recently been ousted from England
($2000) In May hungry peasants called the bread & cheese folk briefly seized this Dutch city; you could call it a rage in…
CANADIANA ($2000) Almost 100 billion tons of seawater comes & goes daily in this top vote getter in a CBC poll to determine the 7 Wonders of Canada
WHAT A FUNGI ($1600) The giant type of this mushroom is named for the way it releases spores; it can contain seven trillion
($2000) LSD was created from this fungal disease of cereals known to create its own hallucinations
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Question for VJ: on Wed 6/30/21 in the “Colorful Vocabulary” category, would ‘blue bloods’ also be accepted in addition to the accepted answer of ‘purple’? I had blue bloods.
@Albert, I don’t think “blue blood” was acceptable for that clue:
“If you’re part of a royal family, you are “born to” this color”
I said blue blood too and marked myself wrong because you just don’t say someone was born to blue blood or born in blue blood
The phrase is either born to the purple or born in the purple
Thanks. I never heard in my life about the purple expression, even though i know purple is a royal color.
The 2 who lost are definitely champions, imo. Mckenzie answered a question and i never ever heard of the answer in my life. Very impressive.
You’re welcome, Albert.
Here’s something I meant to add to the comments on this game yesterday but didn’t get around to it: I was watching Svengoolie Saturday night and he had extra time at the end of the movie (She Wolf of London) so he got out a book of limericks and read an altered version of Hickory Dickory Dock. (which showed up as the first clue in today’s Limerick category)
At first I questioned McKenzie’s wager, because she had to hope Nanci missed. A $1001 wager would have won the game, as it turned out. But she bet enough to beat Courtney had the latter bet $8600 and they both got the final right.
Disappointed that I didn’t get the final. I knew it was Carter and Ford, and am heavily into pop music from that era, but just didn’t recall the Band doing that song.
While it didn’t hurt the final game result, I feel the answers “night oil” and ” Baskin and Robbins” should have been considered incorrect.
I did not notice the Baskin and Robbins answer but definitely the “night oil” response. I was sure they would come back from the break and correct that mistake. I wondered if it was only my perception of the phrase but googling “night oil” only got me “midnight oil”.
I can see Baskin & Robbins being accepted because they were two different people who co-founded the company. As years passed by the company hyphenated their names.
I thought this was a good game tonight in that the scores were close throughout the match until fj. A big congratulations to Courtney for becoming a 5x champ.
We end the week with another triple stumper.
Too obscure. Unfair to contestants, viewers, and fans. Perhaps the FJ questions could be focus-grouped?
Considering the air-tight security the clues are guarded with, that will never happen.
Courtney made a clean sweep this week as a streaker despite missing today’s final jeopardy. When.the Jimmy Carter hint came up, I immediately thought of Georgia. I guess this one requires the knowledge of US presidents. Was Nanci thinking of Herbert Hoover VJ? Because it looks like that’s what she was writing down. Two triple stumpers in final and.for the first time in four months we got a five day champion. Thank you to jeopardy for making this happen.
No, I doubt she was trying to write down the name of a president, Lou, when the clue was looking for the name of a song
😂