Final Jeopardy: Constellations (7-21-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from then 7/21/2022 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.
THE MET: A VERSE ($600) His painting “The Death of Socrates” is one of the museum’s bigs; he’s French, so say his name like that of singing actor Diggs
CLOSING STATEMENTS ($400) “I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty”
The players got all the clues in HEALTH & MEDICINE:
($400) In 1955 13-year-old Susie asked her dad about an easier way to treat her asthma; dad ran Riker Labs & presto! the metered dose this device
($800) Type I of this disorder once called manic depression has manic episodes of at least a week & depressive episodes of twice that long
($1200) By age 75, half of white Americans have this eye condition that can feel like looking through a fogged-up window
($1600) The most common form of this ailment is the plaque type, named for the patches it forms on the skin
($2000) Pregnant women need 600 mcg of this B9 vitamin daily to help prevent birth defects like spina bifida
ANSWERS: show
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Sneak Peek clues — WHAT’S YOUR “ANGLE”?
($200) To suspend an object over something
($400) To round up cattle
($600) You do this to your keys to make a harsh sound
($800) An ornamental bracelet
($1000) In addition to being a verb meaning to mutilate, it’s also a word for an old-timey machine to iron laundry
ANSWERS: show
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Unfair, UNFAIR, UNFAIR! Knowing that one person is a diehard fan of a category, how hard it is for the J! personnel to change FJ to a different, and neutral, category? Not hard at all! This reeks of unfairness and laziness.
Seems completely fair to me. People have loads of different experiences; the three contestants don’t come from a factory with the same levels of knowledge in all fields. We see this all the time where one contestant is outclassed by the others, or one blows away the competition.
If someone’s a lawyer, they don’t adjust the categories to shy away from anything dealing with the law, Latin, or the Supreme Court. If someone’s from Canada, they don’t change FJ around so the question isn’t based around a province.
It would have been more unfair if they had adjusted to a different category because of her amateur experience with constellations (she’s not an astronomer, after all, just a space fan like so, so, so many people). The games are set beforehand, picked randomly as a set. Chance worked in her favor today; that’s why they play the game.
Very well stated. When I was on the show nearly 35 years ago, I had a nice lead halfway through DJ. Then we hit the Furniture and Classical Music categories. The champ was a 50-something woman who was a classical music DJ. I answered a couple, but she nailed all the big $$ ones and ended up with just over double my score. There were 3-4 clues left in Shakespearean Last Lines, but the bell sounded.
One more right answer and I’d have avoided the runaway. It didn’t matter that I got FJ and she was clueless but bet $0. (The other player was in the hole and bolted from the studio.)
A rather rough FJ today. Actually, I didn’t know quite what to make out of “kid’s tail”, and I sure wasn’t alone.
A kid is a baby goat, so I thought it was pretty easy to pick Capricorn, the goat.
With 3 chat stories to choose from for Emmie, Ken picks her constellations story. You could see that as a warning to the other contestants.
Personally, I would have bet nothing on this, chat story or not. 🤣