Final Jeopardy: Inaugural Balls (7-22-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from then 7/22/2022 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.
A MONTH OF HISTORY ($1000) The Tet Offensive begins, surprising U.S. commanders
BRITISH FOLKLORE & LEGENDS ($1000) The Glastonbury thorn seen here (image) reputedly grew from the staff of this man, also said to have brought the Grail to England
WORDS WITH DOUBLE LETTERS ($1000) In feudalism, it was someone given a “fief”, land & workers, in return for services to a lord
EXPENSIVE FOODS ($600) At only one farm in Sweden, cheese is made from the milk of this largest deer, known as elk over there
($800) The Yubari King type of these gourd fruits are dazzlingly sweet & sometimes go for $5,000 or more each
AT CROSS PURPOSES ($800) Roscoe Turner, who entertained folks when he flew with his lion pal, is one of the few civilian pilots to earn this medal
SPELLING THEIR EGOTS ($800) 3 Es as Outstanding Guest Actor for “Mad about You”; a Comedy Album G or “The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000”
($1600) One of Marvin Hamlisch’s 3 Os: Best Original Song for the memorable theme to this Redford-Streisand pairing
METALLIC EXPRESSIONS ($2000) A song in “Guys and Dolls” is called “Fugue for” these, slang for gamblers with more flash than cash
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ($2000) This private Catholic university in New Jersey was named for a woman who was one of the first American-born saints
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Sneak Peek clues — THE TV TITLE CHARACTER SPEAKS
($200) “Guilty of being the god of mischief? Yes. Guilty of finding all this incredibly tedious? Yes”
($400) I spy thus spy said, “Lana… Lana… Lana… Lanaaaaaaaaa…! Danger Zone”
($600) This psychiatrist like his brother’s wife “from a distance…like the sun. Maris is like the sun. Except without the warmth”
($800) “I can kill a man, dismember his body, & be home in time for Letterman. But knowing what to say when my girlfriend’s feeling insecure…”
($1000) This physician: “I need 36 Vicodin change for a dollar”
ANSWERS: show
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I was surprised no one knew who wrote Vanity Fair, also surprised that no one knew the Redford-Streisand song.
I was surprised at more than a few of those stumpers. Like the Northern snakes in the grass and the New Jersey Catholic university.
Mostly I was surprised that anyone would spend 5000 dollars or more on a Yubari King.
Yes, what I was about to say. I was surprised Vanity Fair was a $2K clue, and doubly surprised no one knew it. The Hamlisch song wasn’t too hard to get, and the “Mad About You” Emmy winner is a comedy legend.
I was sure FJ answer was Graceland and never gave it a 2nd thought. Oops…But the category and the year were big hints.
A triple stumper, and as if anyone was supposed to have recalled what Paul Simon had sung at the 1993 Tennessee Inaugural Ball, and not even a hit song at that.
Ouch! It was a pretty decent hit hitting 23 on the charts and part of his Grammy win for Album of the Year. Not sure I’d say it wasn’t a hit, or forgettable given how much it gets played on classic rock stations even today. I was pained that only one of the three came up with a Paul Simon song, but that’s just how it goes; not everyone has the same knowledge base as another.
Ironically, when I read the clue, my mind instantly went to the title track for that album, Graceland. It all made so much sense to me: Graceland -> Memphis -> Tennessee. It was one of those foolish moments where you’re so certain you hit it in the first try you don’t even start to consider other possibilities. But, again, ah well.
That was exactly the same for me. I thought, “Graceland, duh?” I was fixed on that idea.
Yes! That was a very popular song. Even my parents (who were born in the 1920s) liked it.
Still, the Inaugural Ball was 7 years after the song made its debut. I wonder how many of them would have gotten FJ! if the clue just wanted to know the name of the Tennessee person the ball was for. That is, did anyone connect it to the new VP and just not know Simon’s “Al” song?
P.S. My son called me from NJ to let me know he got it!
Well, all three of those contestants might beg to differ.
Differ about what?
We ended the week with a triple stumper but we are now only a week away until the Season 38 finale of Jeopardy!
I think it’s safe to say that the low amount of Triple Stumpers in the last two games was thanks to Matt. Too bad the Daily Doubles did him in!
$11,200 in Triple Stumpers, including the missed Alcott DD, and a correct FJ! means winning the game from the fourth podium
It was Jennings who wins since today’s final was a tough one.