Final Jeopardy: Literary Animals (7-26-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from then 7/26/2022 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.
ACROSS HISTORY ($1000) I am this Pharaoh I, founder of the 19th Dynasty! How did my mummy spend years in the Niagara Falls Museum?
OFFICIAL STATE STUFF ($200) You are welcome to know that the knobbed whelk is New Jersey’s state one of these
MOUNTAINS ($2000) This Canadian mountain is second only to Denali as the highest peak in North America
IDOL TALK ($2000) In the 7th century this Middle East city was said to be home to as many as 360 idols, including the moon god Hubal
FROM FILM TO TV ($1600) In the TV version of “The Exorcist”, Geena Davis was this character all grown up, but with a possessed daughter of her own (Note: just the first name was okay)
($2000) We saw the early life of a psycho in the sort of TV prequel “Bates Motel”, with this actor as young Norman
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Sneak Peek clues — FILL IN THE PLAY TITLE
($200) By August Wilson: “The ____ Lesson”
($400) A Tony winner: The ____ Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
($600) A reptilian title: Tennessee Williams’ “The Night of the ____”
($800) From a line in Shakespeare: “____ & ____ Are Dead”
($1000) Exploring the relationship between a teacher & his deaf student: “Children of a ____ ____”
ANSWERS: show
The category in this post originally said “Literary Characters” because that was the way it was shown on Jeopardy!’s website:
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Alexa blew her chance at staying in the game by missing that pretty easy DD. She even expressed shame for not getting it.
Mark looked SO familiar, maybe like a character actor. He had an odd habit of lurching his right arm forward when he’d ring in on a clue.
I never read Winnie the Pooh, but figured from 1926 what book it was and what sidekick they were after.
Couldn’t name one song by the band in that Sirius photo, but the leader’s face was familiar enough to ID him. The Exorcist girl was a tough one, but I read the book and saw the movie long, long ago, and she was pretty memorable. Linda Blair’s claim to fame.
The guy from the 3rd DD (Biblical middle name) came to me right away, although TBH I thought he died later on the Titanic.
Ed’s a pretty cool customer and could be a 5-timer soon. I have to root for him as a fellow senior and because I lived in Dana Point twice in the 70s and 80s.
Also, Mark’s FJ wager seemed goofy, but then I realized he was locking out Alexa, right or wrong, and knew Ed pretty much had to wager $6801 and miss.
The Titanic guy was the great grandson.
Like November 3rd, 2016, the correct response on Final Jeopardy! was Eeyore, and like that day, at least 2 out of 3 players knew it was Eeyore.
Only 3 more games until the season finale.