Final Jeopardy: Historic Women (7-3-24)
Here are some more clues from the 7/3/2024 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.
PICTURE THE HIT SONG ($1000) Luther Vandross’ tribute to his own dad
20TH CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY ($1000) In 1948 the U.S. was one of the 21 western hemisphere nations that banded together as the OAS, this
A LONELY WORD ($200) A monastery courtyard is in this word meaning “shut in alone”
WATERFALLS ($800) Tugela Falls in the Royal Natal National Park of this nation has a total drop of 3,110 feet
($1600) A series of famous namesake cataracts on this river is located 11 miles above its confluence with the Parana River
($2000) A Yosemite fall with a wispy ribbon of water that flutters in the air like diaphanous cloth bears the name of this marital wear
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($200) This novel by Emily Bronte tells of the doomed love between Cathy & Heathcliff
($400) Mitch Albom still had more to learn from his dying college professor in “Tuesdays with” him
($600) A wolf infected with this viral disease attacks Old Yeller, so Travis makes the heart-wrenching decision to put down his dog (sob!)
($800) You know that Hazel & Augustus have cancer in this Y.A. novel but Augustus’ death is still a gut punch
($1000) Charlie Gordon & a white mouse are both–guinea pigs? Lab rats?–the subjects of an IQ-boosting surgery that ends sadly in this novel
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It wouldn’t have mattered at the end even if Kelly hadn’t rung in on that last clue in double jeopardy.
I did somewhat above average during the game, and flubbed the FJ again. Actually, the first thing that came to my mind in FJ was Mary Queen of Scotts, but I instead went for Joan of Arc. You know, the name ‘Stuart’ is sometimes hard to recall. Accordingly, I’ll have to remember the actor Stewart Granger to help me recall when the queen comes up in Jeopardy next time.. Anyways, it was another fun game! By the way, happy Independences Day everybody! I’ll unfortunately miss today’s game because of the celebration.
That Bridal Veil Fall was bogus. Out of over 20 Bridal Veil Falls on wiki, that is the ONLY “Fall”. Had they not used Niagara the clue above, there is a Bridal Veil FallS there.
I don’t know why, but, $500 wagers bug me.
I wonder if Kelly is any relation to E. Annie Proulx, who wrote “The Shipping News”, “Bark skins”, and “Brokeback Mountain”, among other things.
I was 3/3 on DD (I said aloud, to myself only, that Dana must not have been raised Jewish!). HOWEVER, for FJ, a big, fat NOTHING. Not even a clue. Nothing. Bupkis. Nada. Rien.
Oh well. We’ll see if Isaac can string two together!
*Barkskins”
And we got a triple stumper as today’s final was a tough one.
Ouch, the addition of a letter “s” on the last clue made the game a runaway for Isaac, although ultimately it didn’t matter, so maybe the internet won’t blow up tonight. For the record, we have one here in Oregon by the same name, WITH the “s” at the end. (The writers did use the word “fall” in the clue, though.)
I knew these “youngstas” would never get the lonely word in the Dylan song. Disappointed no one knew the OAS, the rough equivalent of NATO in this area of the world. Only DD I knew was the “Pillow Talk” movie, which I never saw, but remember well. Co-star Rock Hudson was a closeted gay man who nonetheless starred in a number of romcoms. My mostly lame answer for Final was Elizabeth I.
Isaac said his dad was on the show in the early years. Could have been around the time of my appearance (1987-88, season 4).
Hah, the Pillow Talk star was way more out of their generation than Dylan. I saw Pillow Talk a long time ago but don’t remember much about it. I think of “Calamity Jane” and her performance of “The Deadwood Stage”. It sure beat Clint Walker’s!
He said Goldfish. Its Goldfinch.
That was our mistake, Ed. I wasn’t looking at the screen on that one. Isaac definitely said goldfinch. It’s fixed and thanks for the heads up.
I heard goldfish. I’ve sent the audio to over five people now without the video. Everyone has replied that they hear gold fish.
I don’t doubt it. That’s what I heard too, but I wasn’t looking. He was shown an image of a bird. Why in the world would he say goldfish?
Captions on, it’s goldfinch.
I agree 100 % with you!
He said goldfish.
They undoubtedly just got it seeing in the captions as the were expecting to hear goldfinch.
It’s seems obvious that the show would prefer women champions–maybe to even it out. Because of this, they “Protect” a woman winner by choosing weaker contestants–although everyone is smart etc. I’m sure they have a rating system. They also come up with categories that relate directly to the contestant. For example I have seen a librarian choose “Fiction for 800, Ken”. Don’t tell me that the questions are made up months in advance…they can always be changed as they know the contestants in advance as well.
We’re not gonna tell you the questions are made up months in advance. It just seems like once someone decides the show has a bias, they are going to see whatever they think supports that opinion.
The real question is if you think it’s a rigged show, why bother to watch it?
Isaac mentioned in the chat that his dad was on the show in the 80s and lost his game. Today Isaac won and he made his father proud.