Final Jeopardy: Comedy & Sports (7-30-21)
Here are some more triple stumpers from the 7/30/2021 Jeopardy! game:
“TENDER” ($1000) If you’ve been “left to” someone’s this 2-word idiom, you have no protection from whatever they wish to do with you
3 CONSECUTIVE VOWELS ($2000) Meaning “made up”, it also refers in legal terms to any business name that’s not the official incorporated one
The players got all these clues in BOOKS & AUTHORS:
$200: Rachel Chu heads to Singapore with her ultra-wealthy boyfriend in this 2013 novel by Kevin Kwan
$400: This “miserable” guy says, “I was a convict. I have spent nineteen years in prison”
$600: The Richardson family’s house is a victim of arson in this bestseller by Celeste Ng, adapted as a Hulu miniseries
$800: Zadie Smith’s “On Beauty” is modeled on this author’s “Howards End”
$1000: Christopher Isherwood is known for stories based on life in this European city in the 1930s; here’s how he looked in that decade image
ANSWERS: show
Sneak Peek clues — POETRY IN MOTION PICTURES
($400) This actor reads “The Song of Hiawatha” in a laundromat in 2004’s “Spider-Man 2”
($800) In “The Outsiders” C. Thomas Howell recites this poet’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
($1200) Edward Lear’s nonsense poem “The Jumblies” is perhaps fitting amid the chaos of World War I in this Sam Mendes film
($1600) In the film of the same title, Lee Remick quotes to Jack Lemmon Ernest Dowson’s lines about “the days of” this pair
($2000) This South American poet is a character in “Il Postino” & his poems like “Ode to the Sea” are featured in it
ANSWERS: show
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Regarding the category “FOWL BALLS”, I take issue with so many of the answers being about birds that are not fowls,–i.e. raptors such as falcons and eagles. Fowl birds are chickens, peafowl, guinea hens, and the like. Please confirm!
Thanks!
Sorry, Darleen, I am just recapping the game and I don’t have any affiliation with the show or any input into the categories or clues. (If I did, you wouldn’t see another Robert Frost clue for 10 years).
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That was a tough triple stumper. As for me, I couldn’t even hazard a guess.
You can make $300K on Monday, Matt!
This was super easy FJ despite it being the dreaded sports category (not the dreaded opera) category. As it was journalism-related it was an almost instant solve. I am really astounded it was not a TV JEOPARDY! triple-solve. Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s On First” is one of the most iconic famous brilliant comedy routines ever!
Alfred, I can’t imagine that Abbott and Costello routines are anywhere near as popular with the current generation of J! contestants as they were back in the old days, or that anyone planning on going on the show would watch any of their routines as part of their preparation.
That being said, back in 1999, when my daughter was 6, I put on the Abbott and Costello monster movies. That’s some funny stuff… you should have heard the belly laughs coming out of that child!
VJ, we heard Who’s On First during school sometime at the beginning of the year. We even did a play for it and our teachers substituted for some of the students. It was very fun and my brother and I practiced very well like very wonderful and responsible students! I think it was during the week where I didn’t really get to go to the writing group, but yeah! It was very fun!
Very cool, Darius!
Felt good to get a FJ that even the great Matt couldn’t answer. Pays to be old sometimes.
I have a photo on my computer of an Asian baseball player named Hu (on the back of his uniform) leading off first base.
Matt will face his 3rd guest host next week, which I Imagine no one else has ever done.
Go Matt go!
If he gets to 18 wins (10 more) he closes out Season 37 as an undefeated champion.
Yeah, DC! Even if he wins 19 games that will still happen!
We end the week with a triple stumper as today’s FJ was tough.
Well no triple solve this week but we finish the week with a clean sweep by Matt and a few dismissals. Congrats to matt on winning 8 games. Even if he missed only two final jeopardy categories i think he might get to 400k as long as he doesn’t falter next week.
Prediction: Matt loses after 13 victories.
My prediction: Matt loses after 19 victories to tie with David Madden and Jason Zuffranieri,
Great game by Matt today.
Once again we ended the week with a triple stumper but congrats to Matt on his 8th win. We are only 2 weeks away until the season finale.
There have been too many weeks this season where we almost make it through this week without a Triple Stumper, and the Friday Triple Stumper comes along and ruins everything. Still, congrats to Matt on winning 8 games & almost making it to $300,000.
That’s right. The curse of Friday could happen again.
And it could still be a triple stumper too.
Why in the world does a “triple stumper” ruin everything??? That’s part of the game.
@Brian, it really doesn’t ruin everything but it seems that if there are two triple stumpers in FJ on the same day of the week for 2 weeks in a row, suddenly that day is “cursed”.
Actually, in July, out of 5 Fridays, 2 FJ’s had one right answer and 3 were triple stumpers.
That was a curse! I don’t like it when there are weeks like that. Nor weeks that everyday is a triple stumper in FJ! 00000, for you, there is nothing to blame.
I have no desire to argue the point, Darius. I just don’t agree with that opinion. In my opinion, perfect games are hard to come by and some of the expectations around here need a serious adjustment.
Mine too VJ. You’re not the only one.