Final Jeopardy: World Languages (7-5-24)
Here are some more clues from the 7/5/2024 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.
GEO-POURRI ($800) Illyria is an ancient name for the northwest part of this European peninsula
ORGANIZATIONS ($000) With a saint & a vehicle in its name, this British-based charity traces its history from 11th century Jerusalem to CPR training in 2024
LAYERS ($400) In painting your masterpiece, it’s “fat over lean”: each successive layer should have a higher content of this standard medium
TV “B”-RUNS ($1600) Alice Pearce won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress for playing nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz on this sitcom
($2000) During the summer of 1972, reruns of this long-running Western were shown under the title “Ponderosa”
MIDWESTERNERS ($1600) Each episode of this show salutes “our program’s co-founder”, Chicago giant of public radio “Mr. Torey Malatia”
($2000) In 2023 this Iowa-born techie behind the Mosaic & Netscape browsers posted an inspiring or scary “Techno-Optimist Manifesto”
THEY WROTE FOR SPORTS ILLUSTRATED ($800) In 1962 Jimmy Breslin noted, “Basically, the trouble with” this new Major League team “is the way they play baseball”
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: FRENCH SLANG & PHRASES
($200) In Cote d’Ivoire French slang, mon pain, literally “my” this, means “my boyfriend”
($400) Some French people hold une clope, one of these between 2 fingers outside a bistro as they contemplate life’s meaning
($600) Tomber dans les pommes is a phrase for passing out but literally means “falling in a bed” of this fruit
($800) BCBG translates to “good style, good class”, “good” being this “B” word in French
($1000) Unique to Quebecois slang & meaning “Get ready!” is attache ta tuque; a tuque is one of these
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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VJ, when I looked it up this morning, that four pointed star of the Aruban flag actually symbolizes the four points of the compass rather than the four major languages. In fact, that four pointed star denotes the more than 40 nationalities that are living on Aruba. I cry foul!
It depends upon what source the clue writers used. According to the CIA World Factbook, ” the star represents Aruba and its red soil and white beaches, its four points the four major languages (Papiamento, Dutch, Spanish, English) as well as the four points of a compass, to indicate that its inhabitants come from all over the world.” Apparently the clue writers used the CIA World Factbook.
Concur (as usual) with my erstwhile friend Howard. These challengers were lacking.
I was 100% on English, French, Dutch for final. So, I got the tough one correct, but bagged the other!
Got 2/3 for DD.
The imported languages were actually English, Spanish and Dutch for FJ.
Did you know that erstwhile means “former”?
I did not! As such, I need a nickel word for “always”!!
Pretty meek opposition today. Sarah cost herself $1000 second-place prize by stupidly wagering $4500. I said English/Spanish/Portuguese (and unlike the contestants, spelled the last one correctly), totally forgetting that Aruba has Dutch history, like Curacao and Surinam.
The “Brahma” part of that first DD was a dead giveaway to the river.
They were not particularly easy, but I knew the founder of the NWSL team, the melted cake topping, and the French clope. The Ponderosa show and the 1962 baseball team were somewhat easier. The “clope: clue should have been labeled a stumper, n’est-ce pas?
Vraiment, Howard. The answer has its * on the Sneak Peek clues now. That was one of the funny moments of the show — picturing someone holding a baguette between two fingers.
When I was a kid, my brother and I were forbidden to watch the Cartwrights on the Ponderosa if we were being punished. I guess that shows how much we liked it.
I did above average in today’s game, but was surprised that none of the contestants knew much at all about the TV reruns. As for FJ, I came up with English, Spanish and Dutch at first, but I then changed the latter to French at the last moment. Drat! I certainly should have known better as Aruba was indeed a former Dutch colony.
Isaac’s 33 correct responses tie Drew Basile for the most correct responses of the season. Sarah overwagered and it gave Alex a second place prize.