Final Jeopardy: Literary Characters on Screen (7-7-22)
Here are some more triple stumpers from then 7/7/2022 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.
HEMINGWAY ($1000) Hemingway ate his last meal on July 1, 1961 at Michel’s Christiania Restaurant, still a hangout for skiers in this Idaho city
FROM THE SPEEDWAY ($600) The era of one-company sponsorship for the championship of NASCAR began with this tobacco brand in 1971
($1000) The purpose of drafting, or following closely behind another car, is to create this between his tail and your nose so he pulls you along as your draft is reduced substantially
NEXT LEADER IN LINE ($400) Scottish kings: Malcolm II, Duncan I, him
4-LETTER ACRONYMS ($800) The “E” in this acronym that precedes “package” originally stood for Europe, where the packages went
SUCH GREAT CHEMISTRY ($400) This point for a substance as a liquid is basically the same as the melting point for the same stuff as a solid
THE SCARF ($1200) Clearly a real-life scarf wearer, she made a green one famous in “Confessions of a Shopaholic”
OLD NEWSPAPERS ($800) Founded in 1703 in this city, the Wiener Zietung is considered the world’s oldest surviving daily newspaper
“G”EOGRAPHY ($1000) The first G in this city, Sweden’s main seaport, is pronounced in Swedish like a Y
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
Sneak Peek clues — WHICH NEW YORK CITY BOROUGH?
($200) is home to the New York Stock Exchange
($400) is the most populous of the 5 boroughs
($600) is where you can see the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, built for the 1964 World’s Fair
($800) is 14 miles long & has only about 5% of New York City’s population
($1000) is the location of Pelham Bay Park, which is more than 3 times larger than Central Park
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I have no idea how I knew the Holmes answer, but I heard or read it somewhere not real long ago.
Brian just made it under the wire. Smart player who fell behind only because of the DDs.
Some tough stumpers, but I thought the Scottish king and the NYC borough (the only one not previously named) were gimmes. The “E-acronym package” surely wasn’t too tough. I don’t follow NASCAR too closely, but remembered the name of the cigarette sponsor from long ago.
Howard, I said the same thing to my daughter when they missed that last borough – there’s only 5 and they already named the other 4. I guess those three people never heard the New York, New York, it’s a helluva town song or they would have known what’s up!
On the old newspaper, they could have nailed that if they knew the German name of that city
I was also quite miffed that they missed lapin’s old burrow lol.
I half expected someone to say something like “as usual, no one knows anything about city names in German”. Since I’ve been learning Deutsch on Duolingo, I knew that one.
At first, I blanked on FJ, but, before time was up, I did get it.
Very funny, Jason. 😁 I know you don’t mean me because I don’t think that a triple stumper necessarily means all the players don’t know it. There are other reasons why they won’t ring in, I think, like not totally sure, fear of saying it wrong, or not wanting to take a guess. That is to say, they don’t want to risk losing $$.
Here’s a cool map on jakubmarian.com with European capitals in native languages
Yungsheng Wang is not on the list for the Tournament of Champions.
Wow, a tough FJ to be sure. Actually, I had a hard time coming up with anything. In any case, Basil Rathbone’s portrayal of Sherlock Holmes was the best by far.