Final Jeopardy: Opera (7-8-24)
Here are some more clues from the 7/XX/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.
TRUCK & TRUCKIN’ SONGS ($000) Not sure what Rhett Akins drove, but it wasn’t a 4×4 from this brand because “that ain’t my truck” in his girl’s driveway
($800) The longtime CMA Awards co-hosts have truck songs: Brad Paisley’s “Mud On The Tires” & her 2023 “Out Of That Truck”
20TH CENTURY AMERICA ($800) Drew’s great aunt, she gave a great performance on Broadway in 1905 as Nora Helmer in “A Doll’s House”
($2000) Established in 1946 to control the development & use of nuclear power, this commission was superseded by a new agency in 1974
BOOKS ($800) John le Carré put the “spy” in spy novel titles with this 1974 book, the first in the George Smiley-Karla trilogy
($1600) The first name of Stephen King’s P.I. Gibney, it’s the title of a 2023 bestseller where she takes center stage
VOCABULARY ($800) An irregular past tense verb, or a minor quarrel, a squabble, a tiff
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 3 OF A KIND
($400) Merriam-Webster, New Oxford American, Scholastic Children’s
($800) Henry Kissinger, Yasser Arafat, Médecins Sans Frontières
($1200) Harpy, martial, golden
($1600) Asher, Judah, Gad
($2000) Roland, Oliver, Fierabras
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What I know about opera could fit on the head of a pin, with room to spare, but FJ was a breeze.
Karan the geography whiz nailed the two bottom clues in Capes, then inexplicably switched categories. And of course the DD was in the middle clue. Perhaps he’d have made it a game had he stayed with it. But good for Isaac for hitting all 3 doubles and FJ.
Not into country music, but I always watch the CMA Awards and really enjoyed the banter between Paisley and the stumper host when they were on together. Shame on them for not knowing Drew’s legendary relative. I didn’t expect them to know the nuclear agency, but I remember when the name changed. The spy novel had to be one of two, and the irregular past tense verb/quarrel was easy. All but one of the 3 of a Kind were out of my league.
@Howard, if I was writing that quarrel clue, I’d would have worked “Return to Sender” in there. “We had a quarrel, a lover’s this”
I wonder if any of them liked Elvis
That second TS on page 1 is really clunky the way it’s written. Along with other clunky clues, I wonder if they’re all written by the same writer.
I got FJ. While time was still going, I thought, maybe The Mikado, but stayed with my first thought.
1/3 on DD, and less than half of the TS.
Good to see you up, VJ!
Thanks, Jason. The internet connection was out completely yesterday. It’s kinda shaky today but hopefully it will be good enough to get things done today.
I agree with you about clunky clues. I thought one of the J6 clues was confusing. I wasn’t sure if the pronoun referred to the Scourge of God or someone else