Final Jeopardy: Literature (7-9-24)
Here are some more clues from the 7/9/2024 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.
TSA YEA OR NAY ($800) Nay to this inflatable safety device, so you might as well leave yours in your car
($1000) Warning! While you may check firearms & ammo, certain places, like these islands, TCI for short, prohibit them from coming in
WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS ($1200) The mainly Chinese tourists in this East Asian capital can see the People’s Palace of Culture & the Revolutionary Martyrs’ Cemetery
THE HUMAN BODY ($800) Below the diaphragm is this organ that filters out worn red blood cells & is the largest single mass of lymphatic tissue in the body
($2000) From the Latin word for “wool”, it’s a layer of fine hair that covers a fetus & some newborns
A SHAPELY CATEGORY ($800) Now part of Nestlé, this pet food brand is headquartered at Checkerboard Square in St. Louis, on a campus with 3 dog parks
Reversals: A SHAPELY CATEGORY ($2000) The numbers in any direction total the same number in the arrangement called this – Ken rejected Isaac’s magic triangle response but the judges were okay with it
11-LETTER WORDS ($800) From the Latin for “strengthened”, it means to back up another person’s account of events – Ken accepted Kathy’s response of “corroborate or corroborated”; the judges made him take it back because Kathy added a 12-letter word to her answer
($1200) Carl’s Jr. burgers have been this, cooked on a rack at high heat & maybe even burned a little – Isaac was nixed on chargrilled. Kathy was nixed on flamebroiled. Ken was looking for charbroiled. The judges chose to accept Isaac’s answer and he got $2400. Kathy’s reply was moot so she got back $1200.
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: MOMENT OF “ZEN”
($200) Toss off the cough with one of these medicinal tablets
($400) Shameless, or made of an alloy of copper & zinc
($600) This app calls itself “a personal safety network”
($800) Widmer Brothers offers one of these beers that’s made with wheat
($1000) Ronald Colman was a “Prisoner of” this 1937 film title locale
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Briefly, Isobel burned Burton’s translation of “The Perfume Garden”, even though she was offered £6,000 for it. If you think that was bad enough, she also consigned to flames “almost all of his 40 -year collection of diaries and journals. She did design the Bedouin tent raised over their graves (Isabel died in 1896) in Mortlake, SW London.
1/3 on DD, but got FJ somewhat easily. You want to know what is difficult to get? A book of all the “Thousand Nights and a Night”, complete. Sir Richard Burton (not the actor) translated them, but, then, did something which I will NEVER understand: when he died, had his wife burn all his papers, including the translation. I mean, the dude got circumcised to enter Mecca as a non Muslim! (Unbeknownst to them.)
There are, all told, over 300 stories.
Got about 1/2 the TS, as usual.
Ok, I’m all wet. They were published.
Yikes, that was a whole laundry list of changes made mid-game.
I thought FJ MIGHT be Aladdin, then realized last-second who it was, but not in enough time to have written it down.
As Kevin said, I have no idea what Anna was thinking, other than waving the white flag and playing to ensure second place.
Some of those stumpers ranged from easy to at least gettable. The Peck/Mengele film (a personal favorite), the BRK-A company (I jokingly tell people I’m the 2nd biggest shareholder of their main holding), the inflatable car device, the capital with the Byzantine mosque, and the Checkerboard Square pet food company.
I did exceptionally well in Jeopardy today, but didn’t break any record. As for FJ, I went for Aladdin too. On a side note, the 1958 film ‘Vertigo’ seems to appear regularly in the Jeopardy games.
I don’t understand Anna’s wager, it doesn’t make sense at all. If she is right and wagered what she did and Isaac is wrong and goes for the lockout, Anna would have lost and she made a bad wager. But it didn’t matter in the end since Isaac was the only player correct and he now qualifies for the Tournament of Champions.
What I found so unusual in this game is that there are 4 scoring changes in this game in DJ! It’s never happened before.
Kevin, there were only 3 scoring changes.
Four: magic triangle; corroborated; char-grilled or whatever Isaac said; and $$ added back to the player who also missed that 11-letter word clue.