Final Jeopardy: World Flags (8-11-21)
Here are some more clues from the 8/11/2021 Jeopardy! game:
The players got all the clues in NAME THAT SHAKESPEARE PLAY:
($400) A literal fairy tale that gets to the Bottom of things with a triple wedding
($800) Laertes gets the short end of the (poisoned) stick
($1200) Mercutio says, “If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark”
($1600) Tragically, not giving a guy a promotion at work ends up inflaming a non-affair to remember
($2000) Demetrius is among the many, many casualties by the end & oh yeah… there’s cannibalism!
ANSWERS: show
Sneak Peek clues — 3-SYLLABLE VERBS
($200) Sometimes combined with “guess”, it means to calculate approximately the amount of something
($400) From Greek for “existing at the same time”, it’s to match one’s actions to the timing of another
($600) Lyft says “45% of Americans have a gig on the side to” do this to their income
($800) In psychology, to contribute to a loved one’s pathological behavior
($1000) An alternate term for a crossroads takes its name in part from this verb meaning what happens when 2 lines cross each other
ANSWERS: show
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This game happens to be on my birthday
That was a bad Final question because Liberia became independent in 1847, South Africa in 1910, Egypt in 1922, and Ethiopia in 1941 according to thoughtco.com. Something does not smell kosher in the state of Denmark with that Final.
Albert, I guess whether the final stinks or not depends on your interpretation of what you’re reading. Here’s something from the Scramble for Africa: “The 10 percent of Africa that was under formal European control in 1870 increased to almost 90 percent by 1914, with only Ethiopia (Abyssinia) and Liberia remaining independent.”
“Hang in there, Matt!”—VJ, what with the Roscoe factor…
Ha ha ha, Cece, I’ll have to keep an eye on Roscoe the rest of the week to see if he’s trying to be a pal or a jinx
Didn’t Italy control Ethiopia for a time in the 20th century? I’m confused.
Yes Albert, Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935 and occupied the country for several years. See the Second Italo-Ethiopian War on wikipedia (there’s a link to the 1895-96 war on there, too). But, as I said in the recap, that didn’t diminish the admiration of the colonized countries for Ethiopia. They were under foreign rule a whole lot longer.
Matt you are brilliant. I can watch you play this game all day long. Keep going!!
Go Matt! I hope you beat Ken Jennings and James Holzhauer!
Matt is a fantastic player, but not in the same league as James and Ken. James and Ken would have nailed the Finals that Matt missed. I would be petrified to face James, but I think I could get lucky against Matt if a few of my best categories popped up in the second round.
He is now the 4th contestant to win over $500,000 in regular games only.
Tough final as we got another triple stumper. Like I said this before, nobody knows about geography.
Hang in there Matt don’t give up yet. I am just happy he didn’t bet a big bundle this time unlike the last few games. I always thought geography flags were in the contestants alley. But still though if Matt can get tomorrow’s final right he will tie with Jason. David Madden also had made a couple of true daily doubles and paid off.
Go Matt go!
Sooner or later the other contestants are going to have to realize that when they gain control of the board they *must* go DD hunting, if for no other reason than to take them out of Matt’s hands. Like yesterday he found all 3 DDs.
When Brianna gained control in DJ she went for the lowest value Shakespeare clue while both DDs were still not found.
A second row math question and the PhD Comp Sci student bets $2000 of a possible $25,200? I bet he was kicking himself after seeing the clue.
Maybe that was a combination of his predetermined bet pattern (go all in on the first round and generally, $4K and $2K in the last round, plus a desire to be a bit conservative today to make it to that half mil.
Yeah, not being under the lights, it’s easy for me to say he should have bet big. With everything that’s at stake, I can understand being conservative.
Well we’ll see what happens in the last 2 games. Tomorrow is the penultimate game of Season 37.