Final Jeopardy: Word Histories (8-13-20)
Here are 6 more triple stumpers from the 8/13/2020 Jeopardy! game:
TOUGH POTPOURRI ($800) If you’ve read “The Flame Trees of Thika” (or if you saw the miniseries) you know that Thika is in this country
STATION ($1000) It’s the Greek letter designation for the International Space Station
GENERAL SCIENCE ($2000) In 1896 this French scientist accidentally discovered radioactivity while researching fluorescence
BIG NAMES IN SPORTS ($1600) In 1986, with the Springfield Fame, she became the first woman to play in a men’s pro basketball league
BALLET ($1200) Von Rotbart is the evil, bird-like sorcerer in this classic 1877 ballet
NEAR EAST ANCIENT HISTORY ($400) To be or knot to be, it was the capital of Phrygia
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — “GRAND” CENTRAL:
($200) 2-word French term for a competitive international road race
($400) This Midwestern city of 190,000 was built on the site of an Ottawa Indian village
($600) Traditional term for a comprehensive survey of the continent for a young upper-class Englishman
($800) Found off Newfoundland, it’s a major source of food fish
($1000) Named for a Paris theater, it’s drama that emphasizes the horrific or macabre
ANSWERS: show
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He stepped back looked to his right then looked again when he realized he could see his neighbors screen. They cut to the left, and by then he had stepped up to write, when he looked like he had given up.
A tough final but this term reminded me of an ER episode from season 12. It was quintessence of dust. I’ve never heard of phlogiston before and it’s not a word in the dictionary. You know VJ speaking of that, there was another word that I found funny and that was sallyport, ever heard of it?
nope, Lou, never heard of that word before!
From Hamlet’s monologue: “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”
Did anyone else notice that Bob cheated and looked at his neighbor Eric’s screen and then had the same dumb wrong answer in final Jeopardy?
No and contestants don’t cheat in Final Jeopardy!, Joe K.
yeah, Bob never turned his head the whole time I was watching
Agreed.
All these 15 champions in this tournament have finished in the semifinals and finals in the past Tournament of Champions.
Tough FJ as we got a triple stumper.