Final Jeopardy: British Monarchs (9-11-23)
Here are some more clues from the 9/11/2023 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.
SCIENCE CLASS ($400) In natural form a mixture of 3 isotopes, this element is the most abundant in the Earth’s crust & in the human body
SOUNDS LIKE FOOD ($800) While playing, Ginger Baker would hold one of these in each hand, but he’d get little nutrition from them
WORLD OF BARBIE ($800) In 2016 Barbie got 3 new & diverse body types in addition to her original: tall, petite & this 5-letter adjective
GREEK GEOGRAPHY ($2000) Corfu is in this sea on Greece’s west coast
RENAISSANCE LITERATURE ($800) The play “Antonius”, Mary Sidney’s translation of a French work, helped revive this form of “lone speaking” monologue
($1600) Poet Henry Vaughan wrote a book of religious devotions bearing the name of this “Mount” near Jerusalem
($2000) Margaret of Navarre’s 16th century book of stories “The Heptameron” was modeled on a longer work by this Italian
STARTS WITH “G” ($800) Eugene Field’s poem “The Duel” featured the calico cat & this dog (The poem is set to music on this page)
($1200) This type of full-rigged sailing ship popular in the 16th & 17th centuries might have one or 2 tiers for guns
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Sneak Peek clues — LATIN BESTIARY
(200) This creature puts the leap in lepus, its Latin name
(400) That bubo, this avian, was making noise all night & I couldnt sleep
(600) Instead of its deadly moniker, you can call the creature seen here by this 4-letter Latin name
(800) A horse is this, also a Peter Shaffer play title
(1000) Pullus, “chicken”, gives us this English word for a young and yummy hen
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
Today’s game is the first to award increased consolation prizes.
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Props to my fellow Oregonian Jill for her win, although her wager was over the top. I was a bit surprised she didn’t know what metal hematite was part of. And shocked no one could remember the “Trees” poet’s surname, which easily led to the related actor. Other stumpers were tough for this group and me, except for Ginger Baker, whom I saw perform in 1969 in his 2nd supergroup. His Facebook page is administered by his family.
I remember we all had to sing the song version of Kilmer’s poem in 5th grade. I liked that poem before then.
Here’s Bob McGrath singing “Trees”
So, haven’t seen it yet. It’s on here in 35 minutes. I wonder if I’ll recognize “recycled clues”!
Ok, didn’t recognize any retreads. But, Jill’s wager was… quizzical. She just needed $1001. Oh well, go big or go home! I was rooting for Derek.
I think, if ANY tournament needed the wild cards, this would be it.
We almost had an instant DD skunking to start the season.
I wasn’t expecting Jill to wager everything but it worked out well for her. She took a big risk and it paid off. Great way to start off Season 40.