Final Jeopardy: Historic Geography (9-19-23)
Here are some more clues from the 9/19/2023 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.
YOU BETTER BELIZE IT ($1000) After a hurricane & a tidal wave hit Belize city in 1961, the capital was moved 50 miles inland to this city to avoid flooding
THE ASIAN GAMES ($1000) 2018 competition of these 1-person runabouts took place at Indonesia’s Ancol Beach
PHYSIOLOGY ($2000) The small intestine is lined with a mucus membrane and these fingerlike projections
WHAT COULD IT “B”? ($1600) These trees of Africa & Madagascar are often called upside-down trees
FUN & GAMES ($200) This annual event falls on the feast day of St. Stephen
($1200) Ludo is another name for this board game, sometimes called India’s national game
($2000) Cutthroat is one type of this card game that has a name derived from French for “two-eyed”
PHRASES & IDIOMS ($1200) Jane Austen wrote in a letter “It was 12 before we reached home. We were all” this hyphenated canine phrase
($2000) A James Thurber character who’s full of expressions not only uses “the catbird seat” but “tearing up” this garden area
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Sneak Peek clues — SCRAMBLING TO FIND A JOB
($200) A water watchdog: FEUDAL RIG
($400) aka a bibliothecary: BRAIN LAIR
($600) A bid taker: ROUTINE ACE
($800) A capital expert: STOIC OMEN
($1000) A postnatal practitioner: INDICATE PAIR
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Amazing how they got through both boards with all the stumpers and wrong responses. Ken does keep it moving, though. FJ was obvious only after I learned the correct answer; I lamely said Antigua. I thought the Antilles were just above South America. Maybe I’m thinking of the Lesser Antilles or Netherlands Antilles.
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer tonight. The anagrams were embarrassing. The bid taker was obvious, as was postnatal practitioner.
They all were, in reality. How someone got “OB/GYN” out of that last one, I’ll never know. What I did know was the German royal house, the Austen two-word phrase, and the board game of India.
My fellow Portlander came back strong from his minus $2K beginning.
Elizabeth should have won if she didn’t bet very big on that Daily Double and if Rob was incorrect and would have lost a lot of money in Final Jeopardy!.
And, moreover, Elizabeth and Morgan forgot their phrasing several times.
I thought Rob was going nowhere. Good on him to bounce back. And, he made the only good wager for Final.
Wow, a couple of contestants again missed the FJ. Actually, Puerto Rico was a no brainer. Anyways, one couldn’t help but notice the sheer number of stumpers in today’s game. I mean, I lost count as to how many times the buzzer rang in, and I was only surprised that Ken Jennings still managed to keep a straight face through it all.