Final Jeopardy: New York Movies (9-19-24)

Here are some more clues from the 9/19/2024 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.

ART & ARTISTS ($1000) Manet seems to be inviting us to step right up & partake of the bounty at this hyphenated nightclub

BUGGING OUT ($400) In 2011 the Cockerell’s variety of this large bee was rediscovered after 55 years in the White Mountains of New Mexico

FROM THE TV SHOW’S THEME SONG ($800) “Yeah, it might be all that you get, yeah, I guess this might well be it, but heaven knows I’ve tried”

LITERARY EPITAPHS ($400) Keats’ tombstone in Rome’s Cimitero Acattolico reads, “Here lies one whose name was writ in” this

($1600) In the chancel of Holy Trinity Church, Shakespeare’s epitaph ends, “Curst be he that” does this

($2000) Before invoking the names of these 2 Roman poets, Alexander Pope wrote, “In peace let one poor poet sleep”

U.K. CITIES ($1600) The Church of England has 2 archbishops–the one of this city ranks second to the Archbishop of Canterbury

($2000) Dylan Thomas called this “sea” city of his birth “an ugly, lovely town… crawling, sprawling by a long & splendid curving shore”

TOUGH VOCAB ($2000) The French word for “hand” comes at the end of this word for a skill dextrous magicians possess

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: MEMORY
($200) A 1974 experiment showed this type of testimony including a body part varied if a question was about a car hitting vs. smashing another
($400) An actor who has all the lines memorized is said to be “off” this
($600) This type of memory is held in employees’ personal recall of the history & culture of an organization
($800) Also meaning “aloof” or “far off”, this 6-letter type of long-ago memory is stored differently & may be less affected by dementia
($1000) An example of this mental device is “I wish I knew” for the square root of 2, which is 1.414

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10 Responses

  1. Esme says:

    Considering the rageful ass Sinatra was, I believe the story.

    • VJ says:

      I believe it’s true, Esme, that Frank had a bad temper. I never was a big fan of his (I loved Dino!) but Frank was in his 70s when that movie came out. I thought he had mellowed by then.

  2. Howard says:

    Missed the show again. Got FJ pretty much because I remembered the film taking place at a pizzeria. Topaz rhymes with amethyst? Don’t think so. 2/3 DDS were not too bad, maybe all 3 if you knew the middle DD’s author.

    The Folies Bergere is a hyphenated club? Not when I was there in 1971. It would have been my answer, though.
    The link to Shakespeare’s epitaph was taken down, but I looked it up.
    Stumpers really tough, knew the French one with “hand” in it.

    Re FJ bets: my issue is with Jen, not Chris. The leader is more or less compelled to assume 2nd place will bet it all. Therefore, $9601+ IMO should have been her wager. Chris has to assume she will get it wrong and she has bet big. He wagered $1601 which “should” have been enough to pass Father Steve if he doubled to $10800 & pass Jen if she bets large. As it played out, Chris’s “smart” wager was too low, but only because Jen under-wagered. Maybe she deduced he’d bet small, who knows?

    Although I didn’t see the show, I don’t see how someone with $5400 who loses it all on FJ deserves a second chance. I did way better than that.

    • VJ says:

      I guess it’s just me but, imo, Chris bet that Jen would be wrong and Steve would be right, when he should have bet that he would be right. Also, I was hoping Chris would notice Jen’s low DD bet of $600 when she had over $2K. Because of that, I fully expected a low bet from Jen in FJ!

    • Jason says:

      He was just charismatic, at least to my viewing. Yikes, sounds like I opened an old wound!

  3. Ismael Gomez says:

    All 3 DDs were missed resulted our third skunking of the season. I hope William Weyser will say darn those daily doubles to the contestants today.

  4. VJ says:

    It’s games like this where I wish I could slip second place a note. “You have to beat the leader🤞”

    • Jason says:

      Too true, VJ. Just these nonsensical wagers make me wonder. I liked Father Steve – I wonder if he gets an invite for Second Chance.

      Now, I don’t recall totally, but, Ken didn’t refer to David Sibley as Father, did he? David is “JV Catholic”, so, maybe that was it.

      I got FJ wrong. I did say a Spike Lee film, but I said “Crooklyn”. Oh well!