Final Jeopardy: 20th Century People (9-20-23)
Here are some more clues from the 9/20/2023 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.
NAME THAT PLAY ($800) “It’s terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a single gentleman caller”
($1000) “Begin thine incantations, and try if devils will obey thy hest, seeing thou has pray’d and sacrific’d to them”
THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU ($2000) A sauce of egg yolks, sherry, cream, butter and seasonings over lobster and buttered toast points is served as this
OPERA ($400) In this Verdi opera, Manrico is a tenor & a troubadour, the meaning of the work’s Italian title
($800) “Cav & Pag” is shorthand for the pairing of this one-act opera by Mascagni with “Pagliacci”
($1200) The plot of this comic opera by Mozart centers on 2 sisters & their soldier boyfriends; the 3-word title is fun to say
“HIGH” NOTES ($2000) Fittingly, Swoosie Kurtz, Joel McCrea & Tuesday Weld are alumni of it
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Sneak Peek clues — B MINUS
($200) A B fallS off a charred word & becomes this funereal container
($400) Knock a B off a Biblical tower & get the name of this Biblical murder victim
($600) Wash away the B from a type of small river & get this name for a chess piece
($800) Sink the B off a group of ocean vessels & get this horse food
($1000) When a cetacean fatty layer sweats out its B, this unskilled seaman is all that’s left
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show
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Hmmmm……..l initially thought that the 1954 decision was concerning someone’s civil rights. If I had read the answer better, I might have selected Robert Oppenheimer. Anyways, I believe that Robert Oppenheimer subsequently became an anti war activist (which was why he was labeled a communist).
I thought I knew a bit about opera, but, man, that category seemed really tough. I think I got one right.
Pam is from my area, so, I have to root for her!
And, I agree – first DD should have been a gimme.
I haven’t seen the movie yet, and I honestly don’t know much about Oppenheimer, but I did come up with it based on the 1954 clue.
What I know about opera could fit on the head of a pin, but somehow I came up with the $2000 Puccini opera and also the $400 clue. Very surprised that first DD was missed; it was chock full of clues to the JFK-era agency. I thought surely someone would know the play with the gentleman caller. I’ve seen a couple versions of it on film and TV. When I’d answer the phone and it was a male asking to speak with my wife, I’d hand her the phone and tell her she had a gentleman caller.
Also thought one of those sophisticates would know the lobster dish.