Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Americans (9-23-24)
Here are some more clues from the 9/23/2024 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.
4 TIMES THE FUN ($400) In Norse mythology, Austri, Vestri, Nordri & Sudri are 4 of these diminutive beings who hold up the celestial skull of Vmir
KEY OR PEELE ($400) Keegan-Michael Key narrated this series based on a Seuss story that included episodes titled “Here”, “There” & Anywhere”
($1000) Jordan Peele’s characters on this “magazine” sketch show included Killbrain the Fury & the Game (in an ad for Post-It Notes)
WHODUNIT? ($400) “Detective Cross”, on the job
($1000) Brass Verdict”: “The Mickey Haller & Harry Bosch continue to find Hollywood is just murder
I SERVED IN 2 PRESIDENTS’ CABINETS ($1600) By George, he was Nixon’s man at Treasury as well as Labor & Reagan’s at State
($2000) Or 3: James Schlesinger was Defense Secy. for Nixon & Ford & Carter named him the first Secy. of this new department
8-LETTER WORDS ($400) Scientifically, a prism separates white light into the colors of this
($000) With the same first 4 letters as a word for a lack of knowledge, it means personal humiliation
PHYSICAL SCIENCE ($1600) Rusting & photosynthesis are basic examples of these reactions, a word combining oxidation & reduction
FORMER CAPITALS ($800) In 1284 a parliament began meeting at Moot Hill in Scone; in 1452, it moved to this city
OSCAR, MEET TONY ($2000) Jose Ferrer got the inaugural Best Actor Tony in 1947 & an Oscar in 1951 for playing this swashbuckling character
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: MAGAZINES’ FIRST COVERS
($200) In 1977 he starred in “Slap Shot” & graced the first issue of US Magazine in a story about his auto racing career
($400) Spin Magazine debuted in 1985 with a cover pic of this “Material Girl” by Herb Ritts, who shot many of her covers
($600) The first issue of this magazine in 1953 had Marilyn Monroe in black & white on the cover & a much more famous color phot inside
($800) This magazine debuted in 1997 with Christa Miller as its first alluring cover woman
($1000) TIME’s first cover in 1923 featured Joe Cannon, who was retiring from the House of Reps after 46 years, 8 in this role
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I had essentially no idea for FJ, but I first said “Walt Whitman”, but then thought, maybe Thoreau, but went back to my gut from the first week, and went back to Walt Whitman. I was wrong, anyhow. But, Bronson Alcott? How was that supposed to help? I have never heard that name until this show.
I had to laugh a bit when David said “Phillip Patek”. My one single claim to snobbiness is that I own two of the answer to that clue! And, what I say? “I didn’t need the first one!”
At least I didn’t have to watch Jen make another inane wager.
I missed most of the first half of the Jeopardy! round (three clues before the first commercial break). There was a football game on this evening.
Jason, there were a lot of people attending Hawthorne’s funeral service. One newspaper report I saw said ex-President Millard Fillmore was there. Others mentioned were Fireside poets Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier and James Russell Lowell. I’m guessing they picked Alcott because of his connection with Hawthorne’s home. Louisa May Alcott was friends with Hawthorne’s kids and she was at the service, too.
That was a tough final as we got a triple stumper to start the week.
I got 4 out of 5 in the ‘Presidents’ Cabinets category as I missed the one in the Carter administration. Even then, I performed slightly below average in the game, and flubbed the FJ (that was a tough one). Yes, it was hard to make out David’s scribbling in FJ (wrong anyways), but David won the game just the same.
A triple stumper to start off the week. 30,000 is the highest score this season going into FJ! We thought that David is going to set the record for the highest payout this season, but it didn’t happen.
This reminds me of the 3rd week of Season 37. On the FJ! Recap from 9-28 to 10-2-20, Eric Aiese’s win on September 28th, 2020 made him happy. The commenters who yearn for a long streak, myself included? Not so much.