Final Jeopardy: 20th Century America (9-24-24)
Here are some more clues from the 9/24/2024 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.
I’M LOOKING FOR A MAN IN FINANCE ($1000) He founded his publicly owned investment firm in Baltimore in 1937; perhaps you’ve seen its bighorn sheep logo?
THIS & THAT ($1600) This word can refer to an idealized concept of a loved one formed in childhood, or the final developmental stage of an insect
WALT, WIT MAN ($800) On this show, Walton Goggins as Boyd tells Raylan Givens, “If a book could only be judged by its cover, you’d be a bestseller”
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($200) Before a March 12, 1933 radio broadcast, he portentously remarked, “I think this would be a good time for beer”
($400) 2 months before he lost his head in 1794, this leader established the cult of the Supreme Being in France
($600) U.S. Army troops massacred hundreds of Lakota near this South Dakota Creek on December 29, 1890
($800) In 1411 Chinese admiral Zheng He captured the king of this island south of India & took him to China
($1000) Others insisted they were just following orders, but this obese Nazi took “100% responsibility” at Nuremberg in 1946
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I got FJ (also not a Californian). 2/3 on DD, because I knew it was Turing, as an idea, but couldn’t think of his name (it was “you know, that guy!”)
The resemblance of David to Clint Eastwood is really rather remarkable, at least to my eye!
Surprised no one knew the speaker on the 1933 broadcast.
FJ was a cinch because we’d moved to the Bay Area a few months earlier.
A very momentous time, as the Jonestown massacre also took place that month (many of the victims were from the SF area), and my wife had her first of three miscarriages and the only one that almost killed her. Plus my parents were visiting from NY at the time and we had a 1-year-old. In later months, we learned of Dan White’s “Twinkie defense” for the murders.
It was another great game, and it was clearly a runaway for David. As for me, I was stumped on FJ, but then again, I wasn’t a Californian either.