Final Jeopardy: Shakespeare (9-25-24)
Here are some more clues from the 9/25/2024 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.
LIT-POURRI ($600) Actresses who are blind were cast to play the blind Marie-Laure in the 2023 miniseries based on this Anthony Doerr novel
CLASSIC COCKTAILS ($600) Maybe at Havana’s El Floridita, Ernest Hemingway in an afternoon could drink 12 of these–he liked them with grapefruit juice
AMERICAN HISTORY ($800) The first census, for this year, revealed that the population totaled 3.9 million (Note: See March 1st)
GRAMMY ALBUM OF THE YEAR ($800) The first of Taylor Swift’s record 4 AOTY Grammys was for this album in 2010
($2000) Billy Joel was the “Big Shot” in 1980, winning for this album that bears the name of a thoroughfare
CAVES ($1600) Most of the 4.6 mil. shells of Kent, England’s Shell Grotto are local but there are shells from this Caribbean Sea snail as well
HOW ‘BOUT A GAME OF CARDS? ($2000) If you “declare out” in this 48-card game, play stops & tricks are counted; if you have 1,000 points or more, you win
ART TERMS ($1600) Here’s Verrocchio’s take on the little nude cherub known by this Italian term in art
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($200) In 2020 Juan Soto led the National League in this with .351
($400) The SONY PlayStation headset & the Meta Quest 2 promise a seamless immersion into this simulated environment
($600) An animal observed in the wild is said to be here, as in “we’ll see the rhinos in their…”
($800) Psychological term for a child’s unconscious attraction to a parent of the opposite sex
($1000) This Georgia newspaper that debuted in 1883 merged with the Constitution in 2001
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I’m not big on Shakespeare, and Macbeth seemed almost too obvious, but that’s what I’d have gone with. The DDs were unkind to me.
Drew seemed headed for a runaway, but David chipped away one clue after another. I just knew if he’d find the DDs he’d take charge.
Knew the Billy Joel street, the first census, and guessed the snail shell.
I missed all DD and FJ. As I am not a Shakespeare scholar (I barely know the Prince of Denmark from the Prince of Tyre), I did not recognize that line, and, like Drew, said “Titus Andronicus”. Like Ken said, also bloody, and I figured, “Go big or go home!”
Wow, another great game, but I thought that Macbeth was too easy in Fj. Instead, I went for Brutus in Julius Caesar.
Good idea, but not a title character.
VJ, the first word of the last DD should be “punning”
Thanks!
Drew had a big lead 3/4 throughout the game but David stormed back to take the lead and was able to maintain his lead going into FJ! David has won over 90k and Drew gave him a huge run of his money. Drew has to be considered to be in the running for the Second Chance Tournament by having a big lead at the end of the first round and 22 correct responses, he’s gotta be in the Second Chance.