Final Jeopardy: On the Old Map (9-28-20)
Here are 5 more triple stumpers from the 9/28/2020 Jeopardy! game:
U.S. GEOGRAPHY ($200) The fittingly named Mount Sunflower shines as the highest point in this state
($1000) At its south end this 25,000-square-mile desert named for a people borders the Sonoran Desert
DOCUSERIES ($800) Part 5 of this CNN series about the royal family is titled “The Princess, the Prince and the Press”
RESTAURANT RHYMES ($800) The athletic activity in a shopping mall show
ELEMENTAL FACTS ($1600) Needed for the thyroid gland, this element, Atomic No. 53, is essential to the human body
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — WRITERS ANONYMOUS
($200) The anonymous author of the 2019 book “A Warning” is listed as a senior official in this administration
($400) This anonymous Old English poem about a hero fighting monsters survives in the Nowell Codex at the British Library
($600) These 85 essays were attributed to “Publius” when they appeared in New York newspapers from 1787 to 1788
($800) Tender-conscience is the hero of an anonymous author’s “Third Part” of this work, tacked on to John Bunyan’s Parts 1 & 2
($1000) In 1827 this 18-year-old American anonymously published “Tamerlane and Other Poems”, including “Visit of the Dead”
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Dear VJ, I am still alive and check Fikklefame every day. Wonderful FJ question, but I would replace Palestine with (The) Gambia. Palestine considered in the Middle East or the Near East (if one is British). I remember the world maps back in the mid-1940s very well. I think most kids knew world geography very well, as big things were happening everywhere. My mother survived the “Spanish flu”(sic) epidemic in 1918 when she was 9 and started collecting British Empire stamps. Which was strange as she was mostly French Canadian. Anyway I still have her complete collection. For years I carried a Newfoundland half-dollar in my pocket. Those things get lost. Like my “I Like Ike” button, and my grandfather’s McKinley button. Glad to have Jeopardy! back, Trebek looks well.
omg, Taiwan Bill! Believe it or not, I was just wondering last night if you would post a comment soon! Great to hear from you!
This was my tenth Final Jeopardy skunk for the year, since I also skunked the contestants last Tuesday with “What is Siam or Thailand?” which is how I announced my response to my wife, who happened to be watching with me. For tonight’s program, the initials “R.F” were a possibility I considered, but that would be a French language version for “Republique Francaise.” “G.B” is the island, not the nation, so I went with “What Is U.K.” in the final seconds.
Ten for the year, and it’s not even October yet. I don’t know if I’m getting smarter or the questions are getting easier.
We’ve had a lot of problems with Final Jeopardy! lately.
We began the week with a triple stumper and just like Tuesday, nobody knows about geography.
VJ, Thanks for such detailed and thorough research. Excellent information to know. The video is very informative. You’re the greatest!! 👏
Thanks, Jacob 😊 Wow, at the results… I never considered the G.B. abbreviation as a possible answer. I thought one wrong answer would be FR for France, even though it’s not initials
That really was an excellent video. I just subscribed to the channel, but it doesn’t look like they upload very often. I will probably be going through their backlog of videos in the coming days.
I’m looking at them, too. They have one on the Seven Years’ War that mentions the War of the Austrian Succession and Maria Theresa. omg! I am always a bit shocked when she is a TS. Aside from being Marie Antoinette’s mommy, she was a contemporary of Catherine the Great. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Catherine be a TS.
Very tricky clue to start the week. I thought the players would get this one. Just hope this week will have Eric make a four or five game run and hope for an easier final tomorrow, VJ. Aren’t Colorado and Colorado state the same? They should have just accepted the original response.
Two different colleges, both are public. Just like Oklahoma/OK State, Oregon/Oregon St.
“Colorado” refers to the University of Colorado, with main campus in Boulder. Colorado State University is a land-grant university (that started as an A&M) whose main campus is in Fort Collins. Two different school systems with separate governance.