Final Jeopardy: The Great Lakes (9-29-20)
Here are 2 more categories from the 9/29/2020 Jeopardy! game:
The players got all these clues in ELECTION ODDITIES:
($200) In 2014 this Supreme Leader of North Korea won 100% of the vote in his district
($400) The 1964 election to make Papa Doc Duvalier president for life of Haiti had this 3-letter French word already marked on ballots
($600) In 1955 this country’s P.M. Ngo Dinh Diem printed his ballots on lucky red paper & his opponent’s ballot on unlucky green paper
($800) In 19th c. New York the Dead Rabbits Gang used force to make people vote for candidates of this Boss Tweed political machine
($1000) In 1927 Charles King won the presidency by more than 200,000 votes even though this African country had only 15,000 registered voters
ANSWERS: show
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — THE “BOSS” OF POP CULTURE:
($200) In 2016 Sharon Price John, CEO of Build-A-Bear, got a unique look at the company on this show
($400) Buddy Valastro began living up to this TV title in a Hoboken bakery
($600) Jennifer Aniston was part of an awful trio making employees’ lives miserable in this 2011 comedy
($800) We think the answer to this title ’80s sitcom question is Judith Light, not Tony Danza
($1000) Alec Baldwin was all business as the voice of the title infant in this 2017 film
ANSWERS: show
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I thought the “lightheadedness” answer should have been accepted. I’ve heard physicians use that term. It didn’t matter, but it was demoralizing…
As to the final Jeopard question was confusing. If you sort of knew the question already you could figure it out, but honestly, it was so oddly worded, that I think “Superior:” should have been accepted. Why not ask something like:; “According to a much-loved 1844 poem Lake Superior was given this name by Native Americans who inhabited the region”. That way there would be no confusion about what was being asked,
Maybe the current questions need a couple more seconds. It seems to me that there has been a lot of running out of time as of late. Too many answers seem to be “What is Gitc_______________”
I thought this was a good match between the players. Molly had a strong beginning and somehow got outbuzzed by her opponents in the second half of the game. But still overall good contestants imo. Enjoyed watching this match.
That has got to be the worst and most confusing question ever asked on jeopardy… it was a total mind f’ of a question
I honestly don’t see what was so confusing about the FJ! — the contestants and regular viewers well know that the word this is used to indicate what response they are looking for. Here’s the clue:
An 1855 poem gives us this Native American name for the 1 Great Lake not known to us today by a Native American word or a tribe’s name (emphasis added)
If they wanted Lake Superior, it would have said “a Native American name” (or they just would have put in that name like they did in the 2019 clue in my earlier comment) and “this 1 Great Lake”
I think difficulty was that the second half of the clue, everything after “this Native American name” was oddly worded and difficult to parse on first reading. And it was even harder given the fact you had to try to maintain in your short term memory that you were looking for “this Native American name”.
Ah, well, I can’t speak to that because I had the luxury of reading the clue this morning and knew the answer by the time I got to “the 1 Great Lake”.
But, yeah, 2 players apparently did forget or overlook the “this” pointer
I agree with JP, and would add “under the harsh lights, while Alex stares at you while you’re trying to decipher the answer/question.
I think Mason, the song writer, should write a song titled Lake Hiawatha:.
There already is one, Cece. It’s about Lake Hiawatha, NJ “the town without a lake” 🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha. Could someone please inject some life into that song?
I had no problem with the clue once I read it carefully, and knew the answer right away.
I thought Alex’s comment to Mason was off-base, as Hiawatha was certainly on the right track.
Even though it had no effect on the outcome, I thought the handling of Eric’s response to the fainting clue was poorly handled.
Players were pretty good pre-final tonight and left me only a couple of crumbs to pick up, Pavlova and alternative. Maybe one other, not sure.
That was possibly the poorest worded final Jeopardy I have ever seen.
I was excited to get the answer correct right away. My reference is a song by a great Canadian, Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Awesome!
Awesome, indeed, LoriAnne! I was wondering if Eric has that record in his 45 collection
🤣🤣🤣
the question is not clear whether it is asking for the common name of the lake or the name of the lake from Longfellow’s poem. If I had been answering the question I would have written both. Lake Superior and Gitche-Gumee.
You’re right, but that’s a lotta writing in a relatively few seconds….
Should have mentioned that the answer was referring to Lake Superior!!
Third Tuesday triple stumper as it was a hardest FJ.
I have never heard of this fj answer either although I do know Hiawatha, but we still need a streaker to close out the week. I would have thought that this was a triple solve VJ? I also had gotten Lake Hiawatha as well.
There’s a place in New Jersey named Lake Hiawatha. Here are the last two clues that mention today’s FJ! response:
10-23-2019 A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON ($1200) Longfellow’s line “On the shores of Gitche Gumee” from “The Song of Hiawatha” refers to this Great Lake
10-13-2016 A POETIC CATEGORY ($800) “The Song of” him includes the lines “by the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water”
There’s a lot more on J-Archive
There’s also a quick look at Longfellow’s most famous poems right on this site
Scott Lord got it in the $1200 clue Literary Settings, his fourth game — “Hiawatha pitches his wigwam “by the shore of” this alliterative body of water”
I still don’t understand the question.
I must be lightheaded!
It was very clumsily worded, in my opinion.
So today, Houston Jeopardy! was interrupted after the first round to show the police in a low-speed chase after a white car on I-10. My daughter and I were watching it and her boy came over and said “Is that daddy?”🤣🤣🤣 (His father has a white car)
VJ, that is too funny. Amazing what comes out of the mouth of children. 😂
I’ve never heard of today’s FJ! answer, but it seems like every time it’s a Tuesday, and I have online El Centro Classes, tonight’s show results in a Triple Stumper, even in times when we almost 1 had solve, but players messed up, and Mike Richards likes being persnickety. Why?
I don’t know why.
Me neither, but obviously, tomorrow will be different, and let’s just hope for an easier time, and that SOMEBODY gets Final Jeopardy! right.