Final Jeopardy: Historic Figures (9-30-20)
Here are 6 more triple stumpers from the 9/30/2020 Jeopardy! game:
BRITISH GOVERNMENT ($1000) In 2006 in the British House of Lords the job of Lord this was largely replaced by Lord Speaker
MUSICAL STYLES ($800) Selena was named Female Vocalist of the Year 11 times at the awards named for this style of Latin music
ALL MY TROUBLES ($600) We overpaid & never got the vacation weeks we wanted–where’s that Kiplinger’s article “How to Get Rid of” this
THEATER TIME ($1600) The Tony-winning play named for this European city is set during the 1990s negotiation of peace accords between Israel & the PLO
LET’S GET MEDICAL ($2000) A co-founder of the Brain Injury Research Institute, he was a movie subject for identifying CTE in football players
PLAYING THE PART ON TV ($2000) Angela Abar / Sister Night on “Watchmen”; Sandra Palmer on “24”
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — HOUSEHOLD NAMES:
($200) You hang your curtains on this
($400) A 2015 study showed that even if they pay online, more than 90% of U.S. households still preferred these to be mailed to them
($600) It’s an “indolent” revolving tray for foods
($800) This bendy fastener
($1000) Hebrew National makes a kosher beef type of this
ANSWERS: show
We may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases made from Amazon.com links at no cost to our visitors. Learn more: Affiliate Disclosure.
A little bit surprising that a musician/composer didn’t know WC Handy or Tejano. Neither one of those was tough. But usually these “kids” on Jeopardy just amaze me with their knowledge of stuff I grew up with.
Somewhere in a deep, dark crevasse of my brain I vaguely remembered TR getting shot, so that’s how I thought of him first. I knew for sure McKinley was 1901.
Tomorrow will be the first all-male game of season 37.
And second season in a row to fall on a Thursday (it happened in season 36 on September 12, 2019, Jason Zuffranieri’s 10th game).
It’s nice to see the board being cleared.
Well, after two triple stumpers, mason got this one so congrats to him. We need him to break the leader curse. But still though Katrina was pretty close with her response. Honestly, what was kamal thinking with Ernest Hemingway? If I recall correctly, wasn’t he the author of the old man and the sea? I don’t remember him ever becoming a us president, VJ. But hey. I would love to see Roosevelt and Hemingway meet, don’t you?
Could you explain what you mean by “I don’t remember him ever becoming a us president”?
I mean Ernest Hemingway was never nominated as a president of the United States. In other words he wasn’t inaugurated or sworn into the white house. I hope that clears up the confusion, jp.
I suppose I should have asked what relevance that had to formulating a response to the final jeopardy clue.
lol, JP, what occurred to me is maybe I’ve been reading Lou’s similar comments wrong all this time. Maybe he is just making an observation and I’m inferring that he thinks the contestant should have known, in this case, that the correct response was a U.S. president. I don’t know.
In any case, Lou, Ernest Hemingway was an adventurous type of guy and I thought he was actually a better answer than McKinley. At least Hemingway was alive at the time.
I’m actually reading “For Whom the Bell Tolls” right now, coincidently, to finish off my tour through classic 20th century American literature over the last 18 months. Some very good books and a few duds.
The category was Historic Figures, not US presidents. There was nothing in the clue to indicate it was a president.