Final Jeopardy: Biblical Places (9-30-24)
Here are some more clues from the 9/30/2024 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.
HIT THE TRACK ($400) Most of the equestrian events of the 1984 Summer Olympics were held at this 320-acre track in Arcadia, California
($1000) This Baltimore track was named for a tavern near London favored by early American colonists
PENNSYLVANIA LITERARY HISTORY ($400) If you read Lisa Scottoline’s bestsellers, it makes sense she graduated from this school at Penn & has taught there
($2000) Before vast novelized histories of Hawaii & the Mideast, he put his Doylestown youth into “The Fires of Spring”
WOMEN ON TV ($1200) Golda Rosheuvel plays her on “Bridgerton”; India Amarteifio plays a younger version on a “Bridgerton” offshoot
($2000) A 2-time Oscar nominee, she plays Athena Grant on “9-1-1”
IT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 30 ($2000) 1787: This ship for which a Pacific Northwest river is named sets off on the first round-the-world voyage by a U.S. vessel
7-SYLLABLE WORDS ($800) A nondisclosure agreement is also known as this kind
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($200) Leading exports from Honduras include these fruits, historically called “green gold” from their color when shipped
($400) Just follow your nose to Belize to discover this keel-billed type of this tropical bird, a national symbol
($600) One of the world’s best ecotourism destinations, this nation is “rich” in places like the Monteverde Cloud Forest
($800) The name of this capital means “Holy Savior”
($1000) About 3,000 square miles in area, the largest lake in Central America is this one that bears the name of a country there
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I feel as if I should have known Final, but sure didn’t. Mt. Sinai surely wouldn’t cut it, I knew that much. Too bad the women were left in the dust by Ryan. He rebounded well after that tricky first DD. I really thought he’d know the Pittsburgh playwright, as some or all of his plays took place there.
Knew the two unanswered racetracks, one of which I’ve been to many times.
“Cosmic Connection” wasn’t too hard to figure out. A bit surprised no one knew the author of “Hawaii.” My parents were avid readers and I know they read that one.
Re the marijuana question: tomorrow is the 9th anniversary of its legalization in my state.
A great game today and a clear runaway for Ryan. As for me, I performed well above average in the game.
Regarding the FJ, I’m afraid that I never heard of Mount Zion.
When I was looking up old clues, to my surprise, this was a $400 clue in the JIT quarterfinal that Matt Jackson won: According to the psalmist & Bob Marley, “by the rivers of” here we sat down & “wept, when we remembered Zion”
I must not have heard that clue because I don’t think Bob Marley ever covered “Rivers of Babylon” (based on Psalm 137). So I looked on YouTube to see if he did. There’s a bunch attributed to Marley but they’re all by the Melodians, whose orig. version is Rasta (so Zion refers to Ethiopia). Boney M’s version took out the Rasta references.
We learned in the interviews that Ryan proposed to his wife the day before she taped Jeopardy. Ryan is the wife of Lauren who competed about 3 years ago on the day that it was last day of Ken Jennings as a guest host. Ryan certainly made his wife proud by becoming a Jeopardy champion.
Yes, here’s the recap of Lauren’s 2/19/2021 game