Final Jeopardy: Literary Characters (7-17-24)
Here are some more clues from the 7/17/2024 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.
U.S. PLACE NICKNAMES ($2000) “The Town Too Tough to Die”, Arizona (Note: they say the nickname in this show’s intro)
LE CINEMA ($400) The French title of this 2023 courtroom drama is “Anatomie d’une chute”
($800) These 2 words complete the title of a romance set in 18th century Brittany, “Portrait of a Lady…”
($1600) This actor won an Oscar for playing silent screen idol George Valentin in 2011’s “The Artist”
EDUCATION ($800) In the plain type of this, a $2 bunch of watercress costs $6; in the grade type, what was B- work earns an A-
3 CONSECUTIVE LETTERS ($1600) It’s the study of church songs like “Be Thou My Vision” & “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”
($2000) In medieval Italy this faction was pitted against the Guelphs & the pope
WORLD HISTORY ($400) At its completion a newspaper wrote, “The great continent of Africa is at length literally an island”
($1200) Harappa & Mohenjo-Daro were the first cities rediscovered from this ancient civilization on the Indian subcontinent
($1600) In May 1954 this battle by a small mountain outpost near Laos effectively ended the First Indochina War
($2000) It’s the rhyming, national nickname of Arminius, who defeated 3 Roman legions at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest
OPERA HEROINES ($800) Susanna, countess Rosina’s maid, is betrothed to this valet of Count Almaviva but, of course, there are complications
($1200) In a Puccini opera this tempestuous opera singer fights to save her lover, Mario Cavaradossi, from a sadistic police chief
($1600) As this Verdi opera ends, Violetta dies of consumption with her lover Alfredo Germont at her bedside
($2000) In order to rescue her husband Florestan from prison, Leonore disguises herself as this title man & gets a job there
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($200) Sarah Palin was one of the candidates to portray themselves as representing this hypothetical American who enjoys a half-dozen beers
($400) Due to its brevity, the third Arab-Israeli military conflict is known as this
($600) The World Series has seen dramatic game 6es, including in 2011 when this team saying goodbye to Albert Pujols beat Texas 10-9
($800) Less famous than 66, Route 6 was once the USA’s longest–3,652 miles from Long Beach, Calif. to Provincetown in this state
($1000) Soon after WWII the first production V6 engine was spearheaded by this Italian company whose name is Italian for “spear”
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The show’s been coming on late here because of the convention. 1030 last night. I dozed off during the long break before Final and woke up after the show had ended. Wouldn’t have known it anyway, although I saw the movie ages ago. Not sure if Jason will see this comment at this late time (there was no reply option), but “Garp” was written by John Irving, not John Updike.
Last two DDs were not difficult. “Town too tough to die” was a cinch. Study of church songs I figured out quickly without knowing the actual word. Knew the Indochina battle well. Other than the “Carmen” clue, the rest of the opera category was torture!
Howard, when there’s no reply option you can just go up to the reply link in the first post in that thread. Then your post will be in that line. I meant to fix that for Jason but I got sidetracked.
OK, thanks.
A tough final resulted another triple stumper.
Maybe, the 3rd time will be the charm for Jay Fisher to get Final Jeopardy! right.
Let’s hope they have categories more favorable to the contestants tomorrow.
I’ll second the motion VJ. I mean, I can hardly recall a Jeopardy game in which so many clues had stumped the contestants. To be fair, a good share of those clues weren’t easy either.
Sometimes I don’t even know what they’re talking about in some of these clues. Today, I couldn’t make sense of the clue about Africa being an island until Ken gave the answer.
Yesterday they had a weirdly written clue about painful memories where they threw in something about your childhood bully’s cologne. I got that one but it’s no wonder the contestants parsed it as having something to do with the cologne. For crying out loud, how many childhood bullies even wear cologne?
You know I’m on the same page, VJ!
1/3 on DD and, and missed FJ. I’ve never read anything by Updike, and never saw the film.
Jason–it was John Irving, not Updike.
Thank you for that. True story: I’ve never read either one! That’s why I don’t confuse Upton Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis – because I’ve read both!
For the second day in a row, FJ! stumped the whole panel. There were 21 triple stumpers in this game. As we learned last year, the most number of record of triple stumpers in one game is 24 back in 2005. Jay has been perfect in both Jeopardy and Double Jeopardy rounds without giving any incorrect responses but he was 0-2 in Final. There are only 7 games left of the season.