Spoiler Talk: CotD (Mon)
Here’s Monday’s peek at the NY Times Clue of the Day. This clue may be today’s Final Jeopardy! If you know it (or even if you don’t), you can make a prediction on how many players will get it right and/or leave a hint on the right answer BEFORE 11:15 A.M. CENTRAL (And, yes, we are all aware that the results are sometimes put up earlier elsewhere, but we play fair here).
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Clue of the Day
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An Old Category: The name of this category was MIDDLE NAMES; it was in the first round of the match that aired on 6/8/1990.
$200: Keith Murdoch’s middle name; you may think it’s his first name
$400: Cereal manufacturer whose middle initial stood for Keith, not for “King of the Corn Flakes”
$600: Middle name shared by HUD Secretary Jack Kemp & former Attorney Gen. William Smith
$800 (DD: $3000): The middle name of the man for whom Washington, D.C.’s international airport is named
$1000: Middle name of 19th century poet James Lowell
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FRIDAY’S PREDICTIONS: No one predicted 0 players would get the America
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I didn’t come up with this in the allotted time… 1/3 correct answers.
The Dutch South American country is what I thought of, I skipped over the Caribbean entirely. I asked ChatGPT and another similar site, and they both got the correct response, but they attempted to show their reasoning, first listing what the four countries were. They both expressed repeated confusion trying to figure out what the fourth country could have been (the US), apparently unaware that English is not the official language, just de facto.
I’ll say 0/3.
Funny, I just came across the smallest South American country that fits this clue last week but they probably would have limited it to South America if it was there.
It seems like the most likely answer is the island country associated with voodoo and I’m guessing they’re looking for this one so I’ll say TWO will come up with that.
There’s an even smaller country that has no official language, but I can’t see the contestants being expected to even think of that one.