FJs for the 11/18/19 week
Posted: Sat Nov 23, 2019 7:49 pm
11/18 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
U.S. CITIES
11/18 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Celebrating electricity & technology, an exposition in this U.S. "City of Light" in 1901 was overshadowed by another major event
11/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
11/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Peaking at 9,000 locations in 2004, this chain of stores was down to one in 2019, located in Bend, Oregon
11/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
MOVIE & BOOK TITLES
11/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This title of a 1962 novel & 1975 film refers to the direction the last of 3 geese took in an old nursery rhyme
11/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AMERICAN HISTORY
11/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
One a Civil War hero & one a U.S. Senator, brothers with this last name were both considered for the 1884 Republican presidential nomination
11/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
HOME & GARDEN
11/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1847 eccentric horticulturalist Sir Charles Isham popularized these when he imported terra cotta ones from Nuremberg
Correct responses in spoiler box:
The players were 7/15 (46.67%) with a 1-2-2-0-2 success pattern.
BIOPICS $800: "La Vie en Rose" took a look at the not always rosy life of this French chanteuse
ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $1600: With room for 7,000 worshippers, Al Fateh Mosque in Manama, capital of this island kingdom, is the nation's largest
NEW TO THE OED $1600: This 2-word term for the spot from which conspiracy theorists think an unknown second gunman fired on JFK
Correct responses in spoiler box:
U.S. CITIES
11/18 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Celebrating electricity & technology, an exposition in this U.S. "City of Light" in 1901 was overshadowed by another major event
11/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
11/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Peaking at 9,000 locations in 2004, this chain of stores was down to one in 2019, located in Bend, Oregon
11/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
MOVIE & BOOK TITLES
11/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This title of a 1962 novel & 1975 film refers to the direction the last of 3 geese took in an old nursery rhyme
11/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AMERICAN HISTORY
11/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
One a Civil War hero & one a U.S. Senator, brothers with this last name were both considered for the 1884 Republican presidential nomination
11/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
HOME & GARDEN
11/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1847 eccentric horticulturalist Sir Charles Isham popularized these when he imported terra cotta ones from Nuremberg
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Buffalo
Blockbuster
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Sherman
garden gnomes
Blockbuster
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Sherman
garden gnomes
BIOPICS $800: "La Vie en Rose" took a look at the not always rosy life of this French chanteuse
ISLAND NATION CAPITAL CITIES $1600: With room for 7,000 worshippers, Al Fateh Mosque in Manama, capital of this island kingdom, is the nation's largest
NEW TO THE OED $1600: This 2-word term for the spot from which conspiracy theorists think an unknown second gunman fired on JFK
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Édith Piaf
Bahrain
grassy knoll
Bahrain
grassy knoll