So anyway, here it is. Starting all the way back in 2015 with Season 32, I've included the 14 clues that polled at 25% or under. I used Mark's previous polls as a template and promptly went mad with power, introducing whatever changes suited my whim. If you don't like it, let that be a reminder to say thanks to Mark every so often. You can also complain to me and tell me to do things the old way. Who knows? I might listen.
From the list, pick up to three clues that you consider the toughest. (The first click on each category reveals the clue but the correct response remains hidden in a nested spoiler space.)
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FOREIGN PHRASES
This French phrase refers to part of the Order of the Holy Ghost; its knights became known for serving superb dinners
- Cordon Bleu
Players: 0/3, Boardies: 23/129 = 17.83%
10/6/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! REGULAR GAME
EUROPEAN AUTHORS
"To explain... Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt", he wrote in 1927
- Hermann Hesse
Players: 2/3, Boardies: 24/126 = 19.05%
11/11/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! TOC QUARTERFINAL GAME
ABBREVIATIONS
Its meaning as an individual product dates to 1977; its meaning as conforming to orthodox opinion dates to 1986
- PC
Players: 0/3, Boardies: 35/138 = 25.36%
11/13/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! TOC QUARTERFINAL GAME
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Famous mother of Pyrrha, who survived the great flood & with her husband repopulated the earth
- Pandora
Players: 0/3, Boardies: 31/138 = 22.46%
11/20/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! TOC FINAL GAME
PHILOSOPHERS
His last name means a type of burial place & in 1855 that's where he went
- (Søren) Kierkegaard (Danish for churchyard)
Players: 1/3 (Alex Jacob and Matt Jackson gave no answer and didn't need to), Boardies: 27/128 = 21.09%
11/24/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! REGULAR GAME
THE OSCARS
For films of 2005 through 2012, he received nominations for Best Picture, Director, Writing & Acting
- George Clooney
Players: 1/3, Boardies: 28/121 = 23.14%
12/17/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! REGULAR GAME
LANDMARKS
Jacques-Germain Soufflot, who designed this Paris landmark, was interred there 49 years after dying
- Pantheon
Players: 0/3, Boardies: 13/123 = 10.57%
1/14/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! REGULAR GAME
ADVENTURE LITERATURE
In Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, explorers enter an Icelandic volcano & emerge on this island off Sicily
- Stromboli
Players: 0/3, Boardies: 21/134 = 15.67%
2/18/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! REGULAR GAME
PEN NAMES
This children’s author considered using the anagrams Edgar Cuthwellis & Edgar U. C. Westhill for his pen name
- Lewis Carroll/Charles (Lutwidge) Dodgson
Players: 0/3, Boardies: 30/125 = 24.00%
2/29/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! REGULAR GAME
WORLD LEADERS
In 2006 a former llama herder became president of this country
- Bolivia
Players: 2/3, Boardies: 26/130 = 20.00%
3/9/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! REGULAR GAME
LITERARY GEOGRAPHY
Shelley subtitled a poem named for this famous geographic feature “lines written in the vale of Chamouni”
- Mont Blanc
Players: 0/3, Boardies: 28/124 = 22.58%
4/22/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! REGULAR GAME
19th CENTURY BRITS
In May 1810 during one of his more famous exploits, he employed the breaststroke
- Lord Byron
Players: 2/3, Boardies: 27/116 = 23.28%
5/5/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! TEACHER TOURNAMENT GAME
ISLANDS
The Spanish name of these islands is Islas de Sotavento; their French name is Iles Sous-le-Vent
- Leeward Islands
Players: 1/3, Boardies: 13/120 = 10.83%
7/28/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! REGULAR GAME
NAMES IN THE NEWS
This 52-year-old went through a temporary growth spurt, growing 2 inches in less than a year, as revealed by a 2016 physical
- Scott Kelly
Players: 1/3, Boardies: 16/111 = 14.41%