TheProfessor wrote: ↑Sun Sep 18, 2022 11:18 pm
I would like to ask a question about Final Jeopardy! clues. Forgive me if this is the wrong place, but I want to ask this question; however, the discussion forum won't let me start a new topic yet.
I have been without television for a while; and, it's been a long time since I have watched Jeopardy (I use to watch regularly). Do Final Jeopardy clues ever consist of any of the following:
Nice! I made the right guess before cuing up the sound clip. Are there other possibilities? The only other rhyming pairs I can think of seem unlikely to impossible: Spoiler
Of this man's musical shortcomings, Oscar Levant complained "he can't count". Spoiler
Albert Einstein
Can you help me connect the dots on this one? I can't even find that quote by Googling, much less figure out how I was supposed to come up with the right response.
Of this man's musical shortcomings, Oscar Levant complained "he can't count". Spoiler
Albert Einstein
Can you help me connect the dots on this one? I can't even find that quote by Googling, much less figure out how I was supposed to come up with the right response.
Of this man's musical shortcomings, Oscar Levant complained "he can't count". Spoiler
Albert Einstein
Can you help me connect the dots on this one? I can't even find that quote by Googling, much less figure out how I was supposed to come up with the right response.
At a September 2022 concert, this chart-topping pop star played a crystal flute that had belonged to president James Madison Spoiler
Who is Lizzo? This is for the benefit of us oldies, for whom "Pop music" + flute = Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull. Lizzo is the most famous present day pop flautist.
I'm not sure Levant was joking, but yeah, Benny is a great guess.
I once planned and may possibly even have posted a different version of the clue. It mentioned that the musician in question was turned down by the Princeton Philharmonic. At this time, I felt that would have made it too easy.
A 1972 film starring Liza Minnelli features the songs "A Faraway Land", "That Feeling for Home", & ones named for these three 5-letter body parts Spoiler
What are brain, heart, & nerve? (in Journey Back to Oz)
A 1972 film starring Liza Minnelli features the songs "A Faraway Land", "That Feeling for Home", & ones named for these three 5-letter body parts Spoiler
What are brain, heart, & nerve? (in Journey Back to Oz)
A 1972 film starring Liza Minnelli features the songs "A Faraway Land", "That Feeling for Home", & ones named for these three 5-letter body parts Spoiler
What are brain, heart, & nerve? (in Journey Back to Oz)
A two-fer, inspired by the book Word Drops by Paul Anthony Jones
GROSS SHAKESPEARE
The word "puking" appears in this Shakespeare play Spoiler
What is "As You Like It"? It's found in the famous "All The World's A Stage" monologue. in which a child is described as "mewling and puking in the nurse's arms".
BOTANICAL NAME ORIGINS
Pliny the Elder named this flowering plant after its sword-shaped leaves Spoiler
What is gladiolus? It comes from the same root as "gladiator", which literally means "sword-fighter".
The first one is pretty good although a little hard because you would have to not only remember the speech but what play it's in. A ToC finals-level clue at the least.
The fact underlying the second one is somewhat chestnutty, with, I would guess, somewhere between a half-dozen and a dozen Archive references already.