12 Jeopardy! Clues July 10, 2019
Here are 2 categories from the 7-10-2019 Jeopardy! match.
The players got all these clues in LITERATURE:
($200) In 1850 he pitched his publisher a romance based on legends from southern sperm whale fisheries
($400) George Orwell based Room 101 in “1984” on a real boardroom at this broadcast network where he spent many a long meeting
($600) The name of this Moliere character was based on a word for “truffle”
($800) Stephen Crane’s “War Memories” were not about the Civil War but this later war, including the taking of Guantanamo Bay
($1000) Mentor Ezra Pound convinced this poet to cut half of “The Waste Land”
ANSWERS: show
The players got all the clues in NEVER WON AN EMMY, except the last one (*):
($400) It was “Sorry, They Wrote” for this British woman, a 17-time nominee in the ’80s, ’90s & 2000s
($800) “The Honeymooners” was a TV groundbreaker, but this creator & star never basked in Emmy glory
($1200) “Kojak” was up for best TV drama twice but lost both times to this British PBS show about the upper & lower classes
($1600) A long career including the iconic role of this hillbilly never brought Buddy Ebsen an Emmy
*($2000) Hugh Laurie’s 0 for 10 Emmy score inclues noms for “House” & this AMC series about arms dealers
ANSWERS show
Two more triple stumpers:
ANCIENT EGYPT ($2000) Here’s an example (image) of an ancient Egyptian blessing written in hieroglyphics. It shows us “ankh, wedja, seneb” translated as this, “prosperity, health”
THE BODY PART WITHIN: ($1600) We’ll go out on a limb & say it’s another term for a parable
On that last one, Margaret responded with “legend.” As you will see, on Thesaurus.com, it is listed as a synonym for parable. It has the same body part as the word that Alex gave as the correct response (starts with “a”)
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