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Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 3:52 pm
by mas3cf
THE BILLBOARD HOT 100

The titles of Top 10 hits in 1964 and 1978 contained the names of adjacent neighborhoods of this coastal city.
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What is Rio de Janeiro? ("The Girl From Ipanema", "Copacabana")

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 5:11 pm
by opusthepenguin
mas3cf wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 3:52 pm THE BILLBOARD HOT 100

The titles of Top 10 hits in 1964 and 1978 contained the names of adjacent neighborhoods of this coastal city.
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What is Rio de Janeiro? ("The Girl From Ipanema", "Copacabana")
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Except for a brief trip to Canada, my thinking never left the United States. I spent way too much time trying to decide if Los Angeles is coastal. I guess the part around the airport is. Given the correct response, I probably still wouldn't have been able to name both songs. Maybe not even one of them.

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:59 pm
by MattKnowles
mas3cf wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 3:52 pm THE BILLBOARD HOT 100

The titles of Top 10 hits in 1964 and 1978 contained the names of adjacent neighborhoods of this coastal city.
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What is Rio de Janeiro? ("The Girl From Ipanema", "Copacabana")
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I got it but almost went in the wrong direction because of the lyric "The hottest spot north of Havana."

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 9:09 pm
by econgator
MattKnowles wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:59 pm
mas3cf wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 3:52 pm THE BILLBOARD HOT 100

The titles of Top 10 hits in 1964 and 1978 contained the names of adjacent neighborhoods of this coastal city.
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What is Rio de Janeiro? ("The Girl From Ipanema", "Copacabana")
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I got it but almost went in the wrong direction because of the lyric "The hottest spot north of Havana."
The lyrics of Copacabana refer to the nightclub in NYC, not the hotel in Rio, which is why you have that line.

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:49 pm
by trainman
opusthepenguin wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 5:11 pm
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I spent way too much time trying to decide if Los Angeles is coastal. I guess the part around the airport is.
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Here's a map of City of Los Angeles neighborhoods for reference. Only four are on the Pacific coast: Pacific Palisades, Venice, Playa Del Rey, and San Pedro. (Other coastal areas shown on the map are either separate independent cities or unincorporated areas.)

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Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:54 pm
by triviawayne
trainman wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:49 pm
opusthepenguin wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 5:11 pm
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I spent way too much time trying to decide if Los Angeles is coastal. I guess the part around the airport is.
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Here's a map of City of Los Angeles neighborhoods for reference. Only four are on the Pacific coast: Pacific Palisades, Venice, Playa Del Rey, and San Pedro. (Other coastal areas shown on the map are either separate independent cities or unincorporated areas.)


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72 suburbs in search of a city

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:16 pm
by opusthepenguin
trainman wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:49 pm
Los Angeles Neighborhood Map
Here's a map of City of Los Angeles neighborhoods for reference. Only four are on the Pacific coast: Pacific Palisades, Venice, Playa Del Rey, and San Pedro. (Other coastal areas shown on the map are either separate independent cities or unincorporated areas.)

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That's a great map. I don't think I realized Venice was part of L.A. And I definitely didn't know that San Pedro and Wilmington were!

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 1:03 am
by trainman
opusthepenguin wrote: Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:16 pm That's a great map. I don't think I realized Venice was part of L.A. And I definitely didn't know that San Pedro and Wilmington were!
I've been to the Venice branch of the Los Angeles (city) Public Library. I have not been to the San Pedro or Wilmington branches, which are the two farthest from where I live (they're the two farthest from much of the population of the city of Los Angeles!).

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 10:38 am
by alietr
It's like Elbridge Gerry put it together.

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2020 10:08 pm
by mas3cf
HISTORY OF U.S. GEOGRAPHY

If not for a 19th-century farmer convincing Congress to alter a proposed border, these four states would meet at a Four Corners.
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What are MO, AR, KY, and TN? (The original proposal for Missouri's borders was to continue the 36°30' KY/TN border westward as the MO/AR border. A local farmer by the name of John Hardeman Walker successfully lobbied Congress to let him live in Missouri, hence the Bootheel.)

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:29 am
by mas3cf
EUROPEAN CITIES

One of the largest and most important 14th-century Gothic buildings in Europe is in this small city of about 92,000 inhabitants.
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What is Avignon?

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:40 am
by boson
mas3cf wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2020 9:29 am EUROPEAN CITIES

One of the largest and most important 14th-century Gothic buildings in Europe is in this small city of about 92,000 inhabitants.
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What is Avignon?
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Chartres - my first guess - has 25,000 people and the cathedral there is 13th century, so obvious negbait. Places like Canterbury or Rheims are also negbait. This site https://interestingengineering.com/the- ... -the-world suggests there are dozens of places which might satisfy the answer, if you can't remember populations of cities to the thousands accuracy.

Maybe another clue to pin it? Something about it being home to the pope?

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:42 pm
by mas3cf
I've taken the triple stumper from Episode 2 and given it a twist:

THE CALENDAR

Date on which the 20th century BC began
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What is January 1, 2000 BC?

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:11 pm
by econgator
mas3cf wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:42 pm I've taken the triple stumper from Episode 2 and given it a twist:

THE CALENDAR

Date on which the 20th century BC began
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What is January 1, 2000 BC?
Probably would have been March 1, actually (January didn't exist in 2000 BC).

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:22 pm
by MattKnowles
econgator wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:11 pm
mas3cf wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:42 pm I've taken the triple stumper from Episode 2 and given it a twist:

THE CALENDAR

Date on which the 20th century BC began
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What is January 1, 2000 BC?
Probably would have been March 1, actually (January didn't exist in 2000 BC).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia ... %20decree.

Ooh, sorry. We were going for "𒌚𒀊 01, 2000 BC".

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:49 am
by mas3cf
econgator wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:11 pm
mas3cf wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:42 pm I've taken the triple stumper from Episode 2 and given it a twist:

THE CALENDAR

Date on which the 20th century BC began
Spoiler
What is January 1, 2000 BC?
Probably would have been March 1, actually (January didn't exist in 2000 BC).
BC also didn't exist in 2000 BC. :lol:

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:38 pm
by opusthepenguin
mas3cf wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:49 am
econgator wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:11 pm
mas3cf wrote: Wed Jul 22, 2020 10:42 pm I've taken the triple stumper from Episode 2 and given it a twist:

THE CALENDAR

Date on which the 20th century BC began
Spoiler
What is January 1, 2000 BC?
Probably would have been March 1, actually (January didn't exist in 2000 BC).
BC also didn't exist in 2000 BC. :lol:
But Blondie and Beetle Bailey did. They've been around forever.

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:11 pm
by DBear
Here's one that may come up in the 38th season:

HOCKEY

Name three of the four NHL teams whose names do not end in 's'
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Colorado Avalanche, Minnesota Wild, Tampa Bay Lightning aaaand... Seattle Kraken

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:30 pm
by opusthepenguin
DBear wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2020 7:11 pm Here's one that may come up in the 38th season:

HOCKEY

Name three of the four NHL teams whose names do not end in 's'
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Colorado Avalanche, Minnesota Wild, Tampa Bay Lightning aaaand... Seattle Kraken
Cool now do the same for the NBA.
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Jazz. Magic. Heat. Who else?
Anything like that in MLB or NFL?

Re: Final Jeopardy! Clues

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:43 pm
by Bamaman
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White Sox Red Sox