Seeing all the Feud games running around, I decided to create a different kind, one with the work front loaded instead of back loaded. Hope you have fun with this!
RULES:
READ THESE RULES BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!
DO NOT READ ANYONE ELSE’S POSTS UNTIL YOU CREATE YOUR OWN!
Below you will see a list of ten categories. You start EACH question with $10,000. For each question, bet any amount of that $10,000 you wish. List the bet amount by the question number.
For example, if you bet $5000 on question 1 and $7000 on question 2, you will end up with a total of $22,000 if you get them both right, and $8000 if you get them both wrong.
The next post has, in a spoiler box, the answers. Next to each appropriate bet amount, write the correct question. YOU MUST PHRASE YOUR RESPONSES IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION. This IS “Final Jeopardy,” after all.
So, your post will look like this:
Please keep extraneous comments and such to after your answer listings.
By participating in this game, you are warranting that you are not using Google, Wikipedia, or any other outside help to answer. This is for fun - there’s no reason to cheat!
After fifty responses or 36 hours from the time of this post, whichever comes first, I will tally everything. Whoever has the most money at the end of all ten Final Jeopardies wins!
Its subhead was “GOP Sweep Indicated in State; Boyle Leads in City”.
Of John Candy, Brent Spiner, Topher Grace, Vin Diesel, Eric Idle, and OJ Simpson, the only one to have never acted a film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
First called “coffins,” some claim that this food’s modern name is derived from a bird known for putting together a wide variety of bits and pieces.
According to legend, this animal was tricked out of a position in the Chinese Zodiac by an animal that did make it in, causing an enmity that lasts to this day.
This country’s flag depicts the bauhinia blakeana, meant as a symbol of unifying harmony.
This object’s name was coined from a popular song of the 1800’s, in which one “run ninety years without slumbering…”, “but it stopped short never to go again when the old man died.”
A member of Parliament and the 16th Earl of Derby, his name is most famous today as part of a contribution he made to a professional sport in 1892.
This first name was shared both by a brother of Tchaikovsky and a contemporary of Tchaikovsky, composer of “Pictures at an Exhibition” and a member of the famed Russian Five.
His creators based him partly on Porfiry Petrovich of Crime and Punishment, and on G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown.
This country is the smallest that causes Ethiopia to be landlocked.[/spoiler]
You rules are pretty unclear, but I’ll try as best as I understand them.
1)$10000, What was Dewey Beats Truman Headline?
2)$10000, Who is OJ Simpson?
3)$1000, What is a Casserole?
4) $10000, What is the Cat?
5) $1000, What is South Korea?
6) $10000, What is a Grandfather Clock?
7) $10000, What is the Stanley Cup?
8) $500, Who is Igor?
9) $0, Who is I have no f-ing clue?
10) $10000, What is Djibooty?
I’m not too sure that I understand the instructions either; unfortunately, I can’t blame it on alcohol … I do have the always popular “my poor aging brain …” answer to fall back on though. At any rate, here goes:
HEADLINES: $600 - What is “Dewey defeats Truman” ?
THE OSCARS: $400 - Who is Topher Grace?
FOOD AND DRINK: $200 - What is a submarine sandwich?
MYTHOLOGY: $200 - What is a bear?
ASIA: $800 - What is Hong Kong?
TERM ORIGINS: $800 - What is a grandfather clock?
BRITISH LORDS: $400 - Who is Lord Stanley? (of Stanley cup …)
Best feelings about #1 (just saw the picture of HST holding the paper in the “Think of a famous photo” thread) and #6.
Pretty confident about #5, #8, and #10 (if I ever get on Jeopardy!, I will be very tempted to bet it all if I’m given a chance to respond to an “African Geography” DD or FJ)
I figured the idea was to simulate the show as closely as possible – enter your wagers based on your relative knowledge of the respective categories, then read the answers and respond with the (hopefully) correct questions. I’ll be disappointed if the winner is someone who read the spoilered Post #2, and only then bet more on the material he/she knew, less on the total stabs in the dark.
