Ha, I thought of him when I was typing my post. I’d love it if she really were trolling them!
I’ve never seen Hamilton and never intend to, but I lived on Manhattan for many years, even sailed around it several times. It’s definitely an island.
Jeopardy! clues don’t have to be “common knowledge.” I’m not the only person who has a CD of sackbut music.
The factoid I was speculating the Jeopardy writers presumed people would know from seeing Hamilton is the fact that a former Treasury Secretary is buried there, not the fact that it’s an island.
Bad-at-history guy checking in. From Hamilton I knew that AH was born in the Caribbean, so in playing along I promptly assumed his remains were buried back there and spent the 30 seconds trying to remember which Caribbean island that was. Seemed odd to me that other notables from the era would also be buried there but I thought that was cluing being offered.
So basically if any of the contestants had written Barbados or Aruba or something my reaction would have been ‘yeah, pretty good guess’, as opposed to the WTF? response the rest of you would have had.
I do recall the cemetery getting a mention in Hamilton upon being reminded of that by this thread, but it wasn’t a big takeaway for me since there was no song about it.
I’ve been to the graveyard at Trinity Church, but it was years ago. I hope I’d have gotten this FJ, but I missed the show that night so we’ll never know.
I knew that Alexander Hamilton was born on Nevis from visiting Nevis.
I knew AH died in a duel from Star Trek.
eta: and by who from the got milk? commercial.
Yeah, anytime “Aaron Burr” is the answer, I have to say it like I have a mouthful of peanut butter.
We were just talking about those damned dead kings!
The crazy thing is that, despite my frequent complaining about the impossibility of remembering monarchs, I actually got two out of those five: William the Conqueror, because he can be identified with something other than an ordinal number and it’s easy for me to recall 1066 and the Norman conquest of England, and Henry VIII, because there was a Herman’s Hermits song about him. And this may have been for me the repetition that the George who was king during the American Revolution was George III that will cause it to finally stick.
When it comes to numbered monarchs, I’m consistently one number off, even with the American Revolution one, and the French beheaded one.
I got two of the monarchs clues, but it was a different two.
“but George the Third still vowed he rule them till the end…”
And I vaguely remembered that King John took over while Richard the Lionheart was crusading as part of the Robin Hood legend. King John was also one of Shakespeare’s histories, although it’s not as well known as some others. I saw it performed in the back room of a bar, and they gave out cocktail toothpicks with British and French flags for the audience to wave during the battle scenes.
I even got Harding right for Final Jeopardy. I didn’t think I knew that, but apparently I do.
Did anyone else notice that there were two clues tonight for which the correct response was “who is Marlowe?”
I managed three of the English monarchs tonight: William the Conqueror, Henry VIII, and George III. But FJ totally stumped me. Glad I wasn’t playing for real.
I only know George III because of the film. The one they had to change the title lest Amercians wonder how they missed the two previous films, The Madness of King George, and the Madness of King George II (NOT electric boogaloo).
Followed by Song of the Mad King George, Love Finds Mad King George, and Madness of King George 6: King Georger.
One of the clues mentioned Richard the Lionhearted so I remembered John from the Robin Hood film starring Errol Flynn.
The only king I missed was probably the easiest – when the clue said “Reformation” I thought “Restoration” an would have said “Charles II”.
Don’t forget Madness: The New Beginning, and George v George: An American Tale
I got yesterday’s FJ correct, but it was more or less a semi-educated guess.
Category was 20th Century Presidents, and the clue was
“He won an election in which both he & his Democratic opponent were from Ohio & both were wealthy newspaper publishers.”
The answer is Warren G. Harding
I thought I remembered that he was from Ohio, so that was my guess. I had no idea that he was a newspaper publisher, and I certainly didn’t know who his opponent was.
I wasn’t even sure he was 20th Century, but it was still the best guess I had.