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Fall River, Rhode Island and Ethan Allen: Three Local Clues in One 'Jeopardy!' Episode
Our corner of New England was well-represented on Jeopardy! Wednesday night, as three different clues pertained to Massachusetts and Rhode Island – including one about Fall River’s most infamous resident.
It’s not uncommon for either the Bay State or the Ocean State to be part of a Jeopardy! clue, but it’s hard to remember an episode in which both were featured so prominently as they were on December 18.
In the first round, the category “That’s Weird” had a clue that was definitely an easy one for any person on the SouthCoast.
Host Ken Jennings read, “The Weird U.S. Travel Guide includes such sights as the Fall River, Massachusetts house of this accused murderess,” and an image very similar to this one appeared on the board:
Contestant Ashley had the correct answer: Lizzie Borden.
The Double Jeopardy round had the category “D.C.’s Statuary Hall” with two locally-themed clues.
The $1200 clue was: “Vermont has a statue of him, despite or maybe in part because of the fact he was run out of towns in Massachusetts and Connecticut.”
Ashley guessed wrong on that one, answering “Who is Benedict Arnold?” The correct answer was Ethan Allen. Obviously, Ashley never bought furniture in New England, at least not from an Ethan Allen store. Maybe from an Ashley Furniture store, though.
Rhode Island got in on the fun with the $1600 clue from the same category.
The clue was, “Rhode Island honors Nathanael Greene and this man, which seems the least the state could do, as he founded the original colony.”
Do you know it? Here’s a hint: there is both a zoo and a university named after him.
“Who is Roger Williams?”
A Real SouthCoast Native Would Know the Answers to These Jeopardy Questions
It was always so interesting to hear about episodes where the gameshow participants on Jeopardy answered questions about our little corner of the world. The fact that New Bedford and Fall River have been collectively mentioned approximately 30 times since 1988 is astounding.
We chose a few of our favorite questions and listed them below for our audience to work through. Let’s see how many of these questions you can answer correctly. Tell us how many you got without looking at the answer.
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