Saturday JEOPARDY

[luckytrim]

Saturday JEOPARDY

JEOPARDY- "MUM'S THE WORD
1. ($400)- This phrase for meaningless talk or nonsense is a corruption of an African spirit's name, Mama Dyumbo...
2. ($1200)- In 1934, Ernest Goopasture and C.D. Johnson isolated the virus that causes this disease of the parotid glands...
3. ($2000)- In 1995, the city of Bombay officially changed it's name to this Marathi pronunciation...

Double JEOPARDY- BASEBALL FIGURES
4.($800)- With the Yankees from 1923 to 1939, his #4 was the first number retired in either league...
5. ($2400)- He was known as baseball's "Mr. October"...
6. ($4000)- Famous nickname of Leon Goslin, who played in all nineteen of the Washington Senators World Series games...
Final JEOPARDY- HISPANIC AMERICANS
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American television's first Hispanic superstar was this bandleader...
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1. what is mumbo jumbo ?
2. what are the mumps ?
3. what is Mumbai ?
4. who is Lou Gehrig ?
5. who is Reggie Jackson ?
6. what is "Goose" ?
7. who is Desi Arnaz ?

[quicksilver]

Oh booooooooooo.

Only # 1 and FINAL and both were lucky guesses.

Thanks, l.t.

[buckytom]

i missed #6.

i knew the answer to question #4, but it was confusing.

ol' biscuit pants wore #4 for the jankees.

[luckytrim]

fIXED IT---
thx B.T.

[Barbara L]

I got all but the baseball ones (don't tell my husband I missed them! lol).

Barbara