Jeopardy First Edition -- Game #15

 Hi friends!

After a small break, it's time once again for Jeopardy!, First Edition. The post covers game #15 of the series, posted about 2 months ago (with an incorrect title--Sorry!). As in previous posts, my goal is to share what I've learned about the clues in this game.

Notes are in the order they appear in the original video, which you can find here.

Wikipedia is my primary source for much of this material (so take that with a grain of salt).

Jeopardy! Round

Categories: Dangerous Beasts, Islands, Material Evidence, Goddess, Frosty Flicks, Take a Chance

• Beasts ($200): Some interesting facts about this clue. Technically, vampire bats are found in Central and South America, and two extinct versions of the vampire bat lived in North America. Also, the word "true" in the clue is important, as there is such a thing as a "false" vampire bat. The ghost bat of Australia is also known as the Australian false vampire bat. Vampire bats feast on the blood of their prey.
• Frosty Flicks ($100): Easily my worst category in the series so far! Iceman was a 1984 film that earned $7.3 million at the box office (though the budget was $10 million). Still, Roger Ebert gave it a glowing, 4-star review. Not to be confused with the Mega Man robot master of the same name. Also not to be confused with Encino Man, the Pauly Shore movie from 1992 about a cave man.
• Islands ($300): Brooklyn and Queens are on Long Island. Staten Island is, well, obvious. Manhattan is separated from the mainland, where the Bronx is located.
• Islands ($500): Formosa was the Portuguese name of Taiwan. Taipei is the capital of Taiwan. Macao is a completely different island that the Portuguese maintained as a colony until 1999.
• Beasts ($400): The correct answer is the tsetse fly; they look very different from mosquitos!
• Material Evidence ($300): She played Velvet Brown in the movie National Velvet.
• Goddess ($500): I was close. Jupiter is a Roman god, so Juno is the correct answer. I was thinking of the Greek gods; Jupiter's equivalent is Zeus, and Juno's equivalent is Hera.
• Frosty Flicks ($300): Malificent is in Sleeping Beauty, but I have no idea how that fits the category. Is Malificent just a frosty villain?

Double Jeopardy! Round

Categories: The '50's, "Grand" Places, The Irish, Fish, Tennis Anyone, "Nuts" to You

• Tennis Anyone ($1000): As best as I can tell, Australia has always been a tennis powerhouse. They've hosted the predecessor of the Australian Open since 1905, it became a major in 1924, and it became an Open in 1968. After 1959, Australia would continue to appear in the finals until 1968--a thirty-year streak. The Davis Cup was named after a prominent tennis player Dwight F. Davis, who help to start up the tournament in its current format.
• "Grand" Places ($800): There are multiple Grand Tetons in the mountain range, but the biggest is called "Grand Teton".
• The Irish ($400): The significance of the stone dates back to the 14th and 15th centuries, though regular folk kissing the Blarney Stone can be traced to at least the 1800's. No consensus as to why people started doing this, however.
• The '50's ($600): I was close on this one. Martin and Lewis did split 1956, "ten years to the day" that they became a comedy team. They would appear on television together sparingly until 1976, when Frank Sinatra surprised Jerry Lewis on his Labor Day Telethon by bring out Dean Martin. They talked every day after that moment. Abbott and Costello had a tough working relationship from about 1945 to 1957, when they split apart. Costello would die in 1959, and while Abbott tried to start another comedy team, he was up-front that he just couldn't do it with Costello.
• The '50's ($1000): The Rosenbergs were accused of espionage and treason, and were the only American civilians sentenced to death for that crime during the Cold War. Julius Rosenberg was an electrical engineer who worked for the Army Signal Corps during World War II. It didn't help that he was a student leader in the Young Communist League USA while in college.
• The Irish ($800): I'll try to keep this clean, but the earliest published version of a "There once was a man from Nantucket" limerick was in the September 1879 issue of The Pearl, a...ribald piece of text-based erotica published in 1879 and 1880. (That link is NSFW, by the way, due to colorful language.) A much more explicit poem appeared in the 1927 book Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and Other Humorous Verses and Doggerel. It's in the public domain and can be found on the Internet Archive (also very NSFW due to language).

What other facts and trivia did I miss? Let me know in the comments, and stay tuned for the next game!