As noted previously, Jeopardy! hasn’t been piling on the Hammett clews as in the Days of Yore — when Alex Trebek was at the stick.
But yesterday S39 E134 for March 16 in the first round they finally eased another one in.
Category: Love, In So Many Words.
$1000 slot.
Statement:
You can detect this novelist, “Nora said: ‘I love you, Nicky, because you smell nice & know such fascinating people.'”
None of the contestants pressed a buzzer or uttered a word.
Host Ken Jennings sketched in the info: “That’s Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man, by Dashiell Hammett.”
Come on, how many things in life or culture run under the banner Nick & Nora?
