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Showing posts with label July 2017. Show all posts
Showing posts with label July 2017. Show all posts

Friday, August 4, 2017

Final Jeopardy July 2017 Summary


Final Jeopardy Category:

20th Century Transportation

Final Jeopardy Clue:
The first of these to enter service was christened by First Lady Pat Nixon at Dulles Intl. Airport on January 15, 1970

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Boeing 747


Final Jeopardy Category:

Classic Children’s Literature

Final Jeopardy Clue:

A 2016 biography of a children’s author is titled “In the Great Green Room”, a line from this classic book

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Goodnight, Moon

July 5, 2017

Final Jeopardy Category:

Small Countries

Final Jeopardy Clue:

This tiny island nation 700 miles northeast of Madagascar makes a great addition to a classic tongue twister

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
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Seychelles

July 6, 2017

Final Jeopardy Category:

Sports Traditions

Final Jeopardy Clue:

Since 1986, reaching the quarterfinals of this event has entitled you to free tickets & free tea for life


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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Wimbledon


Final Jeopardy Category:

Peoples of the World

Final Jeopardy Clue:

Living from Norway to Russia, they’ve been called the only indigenous people of the European Union

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Lapps / Sami


Final Jeopardy Category:

The Human Body

Final Jeopardy Clue:

Often considered appealing, these features are a genetic defect of the zygomaticus muscles of the face

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Dimples


Final Jeopardy Category:

Land-Locked Countries

Final Jeopardy Clue:

One in Europe & one in Africa, these 2 landlocked countries start with the same 2 letters & end with the same 4

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Switzerland
Swaziland


Final Jeopardy Category:

World Leaders

Final Jeopardy Clue:

A landmark 1957 N.Y. Times story called him “a powerful six-footer, olive-skinned…with a straggly beard”

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Fidel Castro

Final Jeopardy Category:

Academy Awards

Final Jeopardy Clue:

He holds the record for time between acting nominations for the same role, 39 years between 1976 & 2015 films

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Sylvester Stallone



Final Jeopardy Category:

Contemporary American Authors

Final Jeopardy Clue:

This Pulitzer winner changed his first name to that of an Irish king, avoiding associations with a famous ventriloquist’s dummy

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Cormac McCarthy


Final Jeopardy Category:

Deadly Creatures

Final Jeopardy Clue:

The National Ocean Service says one lethal type of this bone-free creature is the most venomous marine animal

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Jelly Fish


Final Jeopardy Category:

Twentieth Century Famous Names

Final Jeopardy Clue:

In a 1905 diary entry, Nicholas II wrote of this man, “we have made the acquaintance of a man of God”

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Rasputin



Final Jeopardy Category:

Historic Events

Final Jeopardy Clue:

In June 1986 a bakers union expressed regret for a disaster in this European city 320 years before

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

London
(the great fire of London 1666)


Final Jeopardy Category:

State Capitals

Final Jeopardy Clue:

In 1932 a 4,700-pound piece of the object that gave this capital its “small” name was moved to City Hall

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Little Rock, Arkansas


Final Jeopardy Category:

Americana

Final Jeopardy Clue:

This official U.S. government song traces its roots to a song about Roderick Dhu, the leader of a Highland clan


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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Hail to the Chief


Final Jeopardy Category:

Colleges

Final Jeopardy Clue:

When this school opened in 1845, the curriculum for the class of 50 had math & navigation, chemistry & gunnery & steam

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

US Naval Academy


Final Jeopardy Category:

Europe

Final Jeopardy Clue:

Once a feudal state, it has the highest capital city in Europe at an elevation of about 3,300 feet

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Andorra


Final Jeopardy Category:

Novels

Final Jeopardy Clue:
A man can be destroyed but not defeated is a line from this 1952 book, later a Spencer Tracy film

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway


Final Jeopardy Category:

The Oscars

Final Jeopardy Clue:

This Brit is the only actor to get Oscar nominations for playing 2 real-life U.S. presidents, both for 1990s films


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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Anthony Hopkins


Final Jeopardy Category:

21st Century Thought

Final Jeopardy Clue:

The title subject of a 2007 bestseller, it was discovered in Australia where today it’s a state emblem

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Black Swan

July 31, 2017

Final Jeopardy Category:

Americana

Final Jeopardy Clue:

It was constructed in the Paris foundry of Gaget, Gauthier & Co. from 1875 to 1884

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:


The Statue of Liberty