July 3, 2017
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
July 4, 2017
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
July 7, 2017
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
July 10, 2017
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
July 11, 2017
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
July 12, 2017
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
July 13, 2017
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
July 14, 2017
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
July 17, 2017
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
July 18, 2017
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
July 19, 2017
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)
July 20, 2017
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
July 21, 2017
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
July 24, 2017
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
July 25, 2017
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
July 26, 2017
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
July 27, 2017
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
July 28, 2017
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
Nathaniel Mauger 