$2,000 Jeopardy! Clues (9/30-10/4/24)

We’re always looking at the clues the Jeopardy! contestants miss during the week. Let’s take a look at some of the clues they got for a change. These 10 clues are all from the $2,000 row during the week of 9/30 to 10/4/24:

(1) UP, UP & AWAY: Almost 4,000 of these bombers nicknamed the Superfortress were produced in the 1940s, but only 2 still fly today
(2) PUT SOME RESPECT ON MY NAME: Before she was appointed U.S. Attorney General, she received the Medal of Honor–from the Florida Bar Association
(3) 7-SYLLABLE WORDS: It’s the branch of medicine concerned with the distribution & control of diseases
(4) AVIAN POETRY: This American poet began his 1943 poem “Come In”, “As I came to the edge of the woods, thrush music–hark!”
(5) FILM-POURRI: This real-life couple starred as the bickering George & Martha in 1966’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

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(6) ON THE BUCKET LIST: Take a Ding Ding tram on Hong Kong Island, then stroll the Mong Kok District on this densely populated peninsula
(7) RELIGIOUS MATTERS: This Christian sect in Egypt chooses its pope by having a blindfolded young boy pick a name out of a glass chalice
(8) From Latin for “good” & “fate”, it’s an old-timey word for any innkeeper
(9) ON “FOOT”: 75,000 casualties among World War I British forces were attributed to this hitherto unknown condition
(10) Outlining some of his philosophical ideas, this German mathematician & rival of Newton published “Discourse on Metaphysics”

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You don’t have to reveal how many you missed unless you want to. 😁