Clue Watch: Alexander Hamilton and His Letters

This “OED, from Poise to Quelt” category was the last one played in the second round of the 2/9/2017 Jeopardy! match. The current champ Kirstin Cutts, a graduate student from Austin, Texas, ran this one, taking over the lead going into Final Jeopardy! The answers are in the spoiler below since the OED is a subscription service.

($400) “A period (orig. of forty days) during which persons who might serve to spread a contagious disease are kept isolated”

($800) “Situated behind” or “the hinder part or back side”

($1200) Daily Double – on the recap

($1600) “Condensation and deposition of moisture… esp. in the formation of dew, rain”

($2000) “To drink (liquor) copiously”

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By the way, does anybody know what “quelt” means?