Final Jeopardy: Space (1-10-24)

Here are some more clues from the 1/10/2024 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.

WORD HISTORIES ($400) Once it meant cunning or ingenuity; now it’s a motor

($1200) An adjective meaning gigantic, it came into English in the 1700s to describe huge elephant-like bones found in Siberia

($2000) This synonym for jeans comes from the name of a blue cloth that originated in India

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ($2000) In 2023, China gathered friendly world leaders for the 10th anniversary of BRI, this initiative of projects in the developing world

WORLD OF FIRST NAMES ($2000) This French version of a girls’ name important in the New Testament is also given to boys, like the Marquis de Lafayette

ONE MAN, BANNED ($800) Dante was truly a Guelf on the shelf as his exile from this city of his birth would prove

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Sneak Peek clues — NATIONAL ANIMALS
($200) The Inagua wilderness of the Bahamas holds some 50,000 of these long-legged scarlet avians, the national bird
($400) Denmark has a national this, the small tortoiseshell; with a 2-inch wingspan, it starts visiting flowers in early spring
($600) This big mammal is the national animal of Bangladesh, & please be specific
($800) Canada’s national horse is the Canadian horse; think a little harder to name this, a national symbol since 1975
($1000) It’s the national bird of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia & Ecuador

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show