Final Jeopardy: Famous Names (1-23-20)

Here are 6 more triple stumpers from the 1/23/2020 Jeopardy! game:

THE COUNTY LINE ($800) Known for a very big bang, this county in New Mexico was organized from parts of Santa Fe & Sandoval counties in 1949

THE OPERATING THEATER ($800) 5-letter type of nurse who keeps the surgical team sterile & helps with their gloves & gowns

GET YOUR “B.A.” DEGREE ($1600) This prehistoric period began around the 4th Millenium B.C.

($2000) An island group of the Western Pacific held by Germany until WWI, it bears the name of a German Chancellor

NATIONAL COATS OF ARMS ($2000) The coat of arms of this nation of islands off Africa’s east coast has only one shell down by the seashore, & it’s a turtle

PROVERBIALLY YOURS ($1200) “Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus” means “without food and wine” this, represented by Venus, “grows cold”

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — ENTERING THE LANGUAGE:
($200) 1845, in the Knickerbocker Magazine: this 2-word possessive synonym for January 1
($400) From@stoweboyd on twitter.com August 25, 2007: this ubiquitous social media word derived from a keyboard symbol
($600) 1125, in the “Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”: this word for an assembly that now often follows “city”
($800) 1738: this 2-word term for low-powered binoculars you might take to a performance of “Aida”
($1000) 1934, from an L.A. Times piece about a “Lonely Wives Party”: this rhyming 2-word term for a female buddy

ANSWERS show

($200) New Year’s
($400) hashtag
($600) council
($800) opera glasses
($1000) gal pal

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