Final Jeopardy: USA (1-9-23)

Here are some more clues from the 1/9/2023 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.

LAUNDRY DAY ($800) Concerns of the 1950s included segregation, fear of nuclear war & itchy, stiff clothes; in 1961 this brand came out to address one

WON THE BATTLE, LOST THE WAR ($400) Velazquez’ “Surrender of Breda” shows a win for this country in its long war to prevent Dutch independence

($800) The British won the 1776 battle of the Manhattan fort named for this foe, who’d laugh last 7 years later

ALL THE RIGHT MOVIES ($800) John Lindqvist’s novel “Let the Right One In”, about Eli, who is one of these creatures, was made into Swedish & American films

BUILDINGS & BRIDGES ($400) The Leaning Tower of Pisa is actually a bell tower, this in Italian

SOLVE THE MYSTERY TITLE ($400) A Philip Marlowe novel: “The Big” this

REMEMBER YOUR PHRASE-ING ($2000) This phrase is an allusion to a fable in which a canine selfishly prevents an ox from eating some hay

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Sneak Peek clues — RANDOM FACTS
($400) Seen here in a satellite image, it wasn’t always icy and dinosaurs lived there
($800) The website called ask.com was formerly known as ask ths guy, named for a literary valet
($1200) Just like magic, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker & Kathy Najimy were back for this movie “2”, 3 decades after the original($1600) A type of blackberry, marionberries ar grown primarily in this Northwest state & are named for a county theret
($2000) When he was VP of the U.S., a Colorado town bore his name; when he became a Confederate general, it changed its “kin” to “ken”

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