Final Jeopardy: The Ancient World (1-9-24)

Here are some more clues from the 1/9/2024 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.

“F” IN GEOGRAPHY ($400) Espoo & Lappeenranta are cities in this nation

A RECIPE FOR… ($600) To make this traditional one-word Mexican breakfast, combine fried tortillas with salsa & top with queso fresco

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS’ OCCUPATIONS ($1600) Harry Bosch’s half-brother Mickey Haller

($2000) Martin Dysart in “Equus”

U.S. NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS ($2000) His name is on a pact with Aristide Briand, but Aristide had won a Nobel prize a few years before, so he got the 1929 prize alone

4-LETTER FISH( $1600) Dory could tell you that surgeon fish is another name for this blue fish, whose natural habitat is coral reefs

WATERLOGGED WORDS ($2000) This word for totally submerged has a huge body of water in the middle of it

The players missed these 3 clues in SPORTS TAKES:
($400) Stephen A. Smith & Molly Qerim talk sports & more on this ESPN show
($800) The NHL has a penalty for taking this to try to get your team a power play; the rules also it “embellishment”
($1000) An unwritten rule of baseball is to take (not swing) on this count, especially if your team has a big lead

SPORTS TAKES ANSWERS: show

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

Sneak Peek clues — 3 OF THE SAME LETTER
($200) To thumb a ride
($400) Creepy, like an unsettling coincidence
($600) Less common, or less well-done
($800) Derived from an initialism, it means to act as host for an entertainment event
($1000) A 7-letter cure for everything

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show