Final Jeopardy: U.S. History (10-25-24)

Here are some more clues from the 10/25/2024 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.

AFTERNOON “T” ($800) Hit the slopes on a snowy afternoon & do this type of skiing named after a region in Norway

SEOUL ($1000) Seoul is considered a megacity whose environs include this port city, home to South Korea’s main airport

INTERNATIONAL SPACE HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES ($1200) This astrophysicist & Cornell professor won a Pulitzer for “The Dragons of Eden”, his book on the evolution of human intelligence

ART & ARTISTS ($1200) First exhibited in 1853, Rosa Bonheur’s masterpiece is “Le marché aux chevaux”, which translates to this Note: show

($1600) He wrote a poem that said, “My brush, above my face continually, makes it a splendid floor by dripping down”

QUICK! ($2000) This 2-word cornmeal-based dessert is made with molasses, sugar & spices

EUROPEAN LAKES & RIVERS ($800) Until the 15th century, Pisa was on the Ligurian Sea, but silt from this principal river of Tuscany left it 6 miles from shore

($1200) A bit east of Madrid, dams on this river form an artificial lake known as the Sea of Castile

THE WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE OR WHY OF READING ($1200) Bertrand Russell’s essay “Why I Am Not” this type of person does grant Jesus “a very high degree of moral goodness”, just not divinity

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: BOTANY
($200) Microscopic pores on leaves & stems called stomata allow the intake of this gas necessary for photosynthesis
($400) An extinct variety of this palm tree was brought back to life in 2005 from ancient seeds at Masada
($600) Until the 20th c., a drug derived from the bark of the cinchona tree was the only effective treatment for this tropical disease
($800) Apples & cherries are members of this family of plants named for a popular but less-eaten flower
($1000) Coffea canephora is the species of coffee plant normally classified by this “vigorous” name

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