Final Jeopardy: The 1500s (10-3-23)

Here are some more clues from the 10/3/2023 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.

THIS IS MY COUNTRY ($600) 1999-2008–Thabo Mbeki

WEAVE GOT SEWING CLUES ($1600) In myth, this woman bought time by unweaving a burial shroud meant for her husband’s father, Laetres

($2000) This word from heraldry is also the name of a simple stitch consisting of repeating V shapes

THE CONGO RIVER ($1600) The river’s basin supports the second largest rainforest on Earth, home to the Dryas monkey & this so-called pygmy chimpanzee

MEN OF MICHIGAN ($2000) Tragically, this Grand Rapids man lost his life in an Apollo 1 training exercise along with Gus Grissom & Ed White

4, 4 ($400) The Oxford English Dictionary has this synonym for a tie going back to a 1796 horse race

($1200) One of these is to keep a bar of scented soap in with your dirty laundry when you travel to help clothes smell clean

($1600) The Nobel Banquet is held in Stockholm in this room that can hold 1,300 guest

($2000) This situation means one negative consequence leads to another; Jim Collins popularized the term in his book “Good to Great”

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Sneak Peek clues — NAME: THE CLASSIC SONG
($200) “I wish that I had” his “girl…where can I find a woman like that?”
($400) “What’s the frequency”, this guy? “Is your Benzedrine, uh huh, I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed”
($600) “You in that dress, my thoughts I confess, verge on dirty, come on” her; may we add “toora loora toora loo-rye-ay”
($800) “Help Me” this woman whose name repeats 13 times in the chorus, “Help Me…get her out of my heart”
($1000) “Ooh my little pretty one, pretty one, when you gonna give some time”, this woman? “M-m-m-my” this woman

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show