Final Jeopardy: Global Geology (10-5-23)

Here are some more clues from the 10/5/2023 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.

I HAVE A PREPOSITION FOR YOU ($1000) You “go” this “to get” this to make a social situation go smoothly

MADEIRA ($200) In addition to its famous wine, Madeira farmers grow a dwarf species of this tropical fruit of the genus Musa

($800) Madeira wine is fortified with this spirit to raise the alcohol content to about 20%

I DON’T GIVE A… ($1000) Unit of weight; it’s equal to 3.89 grams

EX-SOVIET REPUBLICS ($2000) Following the independence of Belarus in 1991, its capital Minsk became the headquarters of this organization, C.I.S.

NUN BUT THE BRAVE ($800) In 1831 Catherine McAuley founded the Sister of Mercy in this world capital to care for the poor & destitute

ARCHITECTURE TERMS ($800) The Philadelphia Museum of Art was designed as a vast temple in this style, inspired by antiquity

($2000) The construction technique of vertical posts & crosspieces is called “post & lintel” or “post &” this

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

Sneak Peek clues — MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES
($200) Rocky Balboa has begun training Adonis Johnson; will Adonis have the eye of the tiger? That’s up next in sports
($400) A crime novelist, dead in his mansion under mysterious circumstances. Benoit Blanc, on the case. Eyewitness news starts now
($600) 2 musicians dressed like undertaers led police on a wild chase through Chicago. Their car, & many others, did not survive the trip
($800) A young man from Mumbai won big on a game show tonight; the winning final answer? Aramis, from “The Three Musketeers”!
($1000) An APB is out for a man who escaped a southern chain gang; authorities noted the man’s amazing blue eyes & “failure to communicate”

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show