Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Transportation (11-15-24)

Here are some more clues from the 11/15/2024 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.

THIS AMERICAN WIFE ($400) Glenbach is (well, could be) shorthand for Glennon Doyle & this wife, a retired soccer star

($600) After marrying Elliot in 1938, this inventor had 2 kids, Barbara & Ken, who were not thrilled being mom’s inspiration

TOOLING UP ($800) This 3-letter tool makes small holes in wood… get our point?

LAST LINES OF BOOKS ($1000) A 5-word title: “In that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his bear will always be playing”

ANIMALS OF THE AMAZON ($1600) This piglike mammal has a prehensile snout that it uses to grab leaves while foraging & as a snorkel while swimming

SCULPTORS ($400) He was born Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi in Florence & his works there include “St. Louis of Toulouse”

($800) In 1993 this Asian-American architect crafted a sculpture celebrating women’s co-education at Yale, her alma mater

($2000) This alliterative muse of Auguste Rodin found fame as a sculptor in her own right

“M”ISCELLANY ($800) The aptly named Samantha Bond played this personal assistant in the films “GoldenEye” & “Die Another Day”

($2000) The name of this swift & dangerous current in the Arctic Ocean has come to be used for a large, fatal whirlpool

4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY ($1200) This city in Lombardy at the tip of a lake with the same name has a museum dedicated to silk

The players missed 4 clues in FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES:
($400) In Chinese slang, xue ba is a studious bookworm but with more respectful overtones than this English equivalent out of Dr. Seuss
($800) In Yiddish a shande is this, also a TV show created by a Shonda, & a shande far di goyim is one in front of the whole world
($1200) At an office in the Netherlands, be prepared for the pleasant custom of vrijmibo, or group drinks at this point in the week
($1600) In cycling, être en chasse-patate, “to hunt a potato”, is to be lost after getting ahead of this group meaning “small ball”
($2000) In the early 1700s the fate of Spain was decided by what its people call this word “de Sucesión Española”

FOREIGN WORDS ANSWERS show