Final Jeopardy: American Women (11-18-24)

Here are some more clues from the 11/18/2024 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.

JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD ($600) When Democrats larded vital bills with riders curbing voting rights, JAG got Pres. Hayes to stand firm & stop the first govt. this

($800) Jim traveled west to the Bitterroot Valley in this not-yet-state & used a forged signature to move the Salish to a reservation

A TURN OF LATIN PHRASE ($400) The motto of the University of North Dakota is the snappy Lux et this, “Light & Law”

BLACK ($1000) A Muslim object of veneration, the Black Stone of Mecca is built into a wall of this small shrine within the Great Mosque

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD ($800) This Eastern European country’s 2-letter Internet code is .by

TOUGH 9-LETTER WORDS ($400) This adjective meaning loathsome is etymologically related to the word horror

($1600) This term for a volley from multiple rifles begins with “F”

($2000) This Russian word refers to sometimes fabricated material used to discredit an opponent

R&B & SOUL ($2000) A ’90s collective including Questlove & D’Angelo was called this, a portmanteau of soul & a word pertaining to a zodiac sign

LITERARY SETTINGS ($2000) In a 1938 Graham Greene novel, it’s followed by “Rock”, referring to a type of candy served there

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: SIMOLEONS, MOOLAH, SCRATCH, MONEY
($200) Often following “pounds” this general term for British currency comes from the name of an old silver coin
($400) The international monetary fund calculates value from a “basket” of 4 national currencies & this multinational one
($600) The name of this currency used in India comes from Sanskrit for “silver”
($800) People mistook Lady Liberty on an old 10 cent piece for a Roman god, leading to this name for the coin
($1000) The name of this former currency of Portugal came from scutum, Latin for “shield”

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