Final Jeopardy: A Bit of Britain (11-29-23)

Here are some more clues from the 11/29/2023 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.

HERE COMES THE NEIGHBORHOOD ($1000) A real Charleston, S.C. neighborhood was the inspiration for this “Row” in the opera “Porgy & Bess”

LUCK OF THE DRAW ($200) From the Latin for “instill with life”, it’s the creation of a motion picture from a series of still images

MAKING WAVES ($1200) When you’re inside a wave’s hollow but still riding, you’re said to be in this colorful waiting area

METRICKY PROBLEMS ($1600) The measure abbreviated cu yd equals .765 of this

BARRE TENDERS ($1200) In 1989, he again danced with the Kirov Ballet, the first time since his defection 28 years earlier

($1600) Audiences fawned all over this Kyiv-born dancer when he came to Paris with Diaghilev in 1909

($2000) This ballerina known for her “Dying Swan” role starred in the 1916 silent film “The Dumb Girl of Portici”

BEN FRANKLIN’S DRINKER’S DICTIONARY ($1200) “He sees” these (Ben probably didn’t mean Walter Payton & Dick Butkus)

($2000) The unsteady fellow has “lost his” this, which has a handle called the tiller

LET’S HAVE A “BALL” ($2000) Fungus that discharges a cloud of spores when mature

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

Sneak Peek clues — A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS
($200) We don’t see what was so good about this 2-word term for the world wide 1930s economic disaster
($400) Both pleasant & painful, as in a memory
($600) Alliterative 2-word term for action by one’s own forces causing casualties to one’s own troops
($800) 2-word term for something supposedly confidential but actually known quite generally
($1000) This computer language gets oxymoronic when it follows “Advanced”

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show