Final Jeopardy: World Airports (11-29-24)

Here are some more clues from the 11/xx/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.

“LAND” HO! ($800) It’s named for a Slavic tribe whose name means “people of the fields” & who began living there more than 1,000 years ago

ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES ($400) The records played at this rpm, the standard format from the early 1900s into the 1950s, were mostly made of shellac, not vinyl

CAUGHT SNACKING ($400) You stole my last vintage bag of “Finz!” from the U.K.! Here in the States it’s this cracker brand from Pepperidge Farm

8-LETTER WORDS ($1000) On a big sailing ship, it’s the principal spar located between the fore & mizzen ones

AMERICAN HISTORY ($1600) In 1625 it became the first royal colony, with Sir Francis Wyatt the first crown-appointed governor

($2000) On April 19, 1775 patriots turned back the advancing British at this bridge spanning the Concord River

SHEIK ($2000) A Sports Illustrated article from 2021 titled “The Derby, the Sheikh & the Missing Princess” focused on this emirate’s ruler

RATTLE ($1600) The shifting plates that cause earthquakes make up this “sphere” that “rocks” over the weak & ductile asthenosphere

($2000) In the U.S. earthquakes are now measured using a scale of seismic intensity named for this Italian

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: THE BILLBOARD HOT 100: APRIL 9, 1983
($200) The No. 1 song was this Michael Jackson ode to denying biological parentage
($400) “We’ve Got Tonight”, & we’ve got this country “Gambler” teaming with Sheena Easton
($600) They they were “Hungry Like The Wolf” to be No. 1, but fell fell 2 spots short
($800) Welcome Dexys Midnight Runners to the stage! They’re charting with this song, & may we add, “too rah loo rah too rah loo rye ay”
($1000) “My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain IBM” in this song that included some lyrics in Japanese, No. 5 for Styx

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