Final Jeopardy: Africa (11-3-20)

Here are 8 more triple stumpers from the 11/3/2020 Jeopardy! game:

RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH ($1000) The world’s deepest river, exceeding 700 feet at its max, it’s also Africa’s 2nd longest river at 2,900 miles

AMERICAN NAMES ($800) The London Times mocked his mechanical reaper as “a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow & a flying machine”

GESTURES ($1000) The pinkie & thumb extend & the other fingers curl to form a Hawaiian gesture for this 2-word phrase about relaxing, also known as shaka

WEIGHT, WHAT’S THAT? ($1000) This name for a type of pound is from the French for “goods of weight”

A PIRATE’S LIFE ($2000) 16th century pirate Khidr, aka Barbarossa, took Algiers from the Spanish with the help of this empire

1970: 50 YEARS AGO ($800) This Garry Trudeau comic strip debuted in 28 newspapers

COMPOUND WORDS ($400) A dactylogram is another word for this

($2000) It’s a 10-letter word for a newbie as well as the second rank in Boy Scouts

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — BEFORE & AFTER
($200) Russian empress who covers 95,000 square miles of water as a North American quintet
($400) Central Florida NBA team used by Prince Husain in “One Thousand & One Nights”
($600) Symbol on the Israeli flag that sang “Let’s Dance”
($800) Spielberg movie about an effort to save a World War II soldier who’s also a 12-medal-wining U.S. Olympic swimmer
($1000) An NPR station’s push for donation has this window for motorists at Burger King

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