Final Jeopardy: The 20th Century (12-4-24)

Here are some more clues from the 12/4/2024 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.

WORLD HISTORY ($200) Building on 1936’s Axis Agreement, in 1939 these 2 European nations signed the Pact of Steel

($600) This African kingdom, spelled with a “K” & not a “C” like 2 current nations, began around 1390 & lasted until 1914

($1000) This man & his crew explored the eastern Canadian coast in the 1530s, laying the basis for French claims to the region

AMERICAN TV SHOWS IN SPANISH ($600) “Para Toda La Humanidad”

($800) “El Rey de la Colina”

VERY DEMURE, VERY MINDFUL ($600) It often precedes a demure “bride” & also comes before “like a rose” in a Dean Martin song

WORLD OF DANCE ($1200) In 1894, Native Americans were filmed doing this circle dance meant to reunite the living with the dead

($1600) The Adumu is the traditional jumping dance of these nomadic people of Kenya & Tanzania

A REAL SOB STORY ($400) The sisters in “Little Women” sob a lot; this sister sells her hair & then cries about how it looks

($800) Jason Kelce: Crying is no biggie to me and check it out in some classic lit: “Alexei Alexandrovich was weeping, kissing her hands, and saying, ‘How happy we are now!’ And Alexei Vronsky was there, too…” in this novel

PLAINS, RAINS & AUTOBAHNS ($1600) This U.S. city near the Pacific coast gets quite a bit of rain in winter & some seems to be moving in here (image)

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING
($200) In 2024 Sage, a miniature one of these, was the top dog at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (image)
($400) In 1873 New York was the first state to proclaim this May holiday; Waterloo near Cayuga Lake claims the title of its birthplace
($600) No business like shoe business, but after a bad earnings call in June 2024, this Oregon Co. lost $28 billion in value in a day
($800) Announcing his run for Pres. On Oct. 3, 1991, he said, “We can make America great again…we can build a community of hope
($1000) In the KJV, the Egyptians might have been tempted to shave their heads when “all the dust of the land became” this third plague

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