Final Jeopardy: World Flags (2-5-24)

Here are some more clues from the 2/5/2024 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.

LAKES & RIVERS ($1000) Europe’s longest river, the Volga flows more than 2,000 miles south into this large inland body of water

IT’S GIVING… ($200) In 1997 Kofi Annan thanked Ted Turner for the $1 billion given to this org., which was meant to invite other individual donations

($800) Apparently really into science, Ross Brown, the founder of Cryogenic Industries, pledged $400 million to this Pasadena college

($1000) Named for an athlete whose brother was a doctor, this Seattle cancer center has gotten gifts, like $700 million from Jeff Bezo’s parents

TOOLS ($1000) Used on bolts or screws, metric hex keys are known by this letter, their shape

BRITISH LITERATURE ($1200) The 24 pilgrim storytellers in “The Canterbury Tales” include this bawdy woman who tells of her 5 husbands

($1600) A man stopped on his way to a wedding feast is told of tragic events aboard a ship in this 1798 narrative poem

SOME LAZY WORDS ($1200) Oscitant is an adjective that means doing this–& don’t start, because I will too

SINGLE-NAMED SINGERS ($1600) In 2022 this “Pieces of You” singer returned with “Freewheelin’ Woman”, her first album in 7 years

($2000) An icon of ’60s cool, this German model & actress rose to musical fame with The Velvet Underground

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Sneak Peek clues — 2 ACTORS, ONE TV SHOW
($200) Allison Janney & Dulé Hill did some walking and talking in the White House on this NBC drama
($400) In a group project, Gillian Jacobs & Yvette Nicole Brown schooled you from 2009 to 2015 on this college-set NBC sitcom
($600) In 2001 Jeri Ryan & Tim Russ completed a “Trek” through the Delta quadrant n the title starship
($800) Rebecca Wisocky & Brandon Scott Jones are scary good as the dearly departed Hetty & Isaac on this CBS comedy
($1000) We’re sanguine you’ll recall Michelle Forbes & Tara Buck takin’ in life in Loo’siana on this fangs-tastic HBO series

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show