Final Jeopardy: African Geography (5-12-16)

Here are 7 triple stumpers from the 5-12-2016 Jeopardy! match.

AMONG THE 10 LARGEST ISLANDS ($400) In the 1720s Daniel DeFoe published a 3-volume “tour” of this home island.

TELL ME SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW ($600) Seen here, the Reynolds Building in North Carolina was an inspiration for this other building that went up 2 years later

AN ENVIRONMENTAL CATEGORY ($400) This Fish & Wildlife Service uses this adjective for species likely to become endangered if something isn’t done

($1600) Add a letter to “recycling” & you get this practice of shopping with an awareness of waste reduction

NONFICTION ($800) “Trapped under the Sea” investigates a disaster that struck during a cleanup of the harbor of this city known as “The Hub”

BEEN HER ($1200) Robyn Fenty

PUT IT THERE! ($1200) Expecting a crash? Put your money in this, a term for gold & silver by quantity in bars or ingots

The players got all the clues in SHAKESPEAREAN JEOPARDY!

($200) “Now is the Jeopardy! of our discontent”
($400) “Something is rotten in the State of Jeopardy!”
($600) “The quality of Jeopardy! is not strain’d”
($800) “It is the green-eyed Jeopardy! which doth mock the meat it feeds on”
and our favorite…
($1,000) “It is the East & Jeopardy! Is the sun”

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