Final Jeopardy: Military Slang (5-21-20)

Here are 9 more triple stumpers from the 5/21/2020 Jeopardy! game:

DRINK UP: IT’S THIRST-DAY ($1000) A World War I artillery piece gave its national name & caliber to this champagne cocktail

GEOGRAPHY ($1000) The Philippines’ largest islands are Luzon and this one down south

STORY OF MYTH ($1000) An errant lioness interrupts the budding romance of Babylonian youths Thisbe & this guy

HIGHWAYS ($2000) Both St. John’s on Newfoundland & Victoria in British Columbia have mile 0 markers for this highway

WORDS THAT RHYME ($1200) What the defendant did in court regarding a legal charge & to totally carve it up on a snowboard, dude

BOSS HOG ($400) Twrch Trwyth is a fierce boar that this legendary “King of the Britons” faces off against in the “Mabinogion”

THEM DUKE BOYS! ($400) At 23 in 1705 Archibald Campbell, third Duke of Argyll, was appointed treasurer of this country

($1200) Wealthy landowner & 1750s Prime Minister Thomas Pelham-Holles was Duke of this “upon-Tyne”

($2000) Machiavelli fittingly referred to the young duke Cesare Borgia as a “new” this title

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — RUN ON SENTENCES
($400) It’s said of this nursery rhyme trio, “See how they run!”
($800) This number psalm says, “Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over”
($1200) Before a heavyweight title fight, Joe Louis said, “He can run, but” these three words
($1600) In 1814 a Belgian diplomat said the Congress of this city “doesn’t run– it waltzes”
($2000) In this Shakespeare comedy, Lysander says, “The course of true love never did run smooth”

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