Final Jeopardy: Around the World (6-1-21)

Here are some more clues from the 6/1/2021 Jeopardy! game:

PERU ($400) In the late 19th & early 20th centuries, Iquitos was a major shipping port on this river during the rubber boom

SCIENTISTS ($200) Ernest Rutherford wrote that this colleague for whom a “counter” is named “could count… for a whole night”

($1000) This French pioneer of studies in electricity got quite a shock when his father was guillotined in 1793

MAKING FETCH HAPPEN ($800) Hercules’ 11th labor was a fruit run to fetch these valuable items guarded by the Hesperides

U.S. HISTORY ($800) This body convened for the first time on March 4, 1789 but only 8 members– 4 short of a quorum– showed up

($2000) On October 5, 1877 this native people’s Chief Joseph surrendered to pursuing U.S. soldiers

WORDS OF WISDOM ($800) Take the creature seen here (image), add one letter and you have this word meaning “clever”

($1600) This 7-letter word can mean wise or pertaining to the species of man

($2000) It’s “a” 6-letter noun meaning deftness, often in business

The players only got one of the clue in QUOTATIONS:

($400) The Book of Proverbs provided a play & movie title with “he that troubleth his own house shall inherit” this
($800) “Government of the people, by the people, for the people” is from the end of this brief but powerful speech
($1200) In “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, Linus quotes this Gospel’s “Fear not: for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy”
($1600) In “The Prophet”, he wrote “Work is love made visible”
($2000) This missionary whose time was 1875-1965 said, “Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now– always.”

ANSWERS: show

Sneak Peek clues — ANIMAL EXPRESSION FILL-IN
($200) “The best laid schemes of _____ & men”
($400) “A ____ in a poke”
($600) “A sacred ____”
($800) “As fine as ____’s hair”
($1000) “One ____ does not make a summer”

ANSWERS: show