Final Jeopardy: American Women (6-15-21)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 6/15/2021 Jeopardy! game:

DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY ($400) The telephone is invented by Bell

($1000) The Battle of Santiago goes all the way up San Juan Hill

NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES ($600) The right of “hot” this allows a nation to chase a boat from its own waters into the high seas

I HAVE TO GIVE YOU CREDIT ($200) In 1985 Sears launched this credit card with the promise of no annual fees

($400) The time between the end of a credit card’s billing cycle & the due date is this “period”

THE STAGE ($2000) In this David Mamet play, a junk shop owner has sold a rare nickel for less than it’s worth & plans to steal it back

HOME, SWEET ANIMAL HOME ($800) Poultry reside in a coop or pen & walk around in this 3-letter enclosure

($2000) This type of spider creates a deep burrow with a hinged entrance from which it jumps out & snatches prey

POP CULTURE TIDBITS ($1600) “Chernobyl” & this comic book movie won Iceland’s Hildur Gudnadottir an Emmy, a Grammy & an Oscar within the same awards season

DEFINITELY DEFINITIONS ($800) Like coward, this cowardly adjective is 6 letters & starts with “C”

($1200) Church law defines it as the “obstinate post-baptismal denial” of truth “which is believed by divine & Catholic faith”

($2000) Like prophesize, this 13-letter “pro-” verb means to forecast or predict a future event

AT FREDDY’S ($400) There were no rooms for Frederick the Great’s wife at his Sanssouci Palace; her more modest home was in another part of this capital

($1200) While holding this British title as heir apparent for 20-plus years, the 18th century’s “Poor Fred” lived in Cliveden House

($2000) A Dutch Prince Frederick once owned Muskauer Park on the Neisse River, shared by Germany & this country

Sneak Peek clues — HAVING A POSITIVE ALTITUDE
($200) Zugspitze, Germany’s highest peak, is 9,700 feet up in these mountains
($400) On the fringes of this world capital, a 17,200 foot volcano called Iztaccihuatl will take your breath away
($600) Lhasa, the capital of this autonomous region in Southwestern China, sits serenely at 12,000 feet
($800) This Southwestern state capital lies at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo mountains, about 1.3 miles above sea level
($1000) Located on the lower slopes of a volcano called Pichincha, this capital of Ecuador is up there at 9,350 feet

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