Final Jeopardy: Food & Drink Phrases (6-8-21)

Here are some more clues from the 6/8/2021 Jeopardy! game:

WELCOME TO THE PARTY ($800) Spurned by the Whigs & Dems, this sitting president welcomed himself in 1844 to a new party, which he created!

($1000) This splinter wing of the Democratic Party welcomed Strom Thurmond with a presidential nomination in 1948

LATE ($800) In Italy the late Gothic period of art was centered in Siena & this big city just to the north

($1000) Caused by a water mold, “late” this caused the Irish potato famine

LAKES OF EUROPE ($1200) Only a narrow barrier separates Romania’s Lake Razelm from this sea

($1600) If you’re sailing around the Frisian Lakes like Sneekermeer, you’re having fun in this country

($2000) The shores of Hungary’s Lake Balaton have been used for this type of agriculture for 2,000 years

ANIMAL-NAMED ANIMALS ($2000) There’s a big cat in the name of these colorful Pacific reef dwellers with venomous spines

KEEP THE FAITH ($1600) Southeast Asia has many temples of Cao Dai, which blends Buddhism, Taoism & this other ancient East Asian system

($2000) Founded in Iran in the mid-19th century, this faith has no priesthood & believes in the unity of humanity

L-M-N ($1600) It’s the highest or utmost point of something

Sneak Peek clues — CLUES FROM THE FIRST CROSSWORD PUZZLE
($200) A boy (3 letters)
($400) Found on the seashore (4 letters)
($600) To govern (4 letters)
($800) To elude (5 letters) also starts and ends with “E”
($1000) A daydream (7 letters) we’ll spot you the first letter, “R”

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