Final Jeopardy: Countries of the World (7-11-24)

Here are some more clues from the 7/11/2024 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.

LET’S GO TO THE CONCERT HALL ($200) It’s a rule not to clap at this point during a symphony, but conductor Pierre Monteux called that “artificial restraint”

($600) A popular design for concert halls has sloped terraces & is named after this type of area where a certain fruit is grown

($1000) The first violinist also has this title & gets a handshake from the conductor to show the maestro’s respect for the orchestra

1980S AMATEUR WRESTLING ($400) At the 1980 NCAA championships, Oregon State’s Howard Harris won all 5 of his matches by “fall”–doing this to opponents

($000) After having his spleen removed, cancer survivor Jeff Blatnick won 1984 Olympic gold in this heavier-than-heavyweight division

STATES THAT END IN HAMPSHIRE In 1934 it got a bit breezy at this N.H. mountain, the highest peak of the White Mountains, with winds clocking in at 231 mph

($1000) It’ll be a notch in your belt if you know this town, as always, voted right after midnight on Election Day 1984; Reagan won, 29-1

ANIMAL SYNERGY ($400) In the Kalahari the drongo bird alerts the “manor” of this burrowing creature to predators

($1200) On the Savannah this big bird can see real good & this equine has a keen nose, so the 2, ebony & ivory, live together in harmony

($1600) The cattle species of this bird dines on insects that the water buffalo stirs up while it’s grazing

ALPHABETICALLY LAST ($800) Of the Pentateuch (the first 5 books of the Old Testament)

($1200) Of U.S. state capitals (head east)

($2000) Of the body’s 206 bones (it makes you cheeky)

HEIR ($1600) “Dark” nickname of the heir apparent of English King Edward III, who beat the French in battle at Poitiers in 1356

($2000) This Byzantine emperor, the 8th to use the name, had no male heir, so he married off his daughter Zoe so she could reign

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: OCCUPATIONAL POTPOURRI
($200) This protective job has given big brains time to think: Edward Snowden (at a research center), Bill James (a pork & beans cannery)
($400) An old line says an unpopular politician “couldn’t get elected” to this job, now with the upgraded name animal control officer
($600) In “Middlemarch” wealthy & powerful Mr. Bulstrode has this occupation, also a job in the game Monopoly
($800) Each the main character of their own 2024 TV series, “Renegade Nell” & Dick Turpin are these robbers of the road in Olde England
($1000) Smith is the USA’s most common occupational surname; second is this, a job that’s literally a grind

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