Final Jeopardy: International Disputes (7-17-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question in the category “International Disputes” was:

A dispute over Etorofu, Habomai, Kunashiri & Shikotan has kept these 2 countries from ever signing a WWII peace treaty

Today’s players: Francois Barcomb from New Paltz, NY, James Holzhauer from Las Vegas, NV, and Emma Boettcher from Chicago, IL.

This is a rerun from 11/15/2019. The full recap is over here

Here are two categories from the final match of the 2017 Tournament of Champions (with Buzzy Cohen, Alan Lin and Austin Rogers):

HISTORIC OBJECTS ($200) Over 5 feet long, one of these in Stirling, Scotland is claimed to be the personal weapon of 13th c. Scottish leader Wm. Wallace

($400) The first of these Times Square objects was 700 pounds, made out of iron & wood & covered with 100 light bulbs

($600) The ancient Persian artifact called the “Spring of Khosrow” was this, reputedly covering 40,000 square feet

($800) The club he used to whack a golf ball over 200 yards on the moon in 1971 is today in the USGA Museum

($1000) The helmet is part of the Anglo-Saxon trove from this oddly-named site–a “hoo” is a little hill

TYPES OF MOVIES ($400) “Le Pistole Non Discutono”, AKA “Bullets Don’t Argue”, is this type of low-budget western

($800) This alliterative term can refer to any type of olden furniture as well as a movie set in olden times

($1200) 1970s genre of film depicting African Americans in unrealistic & often violent situations

($1600) Films about male duos like Bill & Ted or Harold & Kumar aren’t “pal movies” or “bro movies” but these

($2000) The 1961 documentary “Chronicle of a Summer” is said to have originated this 2-word French-named style