Final Jeopardy: 19th Century Women (7-19-24)

Here are some more clues from the 7/19/2024 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.

BRITISH HISTORY ($600) Pope Leo X gave this monarch the title “Defender of the Faith” in 1521 for his written work against Martin Luther

($1000) Embalmers messed up the body after his 1658 death; in 1661 folks thought putting his head on a pole was a nice finishing touch

THE OLYMPICS ($1000) Reminiscent of witches, it’s the bowl-like structure that holds the flame in the host stadium; Torino’s was placed 190 feet up

IT’S SOME KIND OF LAW ($800) A 1968 U.N. agreement requires states to rescue & assist these people & “promptly return them to their launching state”

RATED “PG” ($1000) Ahoy, mateys! Scurry aloft & haul in these sails high, high up on the masts

40 ($400) In Venice, plague caused ships to be isolated in harbors for 40 days, leading to this modern word

($600) If you make it to 40 years of marriage, know that it’s termed this gem anniversary (a variety of corundum)

FANNY PACK ($800) She was the original “Funny Girl”, dressed up here as her character Baby Snooks

($1600) In the 1980s this Swede wrote & directed the period family drama “Fanny & Alexander”

CLASSICAL MUSIC ($1600) Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier” is a set of 48 preludes & these, which Bach also taught us “The Art of”

FORT-Y ($1200) We’d be in euphoria if you knew this fort near El Paso was named for Zachary Taylor’s son-in-law, a West Point math teacher

The players missed 2 clues in A LITTLE WORD MATH
($1600) A no-fooling state of mind you might be “in” – an external organ = this animal abode
($2000) A religious residence + a charged atom = this big assembly

WORD MATH ANSWERS: ($1600) nest (earnest – ear)
($2000) convention (convent + ion)

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: RODENTS
($200) Faked scenes in the 1958 Disney film “White Wilderness” aided the false narrative that these arctic rodent commit suicide
($400) Species of this burrowing rodent in the U.S. include plains pocket & northern pocket
($600) These rodents lives in towns and extended family groups called coteries
($800) Its name may be from the French for sleep, because it hibernates about half the year, missing out on a lot of tea parties
($1000) The giant species of this rodent has been recorded as gliding up to 1,500 feet from tree to tree

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