Final Jeopardy: Poets (8-30-22)

Today’s Final Jeopardy clue in the category “Poets” was:

In 1939 he was buried near his last residence in France, but his body arrived in Galway en route to his final burial on Sept. 17, 1948

16x champ Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, won $368,981 so far. In Game 17, she takes on these two players: Ben Hsia, a R & D Engineer from Fremont, CA; and Christina Clark, an elementary music teacher from De Pere, WI.

THIS GAME IS A RERUN FROM APRIL 27, 2022. CLICK HERE FOR THE ORIGINAL RECAP.

Here are two categories, one from each round of this game:

JEOPARDY! ROUND: The contestants got all the clues in THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG
($200) This French-named dish is basically an egg pie; the Lorraine region is associated with it
($400) McDonald’s launched these nationally in 1983
($600) This meat is an ingredient in both chicken cordon bleu & a Denver omelet
($800) Italian for fried gives us the name of this egg dish, basically an unfolded omelet
($1000) Eggs & a peppery tomato sauce are the basis of this trendy Mideast breakfast dish

ANSWERS: show

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND: The contestants also got all the clues in THE ANCIENT WORLD
($400) Scythians buried some women with weapons & likely inspired the Greek lore of these women warriors
($800) In Rome, saturnism, or poisoning by this metal, was sometimes caused by the practice of boiling down wine in vessels made from it
($1200) The remains of the Ludus Magnus, a gladiator training school, are just steps from this arena built in Rome about 70 A.D.
($1600) Over 2,000 years ago in India, iron & wood were combined to make wootz, an early version of this iron-carbon alloy
($2000) Tekhen, the Egyptian word for this type of pillar, comes from their word for “to pierce”, like pierce the sky

ANSWERS: show