Final Jeopardy: America in the 1700s (8-31-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (8/31/2020) in the category “America in the 1700s” was:

“Every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred” is in No. 6 of these

Today’s show is a rerun of the game that originally aired on 5/18/2020. The players are: Jesse Laymon, Ben Scripps and Megan Elliott.

Click here for the original recap of this game.

If you know the answers to these random clues, you won’t have any trouble with the 10 clues in today’s game that have the same answer:

4-11-2012: FIRST LADY FIRSTS ($800) Casting her vote in 1920, she was the first First Lady who was able to vote for her husband [Today you only have to know her first name]

11-9-1994: MUSEUMS ($200) The National Portrait Gallery is a part of this Washington, D.C. museum complex

5-11-1994: 1980s MOVIES ($300) Robert De Niro played Chicago mobster Al Capone in this 1987 film

2-15-2016: WHERE YA FROM? ($200) People from the Perth area of this country are “Sandgropers”

7-6-1993: CONTAINERS ($400) Named for the wood it’s made of, this chest is used to store woolens

11-8-1989: DANCE ($200) Teenagers were already doing this dance on “American Bandstand” when Chubby Checker recorded his hit

3-7-2011: ASTRONOMY ($200) It orbits the sun at an average distance of .3871 astronomical units, the lowest average of all the planets

1-13-1986: PLAYWRIGHTS ($200) As a young congressman, LBJ escorted this author of “Pygmalion” around Texas

7-10-1991: FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES ($600) Russian for a three-horse sled, it’s also three ideas represented metaphorically

9-20-2001: WE ARE THE WORLD ($500) In 1998 MCI Communications merged with this major company