Final Jeopardy: Official Languages (8-8-22)

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

It’s the only U.N. Member state outside Europe with Dutch as an official language

New champ Tony Freitas, a project director from Los Angeles, CA won $16,200 yesterday. In Game 2, the challengers are: Cindy Zhang, a user experience designer from New York, NY; and Sri Kompella, a corporate strategy professional from Frisco, TX.

THIS GAME IS A RERUN FROM NOVEMBER 4, 2021. CLICK HERE FOR THE ORIGINAL RECAP.

Cindy Zhang was selected to compete in the Second Chance Tournament coming up in October 2022

JEOPARDY! ROUND:

19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS ($200) When Victoria Woodhull ran for President in 1872, she chose as her running mate this famed orator & activist
PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE ($400) Idiomatically, it precedes “skidoo”
INSTITUTIONS ($600) Raffles Institution is a co-educational school established back in 1823 in this city-state
CHARTED ($800) Louis de Freycinet mapped much of this large Australian island due south of Melbourne
ZOMBIETHON ($1000) Seth Grahame-Smith wrote this send-up of Jane Austen

ANSWERS: show

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND:

“ANTI” UP ($400) In Italian cuisine, it’s cold food you eat at the start of a meal
RE-CHARTED ($800) Of course this novelty hit by Bobby “Boris” Pickett was a hit for Halloween 1962, but why did it chart again in the summer of 1973?
THAT’S OUR FACTORY ($1200) This beauty company whose name partly means “gold”: the Lassigny plant north of Paris
EPONYMOUS -ISMs ($1600) The philosophical & political “ism” named for this 15th & 16th century man reflects his characteristic unscrupulousness
OLD LITERATURE ($2000) In an ancient Mesopotamian epic, this king of Rruk meets the goddess Ishtar

ANSWERS: show