Final Jeopardy: Bodies of Water (8-8-23)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (8/8/2023) in the category “Bodies of Water” was:

The Kattegat & Skagerrak straits separate these 2 seas

It’s the second Semifinal in Week 2 of the 2022 Second Chance Tournament and the contestants are: Tom Philipose, a writing professor from Forest Hills, NY; Alicia O’Hare, a social worker from Long Beach, NY; and Jack Weller, a law student orig. from San Diego, CA. (Click on their names for their original games.)

TODAY’S RERUN: WEEK 2: 2022 SECOND CHANCE TOURNAMENT SEMIFINAL GAME NO. 2. CLICK HERE IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE GAME RECAP AND TRIPLE STUMPERS.

Here is the MISCELLANY category from Double Jeopardy!

($400) You’ll be well over a mile high at the top of 714-foot Republic Plaza, this city’s tallest building
($800) Saguaro cactus & this tequila-producing desert plant both depend on the lesser long-nosed bat for pollination
($1200) By 1934 the New Deal with its administrative creations like the NRA & CCC had been dubbed this food
($1600) This Italian’s 1867 opera “Don Carlos” was written in French, & in 2022 the Metropolitan Opera finally sang it that way
($2000) Only identified around 1920, this condition of uterine lining growing where it shouldn’t affects as many as one woman in 10

Answers: show

Here is the highlights video from the game, which includes the Final Jeopardy! round