Final Jeopardy: Middle Eastern Geography (9-1-21)

Here are some more clues from the 9/1/2021 Jeopardy! game:

HERBS ($1000) Eating one seed from the castor bean can be fatal due to the presence of this blood-clumping toxin

UNDER THE USA ($1000) Once a government relocation site, West Virginia’s Greenbrier this was designed as a Cold War fallout shelter

BETWEEN HELL & HIGH…($200) This feeling of being utterly forlorn has 2 sets of double “S”

ETYMOLOGY ($800) The Pope delivers blessings from this type of projecting platform, from Italian for “scaffold”

LITERARY ANTAGONISTS ($1200) Seen here (image) is one of the classic meanies in all of lit, this villain of a Dickens novel

AWARDS & HONORS ($2000) In France, the Croix de Guerre is automatically awarded to those who receive this 3-word decoration for war services

MANE’S THE SAME ($1600) Marty & the San Diego Zoo’s Robert

($2000) Lippy & Kovu

Sneak Peek clues — NFL TEAMS IN SPANISH
($200) Los Gigantes
($400) Los Osos
($600) Los Cuarenta y Nueve
($800) Las Aguilas
($1000) Los Cuervos

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