Final Jeopardy: Historic Americans (9-16-25)

Here are some more clues from the 9/16/2025 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.

U.S. GEOGRAPHY ($800) “Valley Isle” is a nickname for this second-largest Hawaiian island

INTERESTING TREES ($400) Trees on the island of Socotra named for this mythical creature produce a blood-colored sap that used as varnish for violins

($1200) The anti-cancer drug Taxol was produced from the bark of the Pacific species of this 3-letter tree

($1600) In 1964 Donald Rusk Currey accidentally killed a 5,000-year-old specimen of this gnarly, ancient tree on Wheeler Peak in Eastern Nevada

($2000) This fig tree, Ficus microcarpa, is known for its aerial roots, which sprout from the branches & down to the soil

FIERY WORDS & PHRASES ($2000) Now an idiom for any irreversible course, this was suggested by Sun Tzu after an army crossed hostile borders

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: EUROPEAN HISTORY
($200) Marshal Tito, born Josip Broz, was president of this country for 27 years; 11 years after his death it began to partition
($400) Known as the “Red Eminence, this man of the cloth was the first minister to Louis XIII
($600) In 1866 this small Alpine nation deployed 80 soldiers as part of the Austro-Prussian War; oddly, 81 returned
($800) Cervantes fought in the Battle of Lepanto, part of a conflict that saw Venice, Spain & the Papacy facing this Eastern power
($1000) This 2-region region on the border of Germany & France traded hands times, starting in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War

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