Final Jeopardy: Composers (9-22-23)

Here are some more clues from the 9/22/2023 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.

THINKING OF UKRAINE ($2000) Ukraine’s longest river, it bisects the country before emptying into the Black Sea

STARS & STRIPES IN ART ($2000) “Self-Portrait in Striped Shirt” is by this Viennese modernist who died aged just 28 in 1918

DO I WANT THAT NAMED FOR ME? ($400) Long ones are a proverbial sign of age, & to bishop, to file them down on a horse, is thought to be named after a practitioner of yore

($1200) This outdated name for a bad student comes from the middle name of John Scotus, a theologian & scholar

MAY WE QUOTE YOU? ($400) Twisting a phrase around, Oscar Wilde called this “the curse of the drinking classes”

($2000) This Boy Scouts founder said, “The Scouts’ motto is founded on my initials, it is: be prepared”

COMPOUND ADJECTIVES ($2000) Mean and unfeeling, like “Hannah the vamp of Savannah”

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Sneak Peek clues — SCHOOL RHYME TIME
($200) A more awesome 12-inch measuring stick
($400) A guess about what they’re serving in the cafeteria
($600) A mistake made by the person filling in for your regular teacher
($800) A fantastically ugly thing to sit at during class
($1000) A comparative chart of all the school’s employees

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