Final Jeopardy: Pre-Civil War Presidents (9-8-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/8/2020) in the category “Pre-Civil War Presidents” was:

Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: “After an extended tour of Europe he retired to Concord…& he died in obscurity”

Today’s show is a rerun of the game that originally aired on 6/9/2020. The players are: Morgan Wilbanks, Shelli Castor and Zach Newkirk.

Click here for the original recap of this game.

If you know the answers to these random clues, you won’t have any trouble with the 10 clues that have the same response in today’s game:

10-06-1998: BOND… JAMES BOND ($500) In 1979 this Bond film featured a stolen space shuttle — 2 years before the launch of Columbia

07-02-2001: MIDDLE NAMES ($400) U.S. Steel founder John Morgan

01-17-1997: HUNGARY ($500) This ethnic group makes up at least 95% of Hungary’s population

10-19-1989: TRIVIA $200: The symbol on the cans of this brand of paint wears wooden shoes

02-20-2017: BRITISH ENGLISH $800: Fish entrails used to lure sharks in the U.S., or an old friend in Britain

01-20-2000: ALONG CAME MARY ($500) Works by this female impressionist include “The Loge” & “The Bath”

07-22-1994: MOUNTAINS ($1000) At 6,214 feet, Mount Narodnaya is the highest peak of this range

07-21-2016: A SUMMER COLD ($400) On July 16, 1967 this capital of Florida topped out at a surprisingly chilly (for them) 57 degrees

05-03-2001: SITCOMS ($200) On “Just Shoot Me”, this “SNL” alum plays Dennis Finch, the power-hungry assistant of Jack Gallo

05-23-1994: ’50s FILM FACTS $600: Poetic pair played by Jennifer Jones & Bill Travers in 1957’s “The Barretts of Wimpole Street”