Final Jeopardy Week April 24 - 28. 2017

April 24, 2017

Final Jeopardy Category:

Presidents

Final Jeopardy Clue:

Though he graduated from high school in 1901 & later graduated to the Presidency, he never graduated from college

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Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:

Harry Truman

April 25, 2017

Final Jeopardy Category:

Numeric Groups

Final Jeopardy Clue:

This numeric group was the subject of an April 20, 1959 TIME magazine article titled “Rendezvous with Destiny”

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Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:

Mercury Seven

April 26, 2017

Final Jeopardy Category:

Famous Homes

Final Jeopardy Clue:

While the White House was being built, George Washington’s executive mansion was in this city

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Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:

Philadelphia

April 27, 2017

Final Jeopardy Category: 

Toys

Final Jeopardy Clue:

When it was first marketed in the late 1970s, this toy was given the Hungarian name “Buvos Kocka”

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Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:

Rubik’s Cube

April 28, 2017

Final Jeopardy Category:

Famous Work’s First Lines

Final Jeopardy Clue:

The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life

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Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:

The Wealth of Nations

Final Jeopardy 4-20-2017

Final Jeopardy Category:

Actresses

Forbes says Jennifer Lawrence was the highest-paid actress in 2016; this alliterative woman was second

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Final Jeopardy Question /  Answer

Melissa McCarthy

Final Jeopardy 4-19-2017

Final Jeopardy category:

HISTORIC U.S. LAWS

Final Jeopardy clue/answer:

By barring holding positions at competing firms, 1914’s Clayton Act plugged gaps in this law

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Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:

Sherman Act

Final Jeopardy 4-17-2017

Final Jeopardy category: 

UNIVERSITIES

Final Jeopardy clue/answer: 

This university on John C. Calhoun’s former plantation is named for Calhoun’s son-in-law, who gave the land

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Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:

Clemson University

Final Jeopardy 4-4-2017

Final Jeopardy category: 

CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS

Final Jeopardy clue/answer: 

Raised in industrial Yorkshire, he moved to L.A. in 1964 & thought, “This is the place to be–in the land of swimming pools”

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Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:

David Hockney

Final Jeopardy 4-3-2017

Final Jeopardy 4-3-2017

Final Jeopardy category: 

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

Final Jeopardy clue/answer: 

In 1947 these 2 nations became the first new members of the British Commonwealth since the original group in 1931

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Final Jeopardy Question / Answer:

India and Pakistan

Final Jeopardy 3-6-2017

Rob:     15,200

Alison: 13,400

Ernie:    8,400

Final Jeopardy Category:   Europe

Final Jeopardy Question:  These 2 countries whose names start with the same 4 letters were part of different countries until the 1990s.

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Final Jeopardy 3-4-2017

Saturday Repeat

Matt:  $35,000!!

Jedidiah: $2,000

Vicki: 14,200

Final Jeopardy Category: Rock and Roll

Final Jeopardy Question: The group Nazareth took its name from the first line of a 1968 song from another band

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Final Jeopardy 3-3-2017

Rob :    14,000

Trish:    4,800

Jeff:      6,600

Final jeopardy Category:  Author's Epithets

Final Jeopardy Question:  His tombstone in a Hampshire Churchyard reads:  "Knight, Patriot, Physician and Man of Letters (May 22, 1859. - July 7, 1930)

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