Final Jeopardy! Clues

[DBear]

NATIVE AMERICAN PLACENAMES

Mato Tipila, meaning Bear Lodge, is the Lakotan name for this national monument.

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What is Devils Tower

[mas3cf]

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

This country has a per capita GDP of over US$60,000 and has never recorded a temperature below 66 °F.

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What is Singapore?

[mas3cf]

SCIENCE

One of the most abundant fluids on Earth, in English it commonly goes by a five-letter name or a four-letter name, depending on its location.

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What is magma (or lava)?

[MattKnowles]

SCIENCE

One of the most abundant fluids on Earth, in English it commonly goes by a five-letter name or a four-letter name, depending on its location.

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What is magma (or lava)?

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I guessed water. Or agua.

Edit: I'm going to learn how to read. It's on my to-do list. The clue says "in English".

[seaborgium]

SCIENCE

One of the most abundant fluids on Earth, in English it commonly goes by a five-letter name or a four-letter name, depending on its location.

Spoiler

What is magma (or lava)?

I would argue that by its five-letter name, it's not "on earth."

[Golf]

SCIENCE

One of the most abundant fluids on Earth, in English it commonly goes by a five-letter name or a four-letter name, depending on its location.

Spoiler

What is magma (or lava)?

Strangely enough, this is right on par with many science questions actually asked on Jeopardy.

[AFRET CMS]

SCIENCE

One of the most abundant fluids on Earth, in English it commonly goes by a five-letter name or a four-letter name, depending on its location.

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What is magma (or lava)?

I would argue that by its five-letter name, it's not "on earth."

Perhaps a rephrase to "One of Earth's most abundant fluids, in English ..."

I kind of liked this clue. Biggest hint I got was

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from "fluid," which led me away from "liquid." Spent a moment playing with gasses, but lava/magma came after a few seconds thought.

[mas3cf]

IMPRESSIONISTS

He descended from the Counts of one region of southern France and the Viscounts of another.

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Who was Toulouse-Lautrec?

[mas3cf]

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Its population is projected to exceed 5 million in 2021 for the first time since 1851, despite being over 8 million in the 1841 census.

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What is Ireland?

[mas3cf]

BILLBOARD #1 HITS

These two singers whose names rhyme with each other had #1 hits with the same title; one in 1994, the other in 2008.

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Who are Madonna and Rihanna? ("Take a Bow")

[Woppy T]

BILLBOARD #1 HITS

These two singers whose names rhyme with each other had #1 hits with the same title; one in 1994, the other in 2008.

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Who are Madonna and Rihanna? ("Take a Bow")

I got this one, but only because it was a question on an old episode of The Chase.

[mas3cf]

BILLBOARD #1 HITS

These two singers whose names rhyme with each other had #1 hits with the same title; one in 1994, the other in 2008.

Spoiler

Who are Madonna and Rihanna? ("Take a Bow")

I got this one, but only because it was a question on an old episode of The Chase.

It was? Man, I thought I was being innovative!

[mas3cf]

TOP-SELLING MUSICAL ARTISTS

The hometown of two of the Billboard Top 5 selling musical artists of 2020.

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What is Toronto? (Drake, The Weeknd)

[mas3cf]

METEROLOGICAL PHENOMENA

Averaging around 140 per year, it has the most tornados of any U.S. state

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What is Texas? (combination of tornado-prone plus large area)

[cheezguyty]

WEIGHTS & MEASURES

Named for an 18th C. Englishman, this obsolete temperature scale was formulated by measuring how clay shrank when exposed to very high heat

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What is the Wedgwood scale?

[mas3cf]

CANADIAN PROVINCES

The hymn of this province has lyrics written in 1908 by Lucy Maud Montgomery, with music by Lawrence W. Watson

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What is Prince Edward Island?

[DBear]

CHESS OPENINGS

1.e4 e5 2. Ke2 is known as this attack, from the idea that one would have to be high on marijuana to play it.

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What is the Bongcloud Attack?

[MattKnowles]

20TH CENTURY LITERATURE

The opening scene is a continuation of the closing scene and creates an endless loop in this long 1996 novel whose title comes from a line in Hamlet.

Spoiler

Infinite Jest

[Lefty]

FICTIONAL PAIRS

Debuting in 1975, they were named for buildings 1.5 miles apart, at 301 Seventh Ave. and 401 Park Ave. in Manhattan.

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Who are Statler and Waldorf?

Love it, except that

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you've reversed the numbers on the two avenues.

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Its population is projected to exceed 5 million in 2021 for the first time since 1851, despite being over 8 million in the 1841 census.

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What is Ireland?

Although

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including the six counties still under British rule, the population today would be nearing 7 million.

I'll offer my own:


ANIMATED DISNEY CHARACTERS

Though introduced only in 1940, his name is invoked by one of Snow White's dwarfs in 1937.

Spoiler

Who is Jiminy Cricket?

[Foretopman]

Given all the brouhaha over the 3/23 FJ!, how about this:

The Olympics:

The 1994 Winter games, the first held in a different year than the Summer games, were held in this Scandinavian city.

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What is Lillehammer?