THE 13 COLONIES
9/13 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Founded by an advocate of religious freedom, it was the site of America's first Baptist church & oldest synagogue
9/14 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SCIENTIFIC ETYMOLOGY
9/14 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
2 of the 3 men for whom armalcolite, a dark gray mineral discovered in 1969, is named
9/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AUTHORS
9/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In addition to knowing many languages & making up his own, he also taught language at the universities of Leeds & Oxford
9/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE 21st CENTURY
9/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 2009 this 11-year-old started posting on BBC's Urdu language website under the screen name Gul Makai
9/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
19th CENTURY U.S. POLITICS
9/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Named after a U.K. political party that helped depose a king, the U.S. Whig Party was formed to oppose this man
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
(2 of) (Neil) Armstrong, (Buzz) Aldrin or (Michael) Collins
J.R.R. Tolkien
Malala (Yousafzai)
(Andrew) Jackson
The extra clues have three that Matt Amodio had correct.
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: Some light lamps to invite the presence of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, during this Hindu festival of lights
LET'S VISIT CENTRAL EUROPE $1600: During World War I Lenin lived on Spiegelgasse in this city, a center of European banking
ARTISTS $1600: A grave marker for this centenarian says, "Her primitive paintings... preserved the scene of a vanishing countryside"
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Zurich
Grandma Moses