WORD ORIGINS
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The first recorded use of this word in print was when Nathan Hope posted an image of his busted lip online in 2002
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WORLD POLITICS
2/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In August 2015 3 retired Marines helped raise the U.S. flag in this city where they'd hauled it down 54 years earlier
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PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEARS
2/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Year the New York World lamented, “The age of statesmen is gone…the age of rail-splitters and tailors…has succeeded”
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SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS
2/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
About himself he says, "Since the heavens have shap'd my body so, let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it"
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17th CENTURY GERMANS
2/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Astronomer who began his epitaph, "I used to measure the heavens, now I shall measure the shadows of Earth"
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Havana
1864
Richard III
Johannes Kepler
The extra clues have a requested triple stumper, one correct, and another triple stumper.
ALL IN A DAY'S WORK $1000: An 8-hour day & I made 40 buttons, so divide output by input to get this measure, 5 per hour
UNCHARTED $2000: In the 500s B.C. Scylax sailed the length of this longest river of Pakistan to the Arabian Sea and beyond
I'M A FOOD "E" $800: The hole truth is it's another name for Swiss cheese
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Indus
Emmentaler