BRITISH NAMES
12/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The last name of this 17th c. baronet who held many offices is synonymous with the govt. & especially the PM's residence
12/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE SUPREME COURT
12/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes once referred to this 1857 decision as the court's first self-inflicted wound
12/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY
12/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Most of the land fighting in the first Punic war between Rome & Carthage was on this island
12/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
COASTLINES
12/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
At 3,700 miles, the longest ocean trench is named for these 2 nations that share most of South America's Pacific coast
12/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AUTHORS
12/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The first novelist on Forbes’ list of billionaires, this author fell off in 2012 after giving an estimated $160 million to charity
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Dred Scott decision (Dred Scott v. Sanford)
Sicily
Chile and Peru
J.K. Rowling
The extra clues have one correct by the players followed by two triple stumpers.
ASIAN GEOGRAPHY $2000: The Camotes sea is a small sea lying between the islands of Cebu & Leyte in this republic
AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: In 1933 this new head of the Department of Labor became the first female cabinet member
AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBELISTS $2000: The 2nd & 3rd books in Faulkner's trilogy about this family were published almost 2 decades after the first
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Frances Perkins
Snopes
Many clues have such a benefit. For example the first female cabinet member extra clue is not just her name, but use 1933 to know it's FDR and pause to take in the Dept. is Labor as well.