FJs for the 5/15/23 week of Masters

[MarkBarrett]

5/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

5/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Not a department head but of Cabinet rank, the person in this post has had an official residence in a 42nd floor Park Avenue penthouse

5/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
19th CENTURY FIRST LADIES

5/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
After her husband left office, a minister wrote the White House was "purer because" this first lady "has been its mistress"

5/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORLD CITIES

5/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This capital city founded in 1567 was where the founding statute of OPEC was adopted in 1961

5/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LANDMARKS

5/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
For more than a millennium, a huge embroidered work known as the kiswa has been used to adorn & protect this structure

5/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE LAKE SHOW

5/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
12 years before meeting Stanley at Lake Tanganyika, David Livingstone reached this national body of water in 1859

5/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
20th CENTURY FRENCH AUTHORS

5/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
He said a famous book of his was inspired by a visit to the zoo, where he observed the gorillas' humanlike expressions

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

ambassador to the United Nations
Lucy Hayes ("Lemonade Lucy")
Caracas
the Kaaba
Lake Malawi
Pierre Boulle

The players were 6/18 (33.33%) with a 1-1-2-1-1-0 success pattern.

The extra clues have 3 correct by the players.

FROM THE GREEK $600: This stage in the development of a butterfly is from the Greek for "gold"

WOMEN IN HISTORY $1600: Last name of pioneering doctors & sisters Elizabeth & Emily, subjects of a recent biography on how they changed medicine

NEW WORLD EXPLORATION $2000: In 1500 this sailor headed to India but made a right turn & landed in Brazil, claiming it for Portugal

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

chrysalis
Blackwell
Cabral

[MarkBarrett]

Postmaster General
Dolley Madison
Lake Uganda

In my first game a clue gave the Oscar-winning song and wanted the movie when I rang in first, so no problem getting the Mary Poppins song in the Masters.

[LucarioSnooperVixey]

[seaborgium]

Bad guesses were treasurer, Angkor Wat, Lake Chad, and Proust just to have something, though I did think of PotA without knowing an author's name (even having seen LSV's spoilerrific bump in the FJ clues thread). I think that leaves me batting .500 on Masters FJs.

I got the Oscar song.

[davey]

Mon seems obvious in retrospect. Would not have gotten the lake under any circumstances. Despite the ridiculous spoiling of Pierre Boulle on this site, I was familiar with the author and read the book as a child so I'm confident that's a get for me... But then, I blanked on Chim Chim Che-ree, so my childhood enthusiasms are not an infallible reservoir...
Slow on chrysalis, I've read about the Blackwells so that blank was painful....Don't know enough about Cabral...