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James Knew 32/33 Of These Final Jeopardy Questions, And I'll Be Impressed If You Can Get Just 8

Jeopardy: All Of James' Final Jeopardy Questions

Disclaimer: You DON'T need to answer in the form of a question but you can if you want to.

U.S. BODIES OF WATER:  
The Jordan, Bear & Weber Rivers deposit over a million tons of minerals into it annually, much of that Chloride & Sodium

EUROPEAN CAPITALS:  
Remove 2 letters from the 6-letter name of this capital and you get the name of a capital from a neighboring country

HOLLYWOOD HISTORY:  
On June 6, 2018 the Chinese Theatre dimmed its lights to honor Jerry Maren, who lived to the greatest age of any of this 1939 group

PHYSICS TERMS:  
Ironically, it's a metaphor meaning a huge step forward, but this 2-word process only occurs on a subatomic scale

EUROPEAN HISTORY:  
In 2000 the Russian Orthodox church canonized 7 members of this family, 82 years after their deaths

Fun fact: This is the ONLY Final Jeopardy question James missed!

CELEBRITIES:  
This inductee into the Video Hall of Fame sold 17 million copies of a videocassette she released in 1982

LITERARY ADAPTATIONS:  
The director of the 2018 TV version of this 1953 classic said, yes, books were harmed in the making of this motion picture

STAMPS:  
Living people are rarely seen on a stamp, but in July 1945 the USPS issued one depicting this military event

INTERNATIONAL NEWS:  
In 2014 this 10,000-square-mile region moved its clocks forward 2 hours to Moscow Standard Time

20th CENTURY  
LITERARY CHARACTERS:  
His first name refers to the ancient district in which you'd find the Greek capital; his surname is a bird

COMIC BOOK SUPERHEROES: During his years with the Justice League of America, this superhero sometimes used the secret identity "C. King"

BRITISH MONARCHS:  
A "VI" has followed these 3 royal names of English kings

19th CENTURY BRITS:  
In a poem Lord Byron, a lover of Greece, calls this diplomat & fellow lord a "plunderer"  


AMERICAN HISTORY:  
On May 1, 1869 these 2 men met at the White House, 4 years & 3 weeks after a more historic meeting between them

GEOGRAPHIC NICKNAMES: This term for an area of the Atlantic originated in 1964 in Argosy, a pulp magazine

THE ELEMENTS:  
Oddly, mining of this rare earth element with a geographic name, atomic no. 63, is mostly in Asia & with some in South America & Australia

19th CENTURY NOVELS:  
The title character of this 1841 novel says he got his name because he kills bucks & does, but not people

ORGANIZATIONS:  
The oldest of these business booster groups, formed in Marseille in 1599, uses "de" instead of "of" in the name

EUROPEAN CITIES:  
Founded, according to tradition, in 11 B.C., this former capital lies about halfway between Paris & Berlin

THE KING JAMES BIBLE:  
Of the 4 riders mentioned in Revelation 6, only this one is explicitly named

AMERICAN PLAYS:  
A character in this 1944 play is said to be like a piece in her own collection, "too exquisitely fragile to move from the shelf"

WORDS OF THE 2000s:  
In 2008 Time Magazine described this new practice as "one part social networking and one part capital accumulation"

NAME THE FRENCH AUTHOR:  
"I am making myself liable to Articles 30 & 31 of the law of 29 July regarding the press, which make libel a punishable offense"

POETRY & THE MOVIES:  
Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars

19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY:  
In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863

JAZZ CLASSICS:  
In one account, this song began as directions written out for composer Billy Strayhorn to Duke Ellington's home in Harlem

AROUND THE USA:  
Astronomy buffs visit Idaho for the USA's first dark sky reserve; oddly, part of it is this resort area with a bright name

GAMES:  
When this game was introduced in 1860, it had squares like Intemperance & Poverty & if you hit the Suicide square your game was over

ANIMATED CHARACTERS:  
This cartoon character was based on a character in the educational comic "The Intertidal Zone"

19th CENTURY NOVELS:  
The author of this tale dedicated the novel to British philosopher William Godwin, her father

NATIONAL ANTHEMS:  
Its anthem was adopted in 1947 to replace one by Joseph Haydn that had been tainted by association with Nazis  


OSCAR-NOMINATED FAMILIES: It's the last name of Alfred, Lionel, David, Emil, Thomas & Randy, who with 90 nominations, are the most Oscar-nominated family

SHAKESPEARE'S TIME:  
The line "a great reckoning in a little room" in "As You Like It" is usually taken to refer to this author's premature death

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James Knew 32/33 Of These Final Jeopardy Questions, And I'll Be Impressed If You Can Get Just 8

Jeopardy! champ James Holzhauer had a very historic 33-game run on the show that recently came to an end.

In his time on the show, James only missed ONE Final Jeopardy question. Do you think you can do the same? Good luck!

Special thanks to J-Archive and Final Jeopardy for documenting them all so diligently!

James Knew 32/33 Of These Final Jeopardy Questions, And I'll Be Impressed If You Can Get Just 8

Jeopardy! champ James Holzhauer had a very historic 33-game run on the show that recently came to an end.

In his time on the show, James only missed ONE Final Jeopardy question. Do you think you can do the same? Good luck!

Special thanks to J-Archive and Final Jeopardy for documenting them all so diligently!

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