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

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

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