ANCIENT GREEKS
5/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Plutarch quotes this man who sentenced many to death: "Small ones deserve that, and I have no higher for the greater crimes"
5/18 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
ANIMALS
5/18 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
German settlers in Texas called this animal "Panzerschwein"
5/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
MIDDLE EASTERN GEOGRAPHY
5/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Of the 6 countries that border the Red Sea, it's last alphabetically
5/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
COLONIAL AMERICA
5/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Milestones along the eastern end of the Mason-Dixon line were marked on either side with the crests of these 2 men
5/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AMERICAN AUTHORS
5/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The year before his 1809 birth, his parents acted in "King Lear", leading scholars to believe he was named for a "Lear" character
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
armadillo
Yemen
Lord Baltimore & William Penn
Edgar Allan Poe
The extra clues have one correct by the players, a requested missed Daily Double and a triple stumper.
WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1600: A gateway to central Asia, this strategic pass between Kabul & Peshawar has also been a gateway for invaders
LITERARY ANTAGONISTS $1600 box DD: The blind monk Jorge of Buroos is the antagonist in this novel set in a Benedictine monastery
BATTLES $2000: Kamikaze attacks were first used during the October 1944 battle of this gulf in the Central Philippines
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
The Name of the Rose
Leyte Gulf