Final Jeopardy! Challenge September 2016

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Season 33 begins now.

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Monday September 12, 2016

Category: ASIAN ISLANDS

Clue: PHUKET, THE LARGEST ISLAND OF THIS COUNTRY, HAS REGAINED ITS TOURISM INDUSTRY AFTER A NATURAL DISASTER IN 2004
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Where is Thailand? Siam is also acceptable, cuz I like The King and I..
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Nice, a warm-up question.
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Talked myself out of the right answer. BSFGF got it though.
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Dammitt. I missed an answer I knew because I had a brain fart.


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My best friend growing up lived on Phuket at the time, and AFAIK still lives there. He is still in Thailand, for sure. Fortunately, he lives on high land and was safe, but damn, I can't imagine what life was like afterwards. He did get word to his parents that Giff was OK.
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Tuesday September 13, 2016

Category: 19th CENTURY MILITARY MEN

Clue: IN 1895 HE WROTE TO HIS FAMILY THAT WITH "SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH" HE WOULD "DISCOVER THE TRUTH…ON THE TRAGIC AFFAIR"
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Who was Captain Alfred Dreyfus? Didn't hurt that I happened to crack a book by Zola last night (Nana, which has nothing to do with the Dreyfus affair, but Zola did.)
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Back in the win column.


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Wednesday September 14, 2016

Category: 20th CENTURY SCIENCE TERMS

Clue: THIS 4-LETTER WORD WAS INTRODUCED IN LONDON IN 1905 BY DR. H.A. DES VOEUX OF THE COAL SMOKE ABATEMENT SOCIETY
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What is 'smog'?First decade of my life was in Los Angeles, man.
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Is it "work" or "word"?
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WORD. sorry, fixed it.
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I guess I should have gotten it, but that's as much of a science term as "leg" or "yellow"

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Pretty easy with the way it was written.
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I thought that was pretty easy.

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A_B protests the questions as [insert answer] doesn't exist, it is a hoax forced on us by the Liberals and Chinese.

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A_B wrote:
(I'd protest only that we need to study it more!)
While denying all funding to such studies and abolishing all agencies that may be involved in performing, overseeing, verifying or acting on such studies?
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The Sybian wrote:
A_B wrote:
(I'd protest only that we need to study it more!)
While denying all funding to such studies and abolishing all agencies that may be involved in performing, overseeing, verifying or acting on such studies?

I never said those things.
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Thursday September 15, 2016

Category: DANTE'S INFERNO

Clue: DURING THE JOURNEY, DANTE ENCOUNTERS HOMER, SOCRATES & CICERO, WHO BIDE THEIR TIME IN THE FIRST CIRCLE, AKA THIS
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What is limbo?
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