Final Jeopardy! Challenge, Season 36 September '19

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duff wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:10 pm Pruitt 7-4
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Tuesday, 9/24


CATEGORY: AMERICAN COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

CLUE: The 1862 Morrill Act gave states federal acreage to sell for school funds, leading to the creation of 69 of these

ANSWER:
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What are Land-Grant Colleges? Nice.
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Can I get odds on the writers purposefully digging around for a question that had 69 in it to drum up more memes?

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Ryan wrote: Wed Sep 25, 2019 2:17 pm Can I get odds on the writers purposefully digging around for a question that had 69 in it to drum up more memes?
Category: NICE
$100: This year's baseball season saw the "Miracle" Mets upset the heavily favored Orioles in the World Series
$200: Canadian rocker Bryan Adams reached #5 on the Billboard charts with this 1985 hit
$300: The original segment of this highway runs from Indianapolis to Port Huron, Michigan
$400: This zodiac sign, falling from late June to late July, is symbolized by a stylized representation of a crab's pincers
$500: This versatile offensive lineman snagged three Super Bowl rings playing for Washington and Denver

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I'm assuming "State Colleges" wouldn't get the points... Judges?
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One man's opinion, but I think you had to have "land grant" in there.
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brian wrote: Wed Sep 25, 2019 3:43 pm
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One man's opinion, but I think you had to have "land grant" in there.
Dang! Makes sense though.
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Wednesday, 9/25

CATEGORY: NATURAL GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES

CLUE: Timely for 2018, in 1866 Mark Twain wrote of this landmark's "sputtering jets of fire" & "heat from Pele's furnaces"

ANSWER:
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What is Mt. Kilauea?
I missed this one in every way possible.

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Tonight's question is a five way tiebreaker!
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Pruitt wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2019 4:52 pm Tonight's question is a five way tiebreaker!
Still is!

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Let's close out the month!

Friday, September 27:

CATEGORY: EPITAPHS

CLUE: From his own 1898 poem, the epitaph of this Irish-born man ends, "His mourners will be outcast men, & outcasts always mourn"

ANSWER:
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Who is Oscar Wilde?

Monday, September 30:

CATEGORY: SYMBOLIC OBJECTS

CLUE: To complete one of its regular trips, in 1948 it took a boat across the English Channel; in 1952 it took a plane en route to Finland

ANSWER:
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What is the Olympic Torch?
Hit them both, so

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The hell with the Irish!
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