Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19

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Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19

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New month, who dis?

Monday, October 1

CATEGORY: MOUNTAIN RANGES

CLUE: A chain of volcanoes is named for this mountain range where the continental USA's deadliest eruption took place

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What are the Cascades?

Tuesday, October 2

CATEGORY: ANIMAL AKAs

CLUE: It's also called the czar fish

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What is Sturgeon? You know, caviar, Russia.
Here fishie, fishie!

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Yes fish, no volcano.

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Wiki seems to confirm that my fish guess
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Beluga
would have been accepted

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Ryan wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:54 pm Wiki seems to confirm that my fish guess
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Beluga
would have been accepted

Thanks for looking that up, I wasn't going give myself that one...


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How the hell did you know about this site?

https://wikifish.co.za/
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So everyone got the fish one? I almost didn't, then it clicked after about a minute.
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Johnny Carwash wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:40 pm Ryan 2-0
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So everyone got the fish one? I almost didn't, then it clicked after about a minute.
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Should I just quit since I missed the fish one?
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Thursday, October 3:

CATEGORY: PHRASE ORIGINS

CLUE: The OED's first citation for this phrase referring to a region of the U.S. is from a Durant, Oklahoma newspaper in 1936

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What is the Dust Bowl? I vaguely remember them asking this FJ similarly before. Say within the last 5-10 years.
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Shit. It sounds like Alex is having a really rough treatment, which sadly, for his diagnosis, is expected.
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Friday, October 4

CATEGORY: WORLD LITERATURE

CLUE: Some parts were translated from a 15th century Syrian manuscript when this work was introduced to Europe around 1700

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What is 1,001 (Arabian) Nights?
Missed that one.

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I wrote a few episodes of an animated series based on "1,001 Nights" Here's the preview for one of them...
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Pruitt wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:59 pm Ryan 4-0
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I wrote a few episodes of an animated series based on "1,001 Nights" Here's the preview for one of them...
Got the first three. Didn't post along last month because I was something like 1-18 or so.
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Monday, October 7

CATEGORY: OBSERVANCES

CLUE: Washington made the very first presidential proclamation in response to a request for "a day of public" this

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What is Thanksgiving?

Interesting coincidence coming on the heels of the news of Turkey's invasion.
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They should have had that question on the show that airs 10/14 in honor Alex.
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Tuesday, October 8

CATEGORY: LAST WORDS

CLUE: In 1876 in the Dakotas this American said, "The old duffer broke me on the last hand"

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Who is Wild Bill Hicock?
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