Final Jeopardy! Challenge, Season 36, December '19

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We need to do another tripleheader.

Monday, December 23

CATEGORY: BRITISH AUTHORS

CLUE: In 2016 the OED celebrated his 100th birthday by adding words connected to his writings, including scrumdiddlyumptious

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Who is Roald Dahl?

Tuesday, December 24

CATEGORY: HISTORIC AMERICAN CITIES

CLUE: Damage from Hurricane Matthew in this city in 2016 revealed a plot of colonist graves from perhaps as long as 430 years ago

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What is St. Augstine?

Wednesday, December 25

CATEGORY: ORGANIZATIONS

CLUE: Founded by students at W&M in 1776; its members include 17 U.S. Presidents, 41 Supreme Court Justices & more than 140 Nobel Laureates

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What is Phi Beta Kappa?
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Missed the city.
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Got the city, missed the other two.
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Ryan wrote: Thu Dec 26, 2019 4:25 pm Ryan 13-5
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Opted for my other author selection, should have taken more time with the city question, and was off on the organization.
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Sorry. Need to close out the last month. It's like totalling up billable hours. A week in MTL can do that to a man.

Thursday, December 26

CATEGORY: 19TH CENTURY HISTORY

CLUE: Wanting more influence in the area he called Latin America, Napoleon III installed an emperor in this country

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What is Mexico? If you know the reason for Cinco de Mayo you knew this.

Friday, December 27

CATEGORY: ART FIRSTS

CLUE: The first French museum to buy this type of painting was the Musée des Beaux Arts in Lyon, in 1901

ANSWER:
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What is Impressionist?

Monday, December 30

CATEGORY: 1950s PEOPLE

CLUE: In a New Yorker profile, he said, "Where I like it is out West in Wyoming, Montana & Idaho, & I like Cuba & Paris"

ANSWER:
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Who is Ernest Hemmingway?

Tuesday, December 31

CATEGORY: BUSINESS & INNOVATION

CLUE: Stuck with 260 tons of unused turkey in late 1953, this company ordered aluminum trays & sold 10 million units of a new item in 1954

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What is Swanson?
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Three of four (missed last one) to get to plus numbers for the month.

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Got #1 and #3

Should have got #2 as I've actually been to that museum.

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Americans knowledge of Mexican history is exceptionally poor (myself included) and I only learned about Napoleon III installing a puppet emperor in Mexico a few weeks ago, which is the only way I got that question. I DID know however that Cinco de Mayo has nothing to do with Mexican Independence Day, which is in the second week of September and I only know that because that is 10 times bigger of a party than Cinco de Mayo amongst actual Mexicans and is an epically fun time if you ever find yourself in an American city full of Mexicans around that time (like Las Vegas, for instance)
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Should have gotten the turkey one, shocked I got the art one. I know nothing about art, but the answer instantly popped into my head. I went through every genre I could think of, but I couldn't shake the correct answer. No idea why that held firm in my mind. Weird how Jeopardy works sometimes, maybe they just overly use that genre (that can't be the correct term) in answers.
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By the way, anyone wanting to avoid spoilers about the Rutter/Jennings/Holzhauer match might want to avoid any stories about offshore betting lines, etc.
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Also a slow finish but I held on?

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