Final Jeopardy! Challenge, January '20 and GOAT Tournament

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I got final jeopardy in the second round!
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My bad. I was really tied up Friday, so four challenges are forthcoming:

Thursday, January 9 Standard Game

CATEGORY: LAW ENFORCEMENT

CLUE: In 1892 Francisca Rojas became the world's first person convicted on the basis of this kind of evidence

ANSWER:
[+] spoiler
What is Fingerprint?

GOAT Game #5

CATEGORY: U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY

CLUE: These 2 now-defunct parties each gave the U.S. 4 presidents in the 19th century

ANSWER:
[+] spoiler
Who are the Democratic-Republicans and the Whigs?

GOAT Game #6

CATEGORY: 21st CENTURY OSCAR WINNERS

CLUE: These 2 foreign-born directors have each won 2 Best Director Oscars, but none of their films has won Best Picture

ANSWER:
[+] spoiler
Who are Ang Lee and Alfonso Cuaron?

Friday, January 10

CATEGORY: CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD

CLUE: This country's 1979 constitution forbids amendments altering its official ideology or religion

ANSWER:
[+] spoiler
What is Iran? (...so far away, couldn't get away...)

Hit Friday's Regular and GOAT #5

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I knew the political one based on my studying for my appearance on the show. Literally, the first question that's come up that the studying helped with.
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Monday, January 13

CATEGORY: THE BIBLE

CLUE: This book of the Bible ends with "Fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys"

ANSWER:
[+] spoiler
What is "Exodus"?
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Ken was incredibly good.
Ryan, during James's original run wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2019 1:37 pm He would crush 99% of the contestant pool 95% of the time. But get the right 2nd player up there that knows how to control the board, figures out the lights, and bets specifically to beat this guy or die trying (and it would help if the 3rd player gets the fuck out of the way) and he's going down.
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Tuesday, January 14

Standard Game

CATEGORY: WORLD GEOGRAPHY

CLUE: About the size of West Virginia, Devon Island is the largest uninhabited island in the world & a possession of this country

ANSWER:
[+] spoiler
What is Canada?

GOAT Game 7

CATEGORY: IT'S ALL GREECE TO ME

CLUE: This area of Greece, home to Pan, is synonymous with a rural paradise; it's a setting for Virgil's shepherd poems the "Eclogues"

ANSWER:
[+] spoiler
What is Arcadia?

GOAT Game 8

CATEGORY: SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES

CLUE: He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy

ANSWER:
[+] spoiler
Who is Iago?

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Fuck Shakespeare and ancient Greece.
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Fuck Shakespeare and ancient Greece. (I'll second Brian's expletive)
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Fuck Ancient Greece.

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Wednesday, January 15

CATEGORY: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

CLUE: Einstein's theory of relativity & Max Planck's quantum theory inspired this book that won a 1963 Newberry Medal

ANSWER:
[+] spoiler
What is A Winkle in Time?
Missed it. And FWIW, that book annoys me. Not that it isn't a good book; I never read it. Easter 2018 the "Easter Bunny" got my daughter that book, and my son Zelda: Breath of the Wild. And neither of them even opened them up. Especially Zelda. Get off the damn Mario games and play that, or otherwise, the Easter Bunny will repossess that post haste.

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Sorry. Need to Triple-Up

Thursday, January 16

CATEGORY: WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY

CLUE: It's the easternmost capital city in Central America

ANSWER:
[+] spoiler
What is Panama City?

Friday, January 17

CATEGORY: DNA MAKES NEWS

CLUE: In 1993 remains of the Russian royal family killed in 1918 were confirmed by comparing their DNA to this member of the British royal family

ANSWER:
[+] spoiler
Who is Prince Philip?

Monday, January 21

CATEGORY: CABINET POSITIONS

CLUE: Of the 4 jobs in George Washington's cabinet, the 2 that have been filled by women in the 230 years since

ANSWER:
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What is the Secretary of State and the Attorney General?

All 3

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ETA: Probably gonna seem like I'm skipping out on this because of me sucking, but I'll be on vacation until the end of the month, so I'll either catch up then or just bag the rest of the month. Just assume I get them all right to get back close to .500
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Got 1st and 3rd.
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Tuesday, January 21

CATEGORY: CLASSIC MOVIES

CLUE: This 1939 film was loosely based on Senator Burton Wheeler, victim of a sham investigation for looking into the Justice Department

ANSWER:
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What is "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"?
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