Jeopardy #8579

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At the University of Chicago & other schools, the grading system consists of 5 letters, 3 that can have + added & these 2 that can't

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These long, baggy men's knickers were popular on 1920s golf courses

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Britain's eleven plus exams are basically entrance tests to admits kids to this kind of school that not our writers, obviously

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At bell Labs Bjarne Stroustrup designed this programming language released in 1985

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In French the word plus means "more", as in this expression that begins, "plus ça change" (a translation is fine)

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Midas got the wish he later regretted by being kind to Silenus, one of these faun-like beings

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In "The Lost Hero" by this adapter of myths for young adults, Midas turns Leo & Piper into gold statues

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"Better safe than" this

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It "is always greener on the other side"

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2 bad choices: "between the devil &" this location

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It "doesn't fall far from the tree"

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It's where the "proof of the pudding" is

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Popular in the South, chess pie is basically this pie without those big brown nuts

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This Spanish dessert with a 4-letter name is custard with a layer of caramel sauce

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A line from "The Godfather": "Leave the gun, take" this dessert

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Marshmallows, almonds & chocolate ice cream pave the way to make this classic flavor

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What the French call an omelette norvégienne is what Americans call this dessert

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Known for her scat singing, she received 14 Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award in 1967

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This sax great's last public engagement was on March 5, 1955 at Birdland, a New York City club named for him

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She honed her unique style singing in Harlem nightclubs

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Here's a bit of "So What", the lead track from this trumpeter's 1959 album "Kind of Blue"

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Seen here tickling the ivories, he got his famous nickname from an announcer who equated him with jazz aristocrats like Duke Ellington

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(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Born in 1809 into a frontier family, young Abe Lincoln had only one year of schooling, but read the Bible, Shakespeare, & learned logic from "The Elements" of this ancient Greek mathematician

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(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Lincoln was a struggling 30-year-old lawyer when he began wooing this 21-year-old, & though she came from a prominent family & had many suitors, eventually won her hand in marriage

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(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) Lincoln grew frustrated with many of his commanders but with none more so than this general who did a brilliant job of readying the Union Army to fight but proved reluctant to commit it to battle

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(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) At the White House on August 10, 1863, Lincoln met for the first time with this man to discuss the treatment of thousands of Black soldiers recently inducted into the Union army

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(Doris Kearns Goodwin presents the clue.) On April 4, 1865, Lincoln made a daring & dangerous visit to this newly captured capital, walking its still-burning streets to the cheers of jubilant former enslaved people

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In 1969 Francisco Franco closed the border with this territory

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For 10 weeks in 1982, Britain & Argentina battled over this territory

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With 2 territories on it, the U.K. joins Turkey & Greece as countries with influence on this Mediterranean island

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Point Christian & Bounty Bay are features of this South Pacific island territory

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In short, the Somers Islands is a former name of this British possession in the Atlantic

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It precedes "& Dime" in the title of a 1992 comedy with Wallace Shawn & C. Thomas Howell

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Meryl Streep (2011), Leonardo DiCaprio (1998) & Robert Downey Jr. (over & over) have starred in movies with this element in the title

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Helen Mirren is trying to recover a portrait by Gustav Klimt in the fact-based movie "Woman in" this

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Bradley Cooper is a bipolar man looking to reconnect with his ex in this 2012 film

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"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops", Cary Grant says in a 1944 comedy about his aunts' use of this

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In 1960 Jane Goodall saw that the animal she'd dubbed David Greybeard, this type of primate, made & used tools

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In 218 B.C. Hannibal left Spain with at least 37 of these animals; it's said the one-tusked Surus lasted the longest

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The western lowland gorilla with this repetitive name, known for using sign language, died at age 46 in 2018

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Many British govt. offices have cats called "Chief" this rodent-ridder; Palmerston worked in the foreign office 2016-2020

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A German Shepherd named Trakr found the last survivor in the Manhattan area dubbed this after 9/ 11

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The hardest tissue in your body, this tooth-topper predominately contains calcium & phosphate

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Known for its hardness, durability & capacity to take a high polish, this heavy, black wood is big in cabinets & knife handles

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This brand with a biblical character in its name offers hardside luggage with a polycarbonate composite shell

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Rubies & sapphires rate a 9 on this scale of hardness named for a German mineralogist

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This white substance in the outer skeleton of crabs is used to bind dyes & as a strengthening agent for paper

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Emily Brontë says it flat out in Chapter 1: this title place "is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling

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Reasonably sure that people would like another story about dinosaurs, he published "The Lost World" in 1995

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This Alabama woman was honored by President Bush for her "outstanding contribution to America's literary tradition" in 2007

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His 1854 book began, "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods"

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O! This author of "O Pioneers" was featured on a stamp in 1973

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A weather report

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An excursion or raid

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If you tolerate a lot of nonsense, you're showing great this

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Maintain this part of a horse's mane or it can cause eye irritation

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Verily, this archaic adverb means "in truth"

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This character who has been on the air for more than 50 years is only 6 1/2 years old