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Every Question James Holzhauer Missed

Can you get the right answer for every question James Holzhauer missed on his original run on Jeopardy!
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Last updated: July 12, 2023
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A 2016 interview with this Batman actor found him looking sad; the internet then made him the meme we deserve
Ben Affleck
A common sight was walking around Monet who worked outdoors, as in a cliff walk in this Channel-side French region
Normandy
Modern auto safety took a big step in ’66 as LBJ signed bills mandating seatbelts & rupture-resistant these
Fuel tanks
At the Montreux Jazz Festival, you might see smoke on the water of this Swiss lake’s shoreline
Lake Geneva
Constitution Day is September 17; this related set is celebrated every December 15
The Bill of Rights
On July 2, 1861 the Union attacked the Confederates near a stone bridge crossing this creek in the first battle of it
Bull Run
Often called the first “war” one of these, Crimean war reporter William Howard Russell preferred “special” one
Correspondent
Frank O’Hara’s most famous poem is “The Day Lady Died,” in which he reads about this jazz singer’s death in 1959
Billie Holiday
This inductee into the Video Hall of Fame sold 17 million copies of a videocassette she released in 1982
Jane Fonda
In 1903 Maurice Garin was its first winner in 94 hours, 33 minutes, 14 seconds
The Tour de France
More than 5,000 of these big deer spend winters at the Wyoming national refuge named for them
Elk
Beethoven & Mozart wrote for this instrument that Ben Franklin created, which he said gave him the greatest personal satisfaction of all his inventions
Glass Harmonica
Permanent press is a process where fabric gets chemically treated to make it resistant to these
Wrinkles
A 1975 N.Y. Daily News headline after this man opposed a federal bailout: him “To City: Drop Dead”
Gerald Ford
19th c. exhibitions saw fire brigades competing either using water, or in one of these, now a term for a practice effort
A dry run
On June 1, 1660 Mary Dyer, one of this religious sect’s “Boston martyrs,” was hanged on Boston Common
The Quakers
The creators of 1943’s “Fancy Free” called each other Lenny & Jerry — Leonard Bernstein & this choreographer
Jerome Robbins
In 2018 this band “didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision, always had high, high hopes
Panic! at the Disco
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In 1916 the great chemist Gilbert Lewis called the central part of an atom this, a word we use for the seed in an apricot pit
The kernel
“Two hit men, a boxer, a crime boss & others meet their fates over the course of two days”
Pulp Fiction
Made in the Vytina region, the first type of this sweetener does not crystallize
Honey
In 2013 there were 114-degree temps in La Rioja, the wine belt of this South American country
Argentina
The portal vein brings venous blood to the liver, while this artery brings oxygenated arterial blood
The hepatic
Stove placement of lower priority items
(Category: Hey, “B.B.” for $200)
The Back burner
The 2018-19 season of auto racing’s World Endurance Championship concludes with the 87th running of this event
The 24 hours of Le mans
In 1965 John Irving entered this Midwest school’s prestigious writers workshop & worked with Kurt Vonnegut
Iowa
It takes a full day to manage this Yosemite peak
Half Dome
Shakespeare’s Portia says, “How far that little” this “throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world”
Candle
The Anthropology award went to a report on “cross-species imitation” between these apes & humans at zoos
Chimpanzees
This train sung of by blues artists got its name from its 12:05 A.M. departure en route to Parchman Penitentiary
The “Midnight Special”
Given this new anesthetic to inhale, Queen Victoria felt little or no pain in 1853 when she delivered her eighth child
Chloroform
You must be a necromancer! Your cacophony is doing this, a noisy idiom that refers to a man in Genesis
Raising Cain
Babe had this player leadership position for only 6 days before being stripped of it for going after a fan in the stands
Captain
You don’t need to howl during the naval watches 4-6 & 6-8, named for this animal — it’s just a figure of speech
A dog
The Boy Next Door, a 21st century novel by Meg Cabot, uses this newer form of correspondence
E-mail
A rugged mountain pass is a gap, & an especially rugged gap is a notch, like this one just east of Burlington
Smugglers’ Notch
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