Here are 10 clues from the 10-8-2018 Jeopardy! match.

TRAVEL BOOKS ($200) Bill Bryson’s “In a Sunburned Country’ takes us to this continent with its unique animals & friendly people too

($400) Modern travel book writing got a boost in 1977 with Bruce Chatwin’s account of his trip “In” this southern Argentine region

($600) “Letters from Egypt” is a book of this future British nurse’s letters while traveling on the Nile in 1850

($800) He wrote about a bus trip & other kinds of trips in 1968’s “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”

($1000) Alfred Lansing wrote “Endurance”, about this man’s 1915 escape from Antarctica

The players got all those clues and they got all these in 2018 HAPPENINGS:

($400) A reported $600,000 fell out the back of a Brink’s truck on the interstate in this Indiana Capital, causing 1 or 2 traffic issues
($800) In the highest-scoring FIFA World Cup in 52 years, this country prevailed 4-2
($1200) In 2018 this “Sex & The City” actress made a bid for New York governor
($1600) Caught up in a sex scandal, the Swedish Academy announced it would not give this Nobel Prize in 2018
($2000) This major figure of Iran-Contra– actually, a Lt. Colonel figure– was named president of the NRA

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