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Jeopardy Questions : Jan 7 - 18

The Blizzard of 2011 put me a little behind on my Jeopardy question postings. Please see below for the questions starting Jan 7 - today and let me know if you’d like me to post the corresponding “questions”:)

January 7
category: Thirteen Letter Words
value: $1200
answer: If you weighed up to 126 pounds, you’d be as light as this class of boxer.

January 8
category: Thirteen Letter Words
value: $2000
answer: A rubber-treatment process, or turning into Mr. Spock’s Kin.

January 9
category:US Congress
value: Final Jeopardy
answer:This State has the largest congressional district in area

January 10
category: Elemental, my dear
value: $200
answer: Atomic Number 28; if you don’t know one pound of pure this can be drawn into a wire eighty miles long, you’re not worth a plugged one.

January 11
category: Elemental, my dear
value: $600
answer: Listen, this reddish-orange metal first used around 5000 bc, you’ll never take me alive, see?!

January 12
category:Elemental, my dear
value: $1000
answer: Fly high with this colorless, otorless, and tasteless gas, atomic number 2.

January 13
category: Mountains
value:$400
answer: On May 1, 1963, Jim Wittaker became the first American, and tenth person, to reach the summit of this mountain.

January 14
category: Mountains
value: $1200
answer:This country’s highest peak, Pico de Orizaba, lied on the border of the states of Veracruz and Puebla.

January 15
category: Mountains
value: $2000
answer: Like Kilimanjaro, this snowcapped peak can often be seen from high-rise buildings in Nairobi about 110 miles away.

January 16 
category: The 1800s
value: Final Jeopardy
answer: France got this territory back in 1800, and turned around and sold it to the US a few years later.

January 17
category: Speak in Hawaiian
value: $200 
answer: You say “Goodbye” I say “Hello”, but it can also mean “Love”

January 18
category: Speak in Hawaiian
value: $600
answer: Sharing its name with one of the islands, it’s also a veranda or roofed patio.

How’d you do???