20th CENTURY PEOPLE
5/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In a PS to an April 12, 1945 letter, he wrote, "this was dictated before the world fell in on me... what a blow it was, but--I must meet it"
5/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
FRENCH LITERATURE
5/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
An article about improvements in transportation, including the opening of the Suez Canal, inspired this 1873 novel
5/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AMERICAN WOMEN
5/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Referring to a 1955 incident, she said, "our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it"
5/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
ART SUBJECTS
5/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1816 Francisco Goya published a series of 33 etchings called "La Tauromaquia", depicting this activity
5/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
DISNEY SONGS
5/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This 1964 song was inspired when one of the writer's sons took the oral polio vaccine
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Around the World in 80 Days
Rosa Parks
bullfighting
A Spoonful of Sugar
The players were correct on each of the extra clues.
'60s BOOKS & AUTHORS $2000: Before taking off with "Airport", he checked in with "Hotel"
AFRICA $2000: Gaborone is the capital of this African country formerly known as Bechuanaland
HISTORY'S ODDS & ENDS $800: You could have fun, fun, fun on this first superhighway, opened in Berlin in 1921
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Arthur Hailey
Botswana
Autobahn