19th CENTURY NOVELS
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Ambrose Bierce, a Civil War veteran, said of this 1895 book, the author "knows nothing of war, yet he is drenched in blood"
1/29 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
20th CENTURY DISASTERS
1/29 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
On the radio in 1937 this 3-word exclamation came after "the smoke and the flames now...not quite to the mooring mast"
1/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WOMEN WRITERS
1/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
One of her circle described her as "a lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds"
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FEMALE SINGERS
1/31 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In the 1990s this New York native had 8 of her first 10 Billboard Top 40 hits reach No. 1
2/1 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
2/1 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
For a while in the 1840s, the French wanted to name this new discovery "Le Verrier" & the British wanted "Oceanus"
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
"Oh, the humanity!"
Dorothy Parker
Mariah Carey
Neptune
The extra clues have a triple stumper, a correct DD, and a clue rebounded correctly.
RUSSIAN LITERATURE $1200: Dr. Zhivago falls in love with this woman, but oops! They're both married
1960s AMERICA $1200 box Daily Double: He formed a Harvard psychedelic drug research program; he was dismissed by Harvard in 1963
NEW YORK STATE OF MIND $1000: This Finger Lakes city shares a name with the home of Odysseus
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Timothy Leary
Ithaca