OBSERVANCES
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Washington made the very first presidential proclamation in response to a request for "a day of public" this
10/8 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LAST WORDS
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In 1876 in the Dakotas this American said, "The old duffer broke me on the last hand"
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HIT 1980s ALBUMS
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This American singer-songwriter briefly landed on the U.N.'s apartheid blacklist for his 1986 multi-platinum album
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ENGLISH HISTORY
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In 1600 a royal charter authorized it to set forth to "parts of Asia and Africa" in search of "trade and traffic"
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AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS
10/11 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1963 the Pulitzer Advisory Board vetoed his controversial play & gave no award; he would go on to win 3 Pulitzers
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Bill Hickock
Paul Simon
British East India Company
Edward Albee
The extra clues have triple stumpers sandwiching one a player got correct.
VIDEO GAME-POURRI $1000: Of the 4 ghosts in the original English version of the Pac-Man game, the one that doesn't rhyme with the others
WOMEN COMPOSERS $2000: A composer in her own right, Clara (nee Wieck) also edited the collected works of this German composer, her husband
LITERARY CHARACTERS $1600: 12-year-old Frankie Addams wants to go with her brother & his new wife on their honeymoon in this Carson McCullers novel
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Robert Schumann
The Member of the Wedding