U.S. CITIES
5/7 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This city, also the title of a film that won 2 Oscars, was named for a businessman known for 19th c. transportation
5/8 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LONDON LANDMARKS
5/8 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Built in the 1990s, it's the only permanent structure permitted in London with a thatched roof since the Great Fire of 1666
5/9 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
OPERA
5/9 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
A 12-minute piece of music from this opera depicts Alpine dawn, a storm & the calm, & ends in a section called a galop
5/10 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WOMEN WRITERS
5/10 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
On her 2012 passing this Oscar nominee was described as “an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold” (but funnier)
5/11 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
U.S. POLITICAL HISTORY
5/11 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
President Madison is credited with the 1st of these 2-word actions; he didn’t sign an 1812 bill after Congress had adjourned
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Globe Theatre
William Tell
Nora Ephron
pocket veto
The extra clues have a triple stumper, one correct, and one rebounded correctly.
MEMORABLE MOVIE SCENES $1000: 1925: In the Yukon, a starving Charlie Chaplin dines on one of his shoes, laces & all
POLITICAL TERMS $1600: Senate Rule 22 is named for this, the only formal procedure for ending a filibuster
GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS $600: Chief Bromden, a Native American who feigns muteness, is the narrator of this Ken Kesey novel
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
cloture
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest