Final Jeopardy: Islands (6-26-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question in the category “Islands” was:

650 miles off the U.S., it was the site of a 1609 shipwreck of colonists bound for Jamestown that may have inspired “The Tempest”

Today’s players: 2x champ Eric R. Backes, from Round Rock, TX; Rob Williams, from Portland, OR; and Ellen Clark, from Virginia Beach, VA.

This is a rerun from 2/12/2019. The full recap is over here

Here is a link to the weekly recap with all the FJ! clues from that week

Here are some more clues from other Eric R. Backes games:

A CLASSIC SETTING ($800) Gustav von Aschenbach leaves Munich for Italy in this Thomas Mann novella whose title is a spoiler

VEGANS & VEGETARIAN ($1600) He said, “It certainly seemed proper that the author of ‘The Jungle’ should be a vegetarian, so I became one”

THE IDES OF FEBRUARY ($600) This future First Lady was born in Independence, Missouri February 13, 1885

ODD NAMED ANIMALS ($1600) For their habit of walking on water, basilisk lizards are also named after him

QUOTES OF NOTE ($200) This female Muppet once wisely quipped, “Never eat more than you can lift”

TV REBOOTS ($1600) The 2019 reboot of this alien drama has added “, New Mexico” to the title

SPACE SCIENCE HISTORY ($2000) In 1997 this spacecraft used airbags to land on Mars, then sent the Sojourner rover on its way

IT WAS SO FUNNY ($600) In this film, Amanda Seyfried, one of the Plastics, says to Lindsay Lohan, “I’m kind of psychic…it’s like I have ESPN or something”

PRESIDENT’S DAY ($1600) A 2009 Illinois resolution made every February 6 this 20th century President’s day

FRANZ KAFKA ($1200) Kafka was a great admirer of this author of “Madame Bovary”, calling him one of his literary “blood relatives”