Final Jeopardy: Authors (9-11-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/11/2020) in the category “Authors” was:

On this woman’s passing in 2019, Oprah Winfrey called her “a magician with language, who understood the power of words”

Today’s show is a rerun of the game that originally aired on 6/12/2020. The players are: Zach Newkirk, Kelly Lake and Matt Napolitano.

Click here for the original recap of this game.

If you know the answers to these random clues, you won’t have any trouble with the 10 clues that have the same response in today’s game:

04-27-1998: CELEBRITY HEADACHES ($300) Paying about 60 grand for the XJ8 model of this British car, you’d think a CD player would be standard

12-28-2007: SHAKESPEARE’S CHARACTERS $1600: This man boasts, “he that knows better how to tame a shrew, now let him speak”

09-21-1999: AMERICAN POETRY ($500) He wrote “Old Ironsides” while a law student

04-04-2008: THE SONGS OF PAUL SIMON ($800) In “Mrs. Robinson” Simon wrote, “A nation turns its lonely eyes to” this man

02-10-2016: SCIENCE TERMS ($400) You’ve got about 300 million alveoli in these organs

11-19-2004: RUSSIAN AROUND ($400) You could say it was horrible that he became the first Russian czar in 1547, but that wouldn’t be quite the right word

03-04-2004: TEXAS CITIES ($1600) This “colorful” city at the southern tip of Texas is home to Texas Southmost College

06-03-2008: WORLD GEOGRAPHY ($400) Sherpas & gurkhas lurka in Pokhara in this country

04-18-2017: GAMBLING ON VEGAS MOVIES ($600) Newly paroled Nicolas Cage had a rough plane ride into Vegas in this 1997 film

10-08-1996: FRUITS ($600) It looks like a pink celery stalk & some call it the “pie plant”