Final Jeopardy: Children’s Literature (1-15-20)

Here are 8 triple stumpers from the 1/15/2020 Jeopardy! game:

LITERARY MASHUPS ($200) “The Prince of Santini” (first book) & (second book)

TEAM AMERICA ($1000) For the Winter Olympics, luge has its own governing body, while bobsled shares a governing body with this similar sport

U.S. REPRESENTATIVES ($1200) 1/53rd of California’s House Delegation is this Intelligence Committee Chairman (image)

COMPOSERS ($1200) One of England’s most beloved tunes is the one by Hubert Parry named for this faraway Mideast city

($2000) Composer Georg Philipp Telemann was godfather to this composing son of J.S. Bach, hence the Philipp in the young Bach’s name

WHAT TYPE OF MACHINE AM I? ($1600) Vanguard I, Proba-3

($2000) Chicago Pile-1

NETFLIX & CHILL ($400) “Polar” stars Mads Mikkelsen as a retired one of these professionals, who has relocated to a snowier clime

The players missed these 4 clues in BORDER RIVERS (the $1600 one was a Daily Double):

($400) These 2 rivers form parts of the border between the U.S. & Mexico
($800) The Paz River separates Guatemala & El Salvador before flowing into this body of water
($1200) The Romaine River is a small part of Canada’s longest provincial boundary between Quebec and this vast mainland region
($2000) With as many sets of double letters as the Mississippi, this river forms about half the Alabama-Georgia border

ANSWERS: show

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues– BACKRONYMS:

($400) SAD says it all when it comes to being a backronym for this type of depression
($800) Named for an anesthesiologist, an APGAR score for newborns measures appearance, pulse, grimace, activity & this
($1200) This boy-and-tiger team formed the club called “Get Rid of Slimy Girls”, using the last letter in “Girls” to form the backronym “GROSS”
($1600) Really, 007– SPECTRE is Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge & this blackmail synonym
($2000) Named for a child kidnapped in 1996, an Amber Alert is short for “America’s Missing: Broadcast” these two words

ANSWERS: show