Final Jeopardy: British Writers (1-21-21)

Here are 12 more triple stumpers from the 1/21/2021 Jeopardy! game:

1-LETTER STOCK SYMBOLS ($1000) S: formerly the symbol for Sears, later for this telecom company

SHAPELY SPEECH ($1000) Ranging from Myanmar to Laos to Thailand, Southeast Asia’s major opium-producing region is called this

A STREAM OF TV ($400) Amazon Prime’s “Tales from” here isn’t set in Chicago but in an experimental physics lab in Ohio

($600) This 2020 Hulu film riffs on “Groundhog Day”, with Andy Samberg & Cristin Milioti repeating the same day

($1000) The Apple TV+ show “Dickinson” stars this “True Grit” actress as the title poet

HISTORIC COUPLES ($800) They’re the couple seen here, captured in separate portraits

($2000) The 1614 marriage of Pocahontas & John Rolfe assured peace for years between this colony & the Powhatan Indians

AMPHIBIANS ($400) The axolotl is unusual in retaining features such as external gills from this young stage called a tadpole in other amphibians

CANADIAN PLACES ($1600) A city in New Jersey has the same name as this province, Canada’s only officially bilingual one

ALMOST RHYMES WITH PURPLE ($2000) Playtex was once a big name in this undergarment that has mostly given way to shapewear

5 MORE “C”S OF DIAMONDS ($1200) A diamond is this type of solid, usually with 8 faces

($1000) Giant gem seller De Beers has been called “the most successful” this modern commerce cooperative arrangement

Sneak Peek clues — POP CULTURE PRINCESSES
($400) The clue stayed on the board
($800) Clad in leather with body armor, Xena was this kind of title princess on 1990s TV
($1200) Buttercup is the title betrothed in this tale of page & screen
($1600) “Once upon a December” was a song in this Broadway musical whose title is the name of a Romanov princess
($2000) In a ballet, this beautiful princess loved by Prince Siegfried is transformed into a swan by the sorcerer Rothbart

ANSWERS: show