Final Jeopardy: 21st Century Oscar Winners (1-29-20)

Here are 2 more triple stumpers from the 1/29/2020 Jeopardy! game:

STATES’ BIG EMPLOYERS ($800) More than 35,000 folks in New Jersey work at Wakefern, a co-op with about 350 of these including ShopRite

SIN-OPSIS ($800) In a Jeffrey Eugenides novel, each of the lovely Lisbon sisters commits this, which a priest in the book calls a mortal sin

The players got all the $1,000 clues in the first round:

THE WORLD ALMANAC 2020: In 1950 the U.S. manufactured more than 75% of the world’s these; in 2018, 12%
STATES’ BIG EMPLOYERS: The hospital system of this university known for its school of medicine employs 31,000 Marylanders
TRAIN OF THOUGHT: Trouble ahead, trouble behind, this Cannonball Express engineer & folk hero sacrificed himself in a crash in 1900 to save many lives
A LITTLE ALLITERATION: In 1922 London, over 50 companies were making this mechanical & musical wonder with no fingers on the keys
MONROE: Though he wrote against slavery, Monroe freed only 1 of his own slaves & went along with the 1820 deal admitting this slave state
DOCTORIN’: What a “gas”! This type of doctor specializes in the stomach, the intestines & their ailments

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Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — PETTY RHYMES:
($400) Perspiring
($800) Festive paper pieces that are tossed in the air
($1200) Rubble or Boop
($1600) Using a pot of the same name, it’s the ritual cleaning of the nasal sinuses
($2000) NASA acronym for alien-seeking

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