Final Jeopardy: Literary Terms (10-1-20)

Here are 13 more triple stumpers from the 10/1/2020 Jeopardy! game:

EVERY DAY’S A HOLIDAY ($800) August 13 is a special day for these folks, including Barack Obama, Paul McCartney & Clayton Kershaw

($1000) Held in October at the end of the week, this alliterative day celebrates Mary Shelley & her famous creation

THAT’S MY JAM! ($800) My favorite type of this torte, named for a city in Austria, is the one made with raspberry jam

NEW TO THE OED ($200) This zero-shaped bread product, now as a verb meaning to beat someone 6-0 in a set of tennis

($1000) This 5-letter type of kosher, for food prepared strictly in accordance with Jewish dietary law

YANKEE STADIUM ($400) All rise! On June 11, 2017, a ball landed in the bleachers 495′ from home plate, off the bat of this 6’7″ Yankee

($600) It wasn’t just baseball at the old stadium; this Frank Gifford team moved there in 1956 & promptly won a championship

($800) Stadium swan songs include this immortal center fielder‘s, getting the Yanks’ only hit off Luis Tiant Sept. 25, 1968

INVENTORS & INVENTIONS ($1200) In the tradition of Hungarian inventive geniuses like Mr. Rubik, two Hungarian scientists designed the Gömböc to prove that there can be a three-dimensional object with only one stable and one unstable point of this (Also see *Note in spoiler below)

MOVIE THRILLERS ($400) In “Marathon Man” Laurence Olivier plays war criminal Szell, who breaks out the tools he used as one of these

GNAT GEO ($2000) The destructive fruit fly Ceratitis capitata is better known as this, after a body of water

E 1-2-3-4-5 ($800) Musical rate of movement indicated by adagio or presto

($1600) A small flock of quail

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues —
($200) Recent speeches by this young Swedish climate activist are collected in “No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference”
($400) “The Lost World” was Michael Crichton’s sequel to this bestseller
($600) He gave a behind-the-scenes look at his career in “The Mamba Mentality: How to Play”
($800) 1986’s “Red Storm Rising” was his second novel & his second No. 1 bestseller
($1000) In the ’90s this newsman had a nonfiction bestseller with “The Greatest Generation” about the men & women of WWII

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