Final Jeopardy: Phrases from Literature (10-19-20)

Here are 13 more triple stumpers from the 10/19/2020 Jeopardy! game:

ZOOM ($1000) Guitarist Billy Zoom rocks out with the pioneering L.A. punk band known by this near-the-end-of-the-alphabet letter

MILITARY RANK LANGUAGE ($800) Miscellaneous

THE AMERICAN FLAG ($1000) After Kentucky & this New England state were added to the Union, the flag had 15 stripes for awhile

NOVEL ($600) The new adaptive type of this alliterative auto feature slows you down when the car ahead of you brakes

($800) Made from a resin call Croslite, these trendy shoes have done designer collaborations with Kiss, Barneys & Ruby Rose

POE “M” ($400) This 2-letter abbreviation precedes “Found in a Bottle” in the title of a Poe tale

($600) In the title of a Poe story, “In the Rue” is in between these 2 words

($800) The narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” asks, “Why will you say that I am” this? Read it and find out

INSIDE “MAN” ($800) Manumit is a synonym of this liberating word

($2000) To reverse a previous military order

PRIMATES ($1200) These monkeys (image) normally live in the tropics of the Americas, but in 1959 one rode into space and returned safely

($1600) As its appearance may help you guess, in the tarsier this cortex is extremely large, especially the V1 section

TRIANGULAR ($1200) The craft of architectural sketching, or the type of triangle used in the craft

The players got all the clues in MOVIES PERFECT FOR A MATINEE, except the $1600 one (*):
($400) Tom Cruise was Cole Trickle, a driver on the southern stock-car circuit, in this action flick
($800) Spoiler alert: at the end of this film, after surviving a break-up, Joseph Gordon-Levitt meets a girl named Autumn
($1200) Al Pacino robs a bank & takes hostages in this 1975 film that sounds perfect for an August matinee
*($1600) She was a regular good luck charm as Jinx Johnson in “Die Another Day”
($2000) A quote from this 1951 sci-fi classic: “Gort! Klaatu barada nikto”

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