Final Jeopardy: Contemporary Authors (10-19-21)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 10/19/2021 Jeopardy! game:

FORTUNE 500 FORTUNES ($200) Despite lackluster sales of the Chevy Bolt, this company had a 2020 value of more than $35 billion

($1000) This petroleum company abbreviated VLO is VLO’d at more than $22 billion

PART OF DARKNESS ($600) Elated or eager, or more California colloquially… really cool, dude!

ANNUS HORRIBILIS ($1000) Called “The Civil War’s Bloodiest Day”, Sept. 17 of this year saw the Battle of Antietam, with 23,000 casualties

WORLD GEOGRAPHY ($1200) A 2010 agreement between Russia & this country splits control of the Barents Sea nearly in half

($2000) The alliterative lion of this Swiss city commemorates Swiss guards who died in the French Revolution

POLITICAL NICKNAMES ($1200) “Snarlin’ Arlen” was the nickname of Arlen Specter, a long-time senator from this state

($2000) Harkening back to the Ottoman Empire, “Sultan” is the nickname critics have given this current head of state

20TH CENTURY ENGLISH ($R2000) Coined around 1960, it’s the dull conformist town where the opposites of beatniks & hippies live

DID I MISS ANYTHING? ($2000) Bronislaw Malinowski did anthropological fieldwork for 2 years near this 2nd largest island, but WWI was still on when he was done

“F” IN SCIENCE ($800) CH2O is the chemical formula for this strong-smelling gas used in preservatives

($1200) The lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid may briefly ignite is called this

($1600) About 60% of the earth’s crust is made up of this group of glassy minerals

Sneak Peek clues — HISTORICAL FIGURES ON FILM
($400) 2019: Cynthia Ervo as this “conductor”
($800) 2006: This actor as Idi Amin
($1200) 2018: This actress as the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots
($1600) 2020: Charles Dance as this tycoon in “Mank”
($2000) Malcolm McDowell as this depraved Roman ruler

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