Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Art (10-22-20)

Here are 10 more triple stumpers from the 10/22/2020 Jeopardy! game:

AMERICAN SUPERLATIVES ($200) At more than 1,000 feet above the water, the highest of these in the U.S. spans Royal Gorge in Colorado

($400) 275 million cubic yards of material were used in the largest of these American barriers on Tenmile Wash in Arizona

($1000) At 26 square miles, Arlington is the smallest self-governing this in the United States

WHEN “A” BECOMES THE FIRST LETTER… ($800) A conjunction meaning on the contrary becomes this verb meaning to be adjacent

EXPLORERS ($800) John Speke accidentally shot himself before he was to debate Richard Burton over the source of this river

ON THE COVER ($1600) In February 1963 Car & Driver featured this classic Triumph sports car & the same-named fighter plane

($2000) The July 1963 National Geographic cover listed a Carl Sandburg article on these 2 “burgs” subtitled “Just a Hundred Years Ago”

CAPITAL BIRTHPLACES ($1000) Google co-founder Sergey Brin

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS ($2000) Identified in 1886 by a Freiberg professor, this shiny gray element was named for its country of discovery

ANIMAL QUOTES ($2000) Robert Frost rhymed, “The way” this bird / “shook down on me / the dust of snow / from a hemlock tree”

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — ABBREVIATED BANDS
($200) A boy band: NKOTB
($400) Named to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020: NIN
($600) “Sweet Hitch-Hiker” was their last Top 10 hit: CCR
($800) They sound angry: RATM
($1000) They hit it big with “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”: BÖC

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