Final Jeopardy: Awards & Honorees (10-28-20)

Here are 7 more triple stumpers from the 10/28/2020 Jeopardy! game:

FROM S TO T ($1000) Medieval knights wore this outer tunic over their metal armor

BANDS OF THE 21ST CENTURY ($2000) This hit by Panic! at the Disco had no fewer than 9 writers; Tayla Parx contributed the “Mama said” part

WHAT’S YOUR “I.P.” ADDRESS? ($1200) Dr. Robert Wang helped create this brand of multicooker whose name implies speed

($1600) Inadequate defense is a problem encountered by this group that works to exonerate the wrongly convicted

LITERATURE ON THE MAP ($1200) This author based the novel “The Magic Mountain” on a trip to Davos, Switzerland to treat his wife’s bronchitis

EVERYDAY GERMAN IN ENGLISH ($1600) None of this “whirlpool” pastry for me–I’m dieting

($2000) A book about the hero’s formative years is this kind of “education novel”

The players missed 4 clues in HODGEPODGE. (At least they didn’t lose any money on them):

($200) In 1968 Congress passed the Fair this act, a word also in the name of a then 3-year-old cabinet department
($400) In the 2010s LoL, this multiplayer game, surpassed WoW as the world’s most popular video game
($600) Don’t struggle clumsily in naming this flatfish, be it European or starry
($1000) The functions of a liver cell can be split into 5 major categories, one of which is changing fat & protein into this

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Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES:
($400) December 31, 1999: “Little Fallout from” this “Glitch”
($800) April 19, 1923: “74,200 See Yankees Open New Stadium; he “Hits Home Run”
($1200) April 19,, 1978: “Senate Votes to Give Up” this waterway
($1600) From April 1955: this man’s “Polio Vaccine Proves Success: Millions Will Be Immunized Soon”
($2000) April 20, 1993: “Death in” this Texas city; “Scores Die as Cult Compound is Set Afire”

ANSWERS: show