Final Jeopardy: Women Authors (12-12-19)

Here are 2 more triple stumpers from the 12/12/2019 Jeopardy! game:

THE PRESIDENT HAD MONEY TROUBLES ($1000) In the 1890s what this Ohio Republican thought was a $17,000 debt helping a pal ballooned to $130,000
(Extra note: Walker’s side of the story)

FEMALE TV CRIME FIGHTERS ($400) A former stripper turned forensic investigator, Catherine Willows was played by Marg Helgenberger on this TV show

The player missed 2 clues (*) in RHYMES WITH A SEASON:

*($400) A complex like Westfield Citrus Park in Tampa
($800) It precedes “than a bag of hammers”
($1200) To throw, violently & suddenly
($1600) For his epitaph, Ben Franklin originally wanted just this early profession of his listed
*($2000) That young fellow in accounting is a real this hyphenated word for someone rising ambitiously

ANSWERS: show

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues – “EL” OR “LA”

($400) A cemetery in Paris is nicknamed for this priest, confessor to Louis XIV
($800) A 2019 horror movie was called “The Curse of” her, Spanish for “The Weeping Woman”
($1200) Soprano Maria Callas made her debut at this Milan opera house in 1950
($1600) In 1942 British troops fought the Germans in 2 major battles named for this Egyptian coastal town
($2000) The name of this Keats poem means “The Beautiful Lady Without Pity”

ANSWERS: show