Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Physics (12-14-21)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 12/14/2021 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.

ALLITEROCKERS ($400) This band’s hits include “Everlong” & “Times Like These”

U.S. COUNTIES ($800) These 2 counties that both end in “-folk” border Massachusetts
Bay [note: the coastal counties showing Boston and Dedham]

($1000) This Oklahoma county is in the title of Tracy Letts’ play about a dysfunctional family

AN INSTRUCTOR ($1000) A piece on sight-reading strategies as 2013’s article of the year in the journal AMT, American this

A LECTURER ($200) Einstein lectured that this enjoys “esteem above all other sciences” because “its laws are… certain & indisputable”

($1000) The early 1800s London lectures of this discoverer of sodium brought so much traffic, Albemarle St. had to be made one-way

AN AD JUNKED ($400) L’Oréal & Lancôme ads have been junked because of the misleading overuse of this, a verb that is also an Adobe brand

($1000) This automaker had an ad for its F-type sports car banned for encouraging “irresponsible driving”

16TH CENTURY ARTS ($1600) Parmigianino painted a self-portrait in this curved item, also the title of John Ashbery’s poem about the painting

TRANSPORTATION ($1600) In 2010 Rocky Robinson reached 376.363 miles per hour, the fastest land speed ever riding one of these [Mayim just said the last word]

($2000) “Ride Green” (bright green) “with” this bike & scooter sharing service

POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS. ($2000) On the silver screen, this beloved actor played both Mr. Roberts & Young Mr. Lincoln

DIFFERS BY A LETTER ($800) A part of speech & an offer made to you

Sneak Peek clues — WOMEN AUTHORS
($400) She modeled 3 of the sisters in “Little Women” on her own siblings & Jo March after herself
($800) Third time’s the charm for this author who won a Pulitzer for her third novel “The Goldfinch”
($1200) She dedicated her first novel “The Joy Luck Club”, “To my mother and the memory of her mother”
($1600) This late author’s sci-fi & fantasy classics include “The Left Hand of Darkness” & the Earthsea books
($2000) At 14, this British author of “White Teeth” changed the first letter of her name from S to Z, thinking it sounded more exotic

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