Final Jeopardy: Sporting Events (12-22-21)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 12/22/2021 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.

SHORT POEMS ($2000) We’ll quote half a poem by Frost: “The way a crow / Shook down on me /” this title “From a Hemlock Tree”

I KNOW THAT NAME ($1600) This single-named songbird tugged at our heartstrings with “You Should Be Sad”

AVIATION ($1600) In April 2021, this resourceful helicopter made history, taking off on Mars for a series of experimental flights

Today was the first FJ! clue for Steeplechase. The last time it was in a clue was in 2016, and the last time it was an answer to a clue was in 2015
07-29-2016 TRAVEL IRELAND ($1200) There once was a city in Ireland… this one that’s home to the Munster National Steeplechase horse race
06-11-2015 A GAME OF HORSE ($1600) Impromptu races by fox hunters in 18th c. Ireland used churches as landmarks, leading to the name of this sport
09-19-2011 28 IS GREAT ($800) Seen here is one of the 28 hurdles that are part of this track event
04-06-2010 WHAT HAPPENS IN DEGAS, STAYS IN DEGAS ($2000) Before Leroy Neiman, Degas went sports artist with “Scene from the Steeplechase: The Fallen” this person
12-14-2005 CARY GRANT ($400) In 1922 Grant worked as a stiltworker advertising Steeplechase Park at this Brooklyn attraction

Sneak Peek clues — NO DA
($400) Shear “da” off the end of a Greek letter to get this animal
($800) With no “da”, a 19th century photographer becomes this French for “war”
($1200) “Da” checks out of a hotel chain, leaving this Hindu god & subject of an epic poem
($1600) Play it again from the beginning but without “da” & you have this rank in organized crime
($2000) With no “da”, a vast country becomes a New Testament town where a miracle happened

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