Final Jeopardy: The Oscars (2-11-21)

Here are 8 more triple stumpers from the 2/11/2021 Jeopardy! game:

BEVERAGES ($1000) Brandy distilled from the fruit in its name, long ago it was Americans’ favorite booze

SUPERSTITION ($1000) People mail back rocks taken from Hawaii, believing in bad luck caused by the so-called curse of this Hawaiian volcano goddess

TV ($1000) Rob Lowe plays firefighter/captain Owen Strand on “9-1-1:” this

ANIMALS IN GERMAN ($600) This large amphibious animal is nilpferd

SUBURBS ($800) Dum Dum, a weapons-making suburb of Kolkata, gave its name to an expanding type of this, banned by international law

THE SAME VOWEL, FRONT & BACK ($1200) 7-letter general term for a massive building

MARITIME DISASTERS ($1200) Once the largest ship on the Great Lakes, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in this great Lake during a 1975 storm

($1600) In 2012, the cruise ship called the “Costa” this ran aground off the Italian coast with the captain abandoning ship

The players got all the clues in the STEM category presented by Dr. Frauke Neuser, except the $800 and $2000 clues.

Sneak Peek clues — THE TITLE INSTRUMENT
($400) “While My ____ Gently Weeps” by the Beatles
($800) “Mr. ____ Man” by the Byrds
($1200) “Bang A ____ (Get It On)” by T.Rex
($1600) “Boogie Woogie ____ Boy” by Bette Midler
($2000) “The ____ Has Been Drinking (Not Me)” by Tom Waits — it’s the instrument Tom plays

ANSWERS: show