Final Jeopardy: Writers & The South (2-20-23)

Here are some more clues from the 2/20/2023 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.

TECH TALK ($600) These days, more than 70% of Internet traffic is this type of video that typically uses data compression

LET’S TAKE A SPRING BREAK ($800) Spring break is major party time on the beaches of SPI, this Texas spot

BODIES OF WATER ($1000) In ancient times the Dardanelles Strait was called this & was associated with the story of Hero & Leander

A CRASH COURSE IN JOHN GREEN ($600) With a mission to increase awesome & decrease suck & to champion causes to help others, fans of my brother Hank & I & our VlogBrothers videos are called these, from the misreading of the name of a video game

($1000) I wrote alternating chapters with David Levithan for a novel that follows two very different teens–one gay & one straight–who share this same name

RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE ($2000) Here’s a video clue of Hanoi’s Tran Quoc Buddhist temple & if we had olfactory clues, you could smell the Hoi An this

TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY ($1200) NYC’s Riverside Branch pioneered open these, despite librarians’ fears that patrons would steal the books

($1600) This city’s main public library, named for Mayor Harold Washington, has a teen learning center called YOUmedia

($2000) Ashurbanipal, book lover & king of this ancient kingdom ruled from Nineveh, built the world’s first known library in the 600s B.C.

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Sneak Peek clues — CROSSWORD CLUES “T”
($200) A storm–in Shakespeare or a teapot (7 letters)
($400) Doorway part brides have been carried over (9 letters)
($600) Math term for a digression (7 letters)
($800) Boss Tweed’s corrupt hall (7 letters)
($1000) A really fast heart rate (11 letters)

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show