Final Jeopardy: The Civil War (2-28-20)

Here are 6 more triple stumpers from the 2/28/2020 Jeopardy! game:

SPORTS UPSETS ($1000) 2019’s ESPY Award for Upset of the Year went to this 25-1 underdog, the first heavyweight boxing champ of Mexican ancestry

WE CAN BE HEROES ($400 In 1983 Stanislav Petrov prevented nuclear war by not trusting word of the launch of 5 of these ICBMs named for Amer. Rev. Militia

JUST FOR ONE DAY ($600) If tomorrow’s today is Wednesday, then this is the day after tomorrow’s yesterday

($1000) In a nursery rhyme, Solomon Grundy “died on” this day (but still had yet to be buried in the next line)

STARTS & ENDS WITH B ($400) It’s the business end of a fish hook

MONSTERS INK ($2000) H.B. Lovecraft called this chief of his nightmares a blend of octopus, dragon & human forms

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — EXPLORERS:
($200) A city named for Sieur Du Luth sits where he negotiated a treaty with the Sioux in what is now this state
($400) When Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole in 1912, he found this country’s flag left 5 week earlier by Amundsen
($600) After conquering Cuba, Panfilo de Narvaez was tasked by Charles V to take this nearby peninsula
($800) Sent to Africa in 1841 as a missionary, this Scotsman eventually started exploring the place, presumably
($1000) The island of Van Diemen’s Land, a name associated with Australian penal colonies, was renamed in 1855 for this Dutch explorer

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