Final Jeopardy: The 50 States (2-9-21)

Here are 6 more triple stumpers from the 2/9/2021 Jeopardy! game:

NONFICTION ($1000) Thomas Merton’s “The Seven Storey Mountain” is his faithful account of joining this order of silent monks

POTPOURRI ($1000) In 1852, George Stokes’s study of the mineral seen here (image) inspired him to coin this word for a type of photoluminescence

IT’S “IN” THE SPORT ($1000) Jack Nicklaus says, “I’ve always used” this “grip” in which his right hand’s pinky intertwines with his left hand’s index finger

TV SHOWS BY WORKPLACE ($400) Pritchett’s Closets & Blinds

($2000) The MaxDot Compression Socks Company

ENGINEERING ($2000) Mae Jemison got her start in the sciences with a degree in chemical engineering before becoming the first African-American woman in space as an MS–this kind of astronaut conducting experiments aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour

Sneak Peek clues — COUNTRIES’ TRANSLATED NAMES
($200) “Land of the Angles” (Europe)
($400) “Little Venice” (South America)
($600) “In the Navel of the Moon” (North America)
($800) “Land Beside the Silvery River” (South America)
($1000) “Bright Stone” (Europe)

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