Final Jeopardy: Birds (3-13-20)

Here are 13 more triple stumpers from the 3/13/2020 Jeopardy! game:

ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS ($200) From 1978 to 1990 this woman won 9 Wimbledon singles titles, giving her the most ever among both men & women

($400) Known as O Rei, Portuguese for “the king”, this man born in 1940 has the most Men’s World Cup championships, with 3

($800) In 1939 this Yankee’s No. 4 was retired, the first number ever retired in Major League Baseball

STATE THE PROBLEM ($200) The 1972 Black Hills Flood claims more than 200 lives

($400) An 1893 hurricane devastates the island of Cheniere Caminada

($1000) Company thugs assault UAW leaders in the 1937 “Battle of the Overpass”

FIRST NAMES OF FAMOUS PAIRS ($800) Burns & Allen

SMITHSONIAN AIR & SPACE MUSEUM ($400) There was room for 2 men, Frank Borman & James Lovell, in the capsule used for their 2-week long 1965 orbital mission in this program
(Note from VJ: number not necessary)

($800) Though it wasn’t quite ready for combat in World War II, the Bell Airacomet first flew in 1942, making it the first American plane to use this then-emerging technology

($1000) Appropriately “Little Stinker”, a nimble Pitts Special S1c, hangs upside down. In the 1940s and 50s, pioneering daredevil Betty Skelton flew it to win titles in this spectacular sport of stunt flying.

HAJJ-PODGE ($800) Zamzam is a kind of this dispensed to thankful pilgrims during the Hajj

THE NORMAN CONQUEST ($800) The invaders fought this way, something not done in England before; get down ‘ere, you blasted Norman, & fight like a real man

PORTMANTEAU WORDS ($2000) Lewis Carroll coined this word for a gleeful laugh

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — S PLUS 3 LETTERS:
($200) To cook food by slow boiling, perhaps in one’s own juice
($400) I say potato, you say…
($600) Japanese wrestling
($800) To influence someone’s opinion, or to move to & fro
($1000) Fine sand or soil deposited as sediment

ANSWERS: show