Final Jeopardy: Women Authors (3-20-20)

Here are 7 more triple stumpers from the 3/20/2020 Jeopardy! game:

AMERICAN POETRY ($800) A long poem by Hart Crane was inspired by this structure seen from his apartment window

($1000) In her poem “Solitude”, Ella Wheeler Wilcox followed this line with “Weep, and you weep alone”

WORDS WITH 5 VOWELS ($600) The lens you look through at the viewing end of a microscope or telescope

WE KNEAD THE BREAD ($800) Common in Germany & Russia, black bread is typically made from this grain

GAME “OVER” ($400) Galoshes are a type of these

POLITICAL PARLANCE ($2000) Also a container for storing grain, it’s a box where proposed bills are placed in a legislative chamber

FOREIGN FLAGS ($1200) The colors of this low country’s flag were derived from the shield of Brabant

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — QUOTING THE COMEDY FILM
($400) 2000: “These are not spirit fingers! These… are spirit fingers”
($800) 1984: “Back off, man. I’m a scientist”
($1200) Ben Stiller: “Did you ever think that maybe there’s more to life than being really, really really ridiculously good-looking?”
($1600) 2003: “You’re my boy, Blue! You’re my boy”
($2000) 2009: “Phil, there is a tiger in the bathroom”

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7 Responses

  1. Robert says:

    Unfortunately, tonight’s contestants were not among the 100 Americans who might know this answer. Why would anyone associate Allende with 9/11?
    A competitive game ruined with an obscure question.

    • VJ says:

      On the other hand, why wouldn’t anyone associate Allende with Chile?

      The usual suspects connected with Jeopardy! clues about Chilean literature are Isabel Allende, Gabriela Mistral and Pablo Neruda. The last two were poets.

  2. William Weyser says:

    Like Danielle Steel in late January, Isabel Allende is a Women Author that I have never heard of.

    • VJ says:

      @William, just by way of additional info, Allende was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2014. This page shows all the honorees during his presidency. There are links at the top to the specific years. (Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Gloria Steinem got it in other years).