Final Jeopardy: Singers (3-21-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 3/21/2022 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.

PICTURE/BOOK ($600) It’s mainly set in New York City

($1000) A first novel dealing with the Second World War

4-LETTER COUNTRIES ($1000) Mostly volcanic, about 300 islands make up this Pacific Ocean nation 1,000 miles north of New Zealand

LET YOUR STAR GUIDE YOU ($800) Originally a British tribunal, this 2-word term now refers to any group that adjudicates unfairly

($1000) Oscar Wilde wrote “We are all in” this, “but some of us are looking at the stars”

GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT ($2000) Not for the faint of heart or liver, it’s European plum brandy, such as Rudolf Jelinek 10 year Gold

Sneak Peek clues — BOATING GLOSSARY
($200) A windlass is a rotating device that houses the chain used to raise or lower this
($400) To take a sounding is to measure this, often important in unfamiliar seas
($600) It’s a rope attached to the lower corner of a sail to control it; if you’re 3 of them “to the wind”, you’re drunk
($800) It sounds like scissors are required to do this, change the angle of a sail to take advantage of the wind
($1000) The uppermost edge of the side of a boat gets its name because it was once used to support cannons

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