Final Jeopardy: Literary Characters (3-4-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 3/4/2022 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.

HISTORY($400) In 1867 young Erasmus Jacobs found the “Eureka” this “upon which the future success of South Africa will be built”

TRANSPORTATION ($800) California’s dream of this high-speed train from L.A. to San Francisco is now a hope to finish the Merced-Bakersfield route by 2030

GENUS & SPECIES ($2000) Musca is Latin for “fly”, an insect that should fear Muscicapa, a genus of this bird

UNUSUAL WORDS ($1600) Be careful around a bergschrund, one of these you may encounter on a mountainous glacier

Sneak Peek clues — SAMS CLUB
($200) In ads for Capital One, he has asked, “What’s in your wallet?”
($400) He’s the Sam who founded the Sam’s Club retail chain
($600) This funny lady left “The Daily Show” to host her own TV show
($800) In 2015, he took home four Grammys, including one for the song “Stay with Me”
($1000) 3 years before his death in a car crash, he made the cover of Rolling Stone as “Comedy’s Wild Thing”

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