Final Jeopardy: City Name Origins (4-21-16)

5 triple stumpers:

WOMEN, IMMORTALIZED ($800) A statue of this ex-slave and abolitionist stands in Florence, MA, where she lived from 1843 to 1856

YOU NEED FOOD TO GROW ON ($600) Order the sheepshead; like most of these animals, it’s a good source of Omega-3 fatty acids

POPULAR WEBSITES ($400) As of February 2016, this .com boasted 281.9 million blogs

($600) 600 reasons you’ll name this Jonah Perretti-founded social news site

PAST TENSES ($400) It’s a homophone for a word for a chimney pipe

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There was one more stumper (*) in LITERARY NYC:

($400) In this novel we see the city through the eyes of young Holden Caulfield
($800) E.L. Doctorow’s “The Waterworks” is a gothic thriller set during this man’s corrupt 19th century rule of the city
($1200) Suzie Rotolo’s “A Freewheelin’ Time” is a memoir of her life in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene with this boyfriend
*($1600) The New York Times called “One Fifth Avenue” a “glossy new offering” from this “Sex and the City” scribe
($2000) This Jay McInerney novel evoked the Yuppie party scene of 1980s New York City

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