Final Jeopardy: Statesmen (4-23-20)

Here are 8 more triple stumpers from the 4/23/2020 Jeopardy! game:

FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES ($600) A young Clark Kent struggled to find his way in Smallville, a town in this Heartland State

PENNSYLVANIA GEO ($400) Pennsylvania’s central location on the Eastern Seaboard may be the source of this official state nickname

($600) In 1954 the towns of Mauch Chunk & East Mauch Chunk were joined & named after this 1912 Olympian

($800) Espy House, in the southern town of Bedford, served as Washington’s headquarters during this rebellion in 1794

FROM THE SANSKRIT ($800) Sanskrit for “weighty”, today it means a teacher

DRAW ME ($1200) Goya painted several pictures of his muse, Doña Maria, known as the “Black” this noble title

($2000) This early 19th century German author and thinker received more than 20,000 surviving letters; here he is with one of them (image shown)

LIKE ONE OF YOUR FRENCH GIRLS ($2000) In 1858 she heard the Virgin Mary tell her, “I am the Immaculate Conception” at a grotto near Massabielle

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — CHARACTERS IN BEATLES SONGS:
($400) This song mentions “a girl with kaleidoscope eyes”
($800) This Beatles song introduced “to you the one and only Billy Shears”
($1200) This title woman “picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been”
($1600) Vera, Chuck & Dave are the imagined grandchildren in this song
($2000) Nancy ran off with Dan, the rival of this guy from “the Black Mountain Hills of Dakota”

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