Final Jeopardy: U.S. Political History (5-11-20)

The players got all these clues in the first game of the third match of the Jeopardy! 2020 Greatest of All Time tournament, except the last one in BUY A VOWEL (*)

(200) Add a vowel to what brevity is the soul of & get a verb meaning to cool your heels
(400) A thing’s physical magnitude adds a vowel & becomes a verb meaning to snatch
(600) A word meaning to move quickly afoot adds a vowel & becomes to wreck or destroy
(800) A fluid for writing adds a vowel & becomes this barnyard clamor
*(1000) An Eisteddfod winner adds a vowel & becomes a long, flat piece of pine

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PREQUELS & SEQUELS:
(200) After becoming heir to a chocolate factory, Charlie goes on another adventure, this time in a “great glass” one of these
(400) Set for release in 2020 is Suzanne Collins’ “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”, a prequel to this series
(600) Elmore Leonard brought back former loan shark Chili Palmer in “Be Cool”, his sequel to this bestseller
(800) Edited by the author’s son Christopher & published in 1977, it’s a history of Middle-earth before “Lord of the Rings”
(1000) In 1847 Herman Melville published this sequel to “Typee” subtitled “A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas”

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