Final Jeopardy: Shakespeare’s Tragedies (5-14-20)

Here are 10 more clues from the 5/14/2020 Jeopardy! game, the last game in Match 4 of the 2020 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions:

The players got all the clues in PHRASES & EXPRESSIONS, except the 1600 one (*):

(400) 2 antonyms make up this phrase for a legal case with an obvious verdict
(800) 5-word phrase said when turning down fatty food or folding a poker hand
(1200) Thomas Carlyle described a leader as “soft of speech… yet with an inflexible rigor of command”: this metaphor
*(1600) In a 1901 novel a girl is seized by a Frenchman & “perhaps carried off to” this dreadful destiny
(2000) The fifth & probably smelliest of Hercules’ labors, it has come to mean any herculean task

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Answers to the Sneak Peek clues: PURPLE REIGN:
(400) At its height in the 1920s & 1930s, the Purple Gang reigned over this large Midwestern city’s underworld
(800) Way back in the 19th century, the football team of this school that’s now in the Big Ten was nicknamed “The Purple”
(1200) It’s the 4-letter title of the Deep Purple Top 10 hit with that “na-na-na-na” part
(1600) Porphyrogeniture is succession by the 1st son “born in the purple”, while dad was king; this is succession by the 1st son born anytime
(2000) aka royal purple, the famed dye named for this Phoenician city was produced during the Bronze Age

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