Final Jeopardy: Literature (5-17-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 5/17/2022 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.

TOOL TIME: PAIRS EDITION ($1000) Every woodworker worth his wood knows the joint called this & tenon

MILITARY HISTORY ($2000) An impressment ordinance got this author of “The Pilgrim’s Progress” caught up in the English Civil Wars

COUNTRIES IN THE U.S. ($1200) The Doobie Brothers sang about “When the sun comes up on (this) sleepy little town / Down around San Antone”

($2000) This city in Kansas that’s just about the geographic center of the lower U.S. shares its name with a nation on the Mediterranean

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE ($2000) This U.S. telescope named for a German astronomer looked for extrasolar planets that might contain water

MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER ($2000) Allied prisoners tunnel out of a German P.O.W. camp in a Disney movie about kids with magical powers
ANSWER: show

SCORING A “T–D” ($800) A milquetoast is described as being extremely this

Medieval folk wore this type of garment like the yellow one seen here (image), often featuring a coat of arms

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Sneak Peek clues — POETS
($200) Annotations on a First Folio of Shakespeare were found to be in the handwriting of this “Paradise Lost” poet
($400) Poetic insult contests called flyting, basically 15th c. rap battles, are parodied in this Scottish poet’s “To a Louse”
($600) Gil Scott-Heron turned his poem titled this “Will Not Be Televised” into a 1970s musical anthem
($800) It took this poet 5 years to sell 500 copies of his first book, “Prufrock & Other Observations”
($1000) Edmund Spenser coined the word “blatant” to describe a beast in this allegorical poem

ANSWERS: show