Final Jeopardy: America in the 1700s (5-18-20)

Here are 5 more triple stumpers from the 5/18/2020 Jeopardy! game:

FIRST NAME’S THE SAME ($1000) Philosophers Buber and Heidegger

PLANT (ON) THE FLAG ($1000) Spain’s flag depicts one of these tropical fruits that gave Persephone so much trouble

DA, YOU SPEAK RUSSIAN ($2000) This word borrowed from Russian refers to the influential educated social & political classes

ROCK BANNED ($1600) 1977: The BBC bans this Sex Pistols song, which still hits No. 2 on the British charts

($2000) 1968: “There’s just no place for” this Rolling Stones song in many cities in a year of political demonstrations

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — THEY DIDN’T SURVIVE THE FILM
($200) “Bubba was gonna be a shrimpin’ boat captain, but instead he died right there by that river in Vietnam” in this film
($400) Having learned his lesson, Thor goes for the head of this guy in “Endgame”, & gets it, big time, but somehow, that’s not his last scene
($600) The love story & eventual passing of Ellie Fredricksen is detailed beautifully in this 2009 animated film
($800) In this 1987 film Sean Connery as lawman Jimmy Malone dies operatically; Eliot Ness avenges him on a rooftop
($1000) Han gets blown up in this Japan-set 2006 installment of “The Fast & the Furious”– or does he?

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