Final Jeopardy: Influential Writing (5-7-20)

Here are 2 more triple stumpers from the 5/7/2020 Jeopardy! game, the first game of Match No. 2 in the 2020 Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time Tournament:

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: AFTER THE GAME (1000) Steve Largent went on from this university to a HOF pro career, then returned home to represent the area in Congress

NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES (1600): This French daily paper began in 1944, when the German army had left Paris & France had need of an independent voice

The players got all these clues in SHORT STORY SYLLABUS (The 600 clue was a Daily Double):

(200) “The Lone Ranger &” this man “Fistfight in Heaven” is the title story of a collection by Native American author Sherman Alexie

(400) A Dostoyevsky story is titled these, the daylit evenings of St. Petersburg in summertime

(800) “Cathedral” is the title story of a 1983 collection by this American realist & onetime janitor

(1000) This 19th century French short story master is noted for twist endings, as in “The Necklace”

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues: THE “GOLD” “BERGS” (the answer has one or the other in it):
(200) This man from Medford, Massachusetts was the 108th mayor of New York City
(400) He wrote the screenplay for “Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid” & adapted his own novel “Marathon Man” for the movies
(600) “The Good Earth”, released in 1937 after his death, was the first film with the name of this MGM production head in the credits
(800) In 1998 this former GOP presidential candidate went to Paradise…Valley’s Christ Church of the Ascension Memorial Garden in Arizona
(1000) Missile launches are part of the mission of the California Air Force base named for this general

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