Final Jeopardy: 1960s British Novels (6-13-24)

Here are some more clues from the 6/13/2024 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.

SAINTLY U.S. CITIES ($600) This capital is nicknamed “The City of Holy Faith”

($800) In the 1860s this Missouri city was the eastern terminus of the Pony Express

($1000) About 65 miles from the Twin Cities, this Minnesota city completes the title of the Trisha Yearwood sob song “On A Bus To…”

19TH CENTURY NEWSPAPERS ($400) In 1893 the S.F. Examiner published illustrator Jimmy Swinnerton’s “California Bears”, considered by some the first of these

($600) The first newspaper west of the Mississippi was the Missouri Gazette, published in this city on the Mississippi in 1808

RHYME TIME ($1000) Gorgonzola knowledge & proficiency – Answer: show

SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE ($800) The youngest secretary, he was 43 when he took office under Ford; he got older & was 74 when he left office under George W. Bush

($000) His book, “Worthy Fights”, documents his time as CIA Director & Secretary of Defense during Obama’s presidency

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BIOGRAPHIES ($1600) Carleton Mabee won the 1944 prize for “The American Leonardo”, a biography of this 19th century inventor & painter

($2000) (image) The Pulitzer-honored bio of this late wide-ranging intellectual does not omit her many glamorous lovers

FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES ($2000) In the KFPU (“Kung Fu Panda” Universe), Dustin Hoffman voices this role, Mandarin for “master”

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: RECITING POETRY
($200) Pt. II of this ends “What evil looks had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the albatross about my neck was hung”
($400) One of her 19th century sonnets says, “Behold and see what a great heap of grief lay hid in me”
($600) This 19th century lord & European traveler: “And all that’s best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes”
($800) Longfellow: “Impatient to mount and ride, booted and spurred, with a heavy stride, on the opposite shore walked” him
($1000) Kipling: “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs &” doing this

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show