Final Jeopardy: Movie Characters (6-16-21)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 6/16/2021 Jeopardy! game:

SCIENTISTS ($1000) When asked about his proof of the existence of these waves, Heinrich Hertz said, “It’s of no use whatsoever”

NOT QUITE STUPID ANSWERS ($1000) Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero created this in 1846 by mixing glycerol with sulfuric & nitric acid

DEAR DIARY ($1600) With one’s face in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of firedrops”, he wrote on September 2, 1666

($2000) She’s seen here (image) in the 1960s when her decades of diaries, including her affair with Henry Miller, became a literary sensation

COUNTRY NAME ORIGINS ($400) Via French & Greek from Hut-Ka-Ptah, “Temple of the soul of Ptah

($2000) In Central Europe, from Latin for “eastern borderland”

TOUGH VOCABULARY ($1200) This word containing a synonym for “big” means “generosity” & was shouted in France when lords were giving gifts to people

Sneak Peek clues — IN THE MI”DD”LE
($200) Walk like a duck
($400) A golf club schlepper
($600) The Sphinx asked a tough one
($800) Readily available but not-so-valued people are “cannon” this
($1000) You can do it to eggs or pampered kids, with very different results

ANSWERS: show