Final Jeopardy: American Firsts (6-2-20)

Here are 5 more triple stumpers from the 6/2/2020 Jeopardy! game:

HALL MONITOR ($800) The Basketball Hall of Fame hosts a preseason college tournament named for this first play in a basketball game

($1000) In 2019 Edgar Martinez & Harold Baines were elected to Baseball’s Hall of Fame for playing this non-defensive position

WORDS FROM OLD ENGLISH ($1000) This geography term meaning a bend or a curve in a coastline sounds like sinking your teeth into something

GREATEST HITS OF THE SUPREMES ($400) In McCulloch v. Maryland, John Marshall wrote, “The power to” do this 3-letter verb “involves the power to destroy”

THE HUMAN BODY ($2000) Each hemisphere of the brain contains four lobes with different functions; your ability to process sounds, recognize words and understand them happens in this lobe, named for its location in relation to the size of the head

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — BEFORE & AFTER
($400) U.S. executive mansion that a legal confinement to one’s own residence instead of prison
($800) Historic New York City sports arena where Adam & Eve lived in the Bible
($1200) Paul McCartney’s Bond theme plays as Bruce Willis fights off bad guys at the Nakatomi Building
($1600) 2012 male stripper cinematic saga that went on to be our 70th Secretary of State
($2000) 1873 Jules Verne adventure novel that’s an NBC soap opera on the air since 1965

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