Final Jeopardy: Reference Books (6-21-21)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 6/21/2021 Jeopardy! game:

SOME RANDOM INFO ($200) Sticky fruits, not blood, are the diet of this type of parrot named for a classic character; check out that hairline

($800) Bruce Peterson’s horrific 1967 crash of Northrop’s M2-F2 was in this 1970s TV series opening; Peterson survived, but without bionics

A BRIEF HISTORY ($200) To make it more accessible, Stephen Hawking followed up “A Brief History of Time” with this even more concise version

($1000) Jonathan Clements’ “Brief History of” this group asks, were they “the last pagans or the first modern Europeans?”

OF “TIME” ($1000) 2-word term referring to a period before recorded history; in law, a claim dating from then needs no proof

FAMILIAR PHRASES ($800) Longtime Philly DJ Jerry Blavat helped popularize this “explosive” rhyming phrase for something good out of the old days

($1200) To the phrase “safe as” these little creatures, James Thurber added “under a cookstove”

PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS ($2000) Rod Serling was awarded a Purple Heart & this country’s Liberation Medal for his efforts in places like Leyte

Sneak Peek clues — MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD
($200) Henry Fonda & a jury decide a fate (1957)
($400) O’Shea Jackson, Jr. played Ice Cube (his dad) (2015)
($600) Robin Williams tells his students to seize the day (1989)
($800) Hilary Swank hits like a girl–a really, really powerful girl (2004)
($1000) Adam Sandler takes out Drew Barrymore over & over (2004)

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