Final Jeopardy: State Capitals (6-24-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question in the category “State Capitals East of the Mississippi” was:

The last 2 letters of this city’s name are the U.S. postal abbreviation for the state that it’s the capital of

Today’s players: 2x champ Barton Wong, from Toronto, Ontario; Lindsey Shultz, from Pittsburg, PA; and Kevin Salat, from Seattle, WA.

This is a rerun from 3/14/2019. The full recap is over here

Here is a link to the weekly recap with all the FJ! clues from that week

Here are some more clues from other Lindsey Shultz games:

POP CULTURE DOUBLE TALK ($800) Julia Roberts played the evil queen to Lily Collins’ Snow White in this 2012 film

ERAS & AGES ($2000) Japan underwent Westernization in the period named for Mutsuhito, who took this royal “M” name & died in 1912

COLORFUL LIT ($1000) By Martha Hall Kelley about 3 women whose lives intersect during World War II & the Holocaust: “____ Girls”

Uncovered in 1928 by a peasant’s plow, the city of Ugarit in Syria once thrived, with a big temple to this fertility god

TV’s MIDDLE CHILD ($800) Oh, my god! He’s the middle child in the McCormick family on “South Park”

THE BOOK TITLE TITLE ($1000) Eugene O’Neill’s play “The ____ Jones”

CELEBRITY FILM VOICES ($2000) The Iron Giant in “The Iron Giant”

BEHIND BARS ($800) This brand of bitters was originally made in Venezuela as a medicine

NAMES FOR YOUR DOG ($1600) Is your dog the queen of the house? Call her this, the kingdom ruled by a visitor to King Solomon in the Bible

ARTISTS ON FILM ($2000) Willem Dafoe played Van Gogh in this 2018 film from artist/director Julian Schnabel