Final Jeopardy: Characters in Children’s Lit (6-25-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question in the category “Characters in Children’s Lit” was:

This winged character from an early 20th century work is so named “because she mends the pots and kettles”

Today’s players: 4x champ Alan Dunn, from Johns Creek, GA; Jessica Cantrell, from Adairsville, GA; and Mark Johnson, from Rolla, MO.

This is a rerun from 10/18/2018. 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 Alan Dunn games:

SACK TIME ($1000) Part of the ransom paid to free this captured English king in 1194 was 50,000 sacks of wool

SCULPTURE ($1600) A major clue in “Angels & Demons” involves the Bernini statue “The Ecstasy of” this saint of Avila

WHICH STAR WARS ($1000) Young Anakin is assigned to protect Padme

ISLANDS ($1600) Stewart Island, this country’s third largest, is also called Rakiura, “The Land of Glowing Skies”

WAR FARE ($600) Nikita Khrushchev wrote, “without” this Hormel product, “we wouldn’t have been able to feed our army” in WWII

THEIR FINAL FILM ROLE ($800) A brief appearance as Plutarch Heavensbee in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2”

STARRING WITH THE DANCES ($1000) She’s a welder! She’s a dancer! She’s drenched! The “she” is Jennifer Beals; this is the 1983 film

NUCLEAR PHYSICS ($1600) This word once used by alchemists today means the changing of one element into another by a nuclear reaction

THE 1980s ($800) This “How’m I doin’?” NYC mayor also said, “I can explain this to you; I cannot comprehend it for you”

PAYING THE PIPER ($2000) If his song touched your soul in Seoul, tip him about a dollar–1,000 of these units