Final Jeopardy: 17th Century Writing (6-4-21)

Here are some more clues from the 6/4/2021 Jeopardy! game:

FAILED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS ($1000) An amendment replacing the 23rd Amendment with a grant of statehood to this area expired in 1985

ANCIENT HISTORY ($1600) Beginning around 1200 B.C. in what is today Mexico, she was the first African-American woman to earn her pilot’s license” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>this people built the 1st major pre-Columbian civilization in Mesoamerica

WORKING WITH CLAY ($2000) Formed by a consolidation of clay, this 5-letter rock makes up around 70% of the sedimentary rock on the Earth’s crust

CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS ($1200) The climax of “The Empire Strikes Back” takes place here, high above Bespin

A QUICK STUDY ($1200) Xylology

($2000) Brontology

Sneak Peek clues — DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER
($200) Upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him…lying on the floor was a dead man…withered”
($400) The harpoon was darted…(he) stooped to clear it…but the flying turn caught him round the neck”
($600) Nobody at the fair “knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all. No one was with her when she died”
($800) “On the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last…when morning came…Jo’s place was empty”
($1000) “‘For the rabbits’, (he) shouted…George raised the gun and steadied it…the crash of the shot rolled up the hills”

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