Final Jeopardy: Famous Phrase Origins (7-2-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question in the category “Shakespeare’s Time” was:

The line “a great reckoning in a little room” in “As You Like It” is usually taken to refer to this author’s premature death

Today’s players: 32x champ James Holzhauer, from Las Vegas, NV; Jay Sexton from Atlanta, GA; and Emma Boettcher, from Chicago, IL.

This is a rerun from 6/3/2019. 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 Emma Boettcher games:

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS ($1000) In 1520 this Portuguese explorer reported he encountered 8-foot natives in South America he called patagones

ALPHANUMERICS ($1200) Suze Orman said never borrow against this retirement plan; you’ll play double taxes on the money you borrow

SMOOTH SAILING IN SONG ($2000) Prior to “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, this singer took a smooth trip around “Christian Island”

VANS ($800) In “Double Impact” this action star played twins separated at birth; thankfully they both learned roundhouse kicks

BOOK SERIES ($1600) Diana Gabaldon gave Lord John Grey, an important recurring character in this series, a series of his own

($2000) He ruled Mexico with an iron fist from 1877 to 1880 & again from 1884 to 1911

MACAU ($600) Macau-born Ming-Na Wen voiced this title Disney heroine who saves China

A BIT OF LIT ($1200) The epigraph to this E.L. Doctorow novel is a quote by Scott Joplin

U.S. RIVERS THAT FLOW NORTH ($2000) One of Pittsburgh’s “Three Rivers”, it runs 128 miles north to join the Allegheny