Final Jeopardy: Opera Source Material (7-26-23)

Here are some more clues from the 7/26/2023 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.

ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE ($1000) Dylan Thomas’ poem about these “Boys” who “in their ruin lay the gold tithings barren” has inspired book & song titles

I’M BLUE ($400) In this novel, a character is described as having “the half-tint blue eyes that told of off-planet foods in his diet”

DUAL BIOGRAPHIES ($1600) Samantha Morris wrote a book about Lucrezia Borgia & this brother whom Machiavelli admired

($2000) A dual bio cover Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Supreme Court justice & this Vienna-born man who was the third

PHYSICS ($800) Of these 2 opposite everyday words, one has a limit because you can’t take away more energy than is there; the other is in theory infinite

($1200) Gustav Kirchhoff showed that this travels at light speed, so a circuit connecting a motor to a switch will start the motor fast

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Sneak Peek clues — CROOKS:
($200) Chinatown gangster Mock Duck snitched on gambling dens but got a 1912 gambling charge himself & was sent to this double-talk prison
($400) In 1878 this “childish” gunslinger fought in the Lincoln County War before his date with Pat Garrett in 1881
($600) A 1949 obituary said the name of this man “whose magic would double an investment in 90 days, was heard everywhere”
($800) In 1986 reporter Geraldo Rivera opened a vault belonging to this Chi-Town criminal; what was found? Bupkis
($1000) Meaning “Shorty”, it’s the nickname of the Mexican drug lord who has a habit of escaping from prison

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