Final Jeopardy: Phrases in American History (8-16-23)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (8/16/2023) in the category “Phrases in American History” was:

Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise

In the third quarterfinal match of the 2022 Tournament of Champions, the contestants are: Brian Chang, an attorney from Chicago, IL, Tyler Rhode, a director at a start-up from New York, NY; and Margaret Shelton, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, PA.

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This SIMON SAYS category is from Double Jeopardy!

$400: Actor Simon Callow writes of this “Ring” composer, “had he been… other than a musical genius, he would have been locked up”
$800: In a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, he says, “I’m your church now! You understand,–you’ve got to be as I say”
$1200: Simon Pegg, in this film: If we don’t leave, zombies will “tear us to pieces, & that is really going to exacerbate things”
$1600: In a Twain tale, Simon Wheeler tells the story of Jim Smiley & “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of” this title place
$2000: This Holocaust survivor & Nazi hunter wrote, “Violence is like a weed–it does not die even in the greatest drought”

Answers: show

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