Final Jeopardy: American Authors (8-19-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (8/19/2020) in the category “American Authors” was:

She published under her middle name; her first name was Nelle, Ellen backward in honor of her grandmother Ellen Finch

Today’s show is a rerun of the third quarter-final of the 2020 College Championship that originally aired on 4/8/2020. The players are: Alistair Gray, Londyn Lorenz and Kylie Weaver.

Click here for the original recap of this game.

Here are the triple stumpers from the third 2014 College Championship quarter-final, if you want to compare games.

BIOLOGY CLASS ($400) By definition, a polypeptide is a chain of these linked together by peptide bonds

STUDENT AID ($600) The PSAT is the qualifying exam for this scholarship program that began in 1955

SHARP THINGS ($800) A leather strip called a strop is traditionally for sharpening this

($2000) To have a selfish motive, or to possess an implement that needs sharpening

KENYA WEST ($1600) Some of Kenya’s most fertile land is within this 4,000-mile-long “Great” depression

($2000) She was talking about West Kenya when she began a book, “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills”

TIME MANAGEMENT ($2000) Smartphone clocks can drift 10 sec. a day; a Hong Kong scientist has a way to sync them with the flickering of this kind of light