Final Jeopardy: Historic Americans (8-24-21)

Here are 6 more triple stumpers from the 8/24/2021 Jeopardy! game:

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR ($600) Supporters of the government were known as Loyalists or as these, also an American political party

GOOD AS GOLD ($400) Dating to the 600s B.C., the first Western coins were made of electrum, an alloy of gold & 20 percent this stuff

($600) The earliest coins of ancient Britain were made of speculum, this alloy containing 20 percent tin

MISSOURI ($1000) This “saintly” Missouri city was the eastern terminus of the Pony Express

HULL OF FAME ($2000) Made famous in a 1975 John Denver song & in documentaries, it was originally a Minesweeper built for the Royal Navy

MUSEUMS ($2000) The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center & the Great Lakes Science Center are in this state

SNEAK PEEK clues – THE FUNNYMAN WHO PLAYED…
($400) God in “Oh, God!”
($800) African prince Akeem in “Coming to America”
($1200) George Banks, the “Father of the Bride” in the 1991 remake
($1600) Popeye in the 1980 film
($2000) Chester Lee, a girl’s soccer coach in “Ladybugs”

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