Final Jeopardy: Mythological Names (8-27-21)

Here are 5 triple stumpers from the 2-6-2017 Jeopardy! match:

VENICE ($1600) This sandbar, home to the Venice Film Festival since 1932, is one of Europe’s most popular beach resorts

($2000) The museum of glass art in the Giustinian Palace chronicles this nearby island’s glassmaking history

ALLITERATIVE 2-WORD TERMS ($1600) They’re the classic footwear seen here

($2000) Alliterative synonym for a shaman

CLASSICAL MUSIC ($1600) Mendelssohn’s “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage” is a concert one— not before an opera but standing alone

These 4 clues come from the “FICTIONAL DEATH” category, all responded to correctly:

($200) Post-mortem the title character of this H.G. Wells novel can be seen, hands & feet first

($400) This author said, “I killed Ned in the first book and it shocked a lot of people”; he was far from finished with the shocking

($600) The bell tolls for Esmeralda, executed as a sorceress in this 1831 classic

($800) This justifiably upset “Romeo and Juliet” character says, “A plague o’ both your houses!” before he dies

The $1000 clue in this category was a Daily Double, which you already know if you saw the game or read the first page of this recap

SNEAK PEEK clues: “MIS”QUOTES
($200) Mark Twain wrote about “the magnificent” this river “rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun”
($400) Frank Lloyd Wright claimed that “the physician can bury his” these “but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines”
($600) Chekhov wrote that he had “two professions…. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my” this
($800) The constitution states that a president can be removed from office for “high crimes and” these
($1000) In TV’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”, Charlie-in-the-box tells Hermey he’s the “Sentry of the Island of” these

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