Final Jeopardy: U.S. Cities (8-6-20)

Here are 7 more triple stumpers from the 8/6/2020 Jeopardy! game:

TRACK & FIELD ($1000) This son of a Dutch immigrant had the first 15′ pole vault–in fact, he had the first 43 15′ pole vaults

WHITE ($200) This predatory creature is classified as Carcharodon carcharias

WRY ($600) Oscar Wilde wrote, “Experience is the name everyone gives to” these

POETIC LICENSE ($400) Britannica suggests that the out-of-wedlock children fathered by this “Good Gray Poet” were imaginary

($1200) A rural legend says he wrote a nasty ballad about Sir Thomas Lucy after being caught poaching on Lucy’s land

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY ($2000) Studying refraction in 1627, this French mathematician made a rainbow connection

YOU’VE GOT A “TUDE”, MISTER ($1600) King Lear speaks of “filial” this, which caused him grief

Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — EUROPEAN HISTORY:
($400) In 1536 King Christian III established this Protestant denomination as Denmark’s state religion
($800) When this country gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, Greece objected to its name & flag
($1200) In WWI Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria & the Ottoman Empire were known in the West as these “Powers”
($1600) In 59 B.C. Julius Caesar established a colony on the Arno River which later became this Italian city
($2000) In 1589 Henry of this kingdom became Henry IV of France & began the Royal Bourbon dynasty

ANSWERS: show