Final Jeopardy: The Oscars (8-7-20)

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

WELCOME BACK, CARTER ($600) He was the first to achieve bowling’s grand slam

THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES ($800) 43 down: Big citrus fruit (6)

($1000) 52 across: What the queasy rodeo rider didn’t feel like (1,7,5)

GREECE ($400) Around 1930 Angelos Sikelianos tried to revive the famous festival of this town, “Navel of the World”–didn’t work

($1200) After docking at this island, Apollo’s birthplace, head up the sacred way to the sanctuary of Apollo

($1600) If you love the nightlife & want to boogie, head to Pierros, a bar on this party island of the Cyclades

($2000) The Long Walls Pericles built connected Athens with this port city, 4 miles away

15-LETTER WORDS ($1600) From Greek & Latin for “life light”, it’s the production of light by certain living organisms, like fireflies

Sneak Peek clues — THE 1940s:
($400) In 1949 he began his reign over a principality & has served in that capacity ever since
($800) The action in this bestselling novel published in 1949 takes place 35 years later
($1200) One of Alec Guinness’s many masterly character portrayals was as this man in 1948’s “Oliver Twist”
($1600) In 1942, he painted his best-known work, “Nighthawks”
($2000) In 1940 this Republican lost to FDR in the presidential election

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