Final Jeopardy: Adventure Novels (9-1-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/1/2020) in the category “Adventure Novels” was:

In this novel the surname of a pastor, his wife & 4 sons is not given in the text; the title was meant to evoke a 1719 novel

Today’s show is a rerun of the game that originally aired on 5/19/2020. The players are: Ben Scripps, Tiffany Vicars and Jackie Wong

Click here for the original recap of this game.

If you know the answers to these random clues, you won’t have any trouble with the 10 clues that have the same response in today’s game:

4-1-1991: AWARDS ($200) Cartoonist Bill Watterson won a Reuben Award for this comic strip about a boy & his tiger

10-6-1998: WRITERS’ PRIVATE LIVES ($600) He wrote “A Time To Kill” while serving in the Mississippi House of Representatives

7-2-2015: STATE CAPITAL NICKNAMES ($1600) “The Live Music Capital of the World”

3-3-1993: BOTANY ($500) These legumes are the USA’s largest source of vegetable oil

6-1-2012: PENINSULAS ($1000) Yalta & Balaklava are located on this peninsula

9-26-2003: DINOSAURS ($600) One theory says the triangular plates on its back helped control body temperature; another says they attracted mates

11-25-2010: THIS & THAT ($200) In Exodus his wife is identified as Zipporah

7-17-2000: “WIN” ($400) Seen here, Marie Barrow is holding this possession of her late brother Clyde

4-19-2004: U.S.A. ($400) In 2003 Burbank, Calif. posthumously thanked him for the memories by renaming its airport for him

5-16-1991: LANGUAGES ($400) This Celtic language has 2 main branches, Scottish & Irish