Final Jeopardy: 20th Century People (9-20-23)

Here are some more clues from the 9/20/2023 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.

NAME THAT PLAY ($800) “It’s terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a single gentleman caller”

($1000) “Begin thine incantations, and try if devils will obey thy hest, seeing thou has pray’d and sacrific’d to them”

THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU ($2000) A sauce of egg yolks, sherry, cream, butter and seasonings over lobster and buttered toast points is served as this

OPERA ($400) In this Verdi opera, Manrico is a tenor & a troubadour, the meaning of the work’s Italian title

($800) “Cav & Pag” is shorthand for the pairing of this one-act opera by Mascagni with “Pagliacci”

($1200) The plot of this comic opera by Mozart centers on 2 sisters & their soldier boyfriends; the 3-word title is fun to say

“HIGH” NOTES ($2000) Fittingly, Swoosie Kurtz, Joel McCrea & Tuesday Weld are alumni of it

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Sneak Peek clues — B MINUS
($200) A B fallS off a charred word & becomes this funereal container
($400) Knock a B off a Biblical tower & get the name of this Biblical murder victim
($600) Wash away the B from a type of small river & get this name for a chess piece
($800) Sink the B off a group of ocean vessels & get this horse food
($1000) When a cetacean fatty layer sweats out its B, this unskilled seaman is all that’s left

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