Final Jeopardy: World Airports (9-27-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 9/27/2022 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.

LITERARY PROFESSIONS ($600) Mr. Chipping, but you can call him Mr. Chips

($800) V.I. Warshawski & Lew Archer

THE 19TH CENTURY ($400) In December 1882 Edward Johnson, a VP under Thomas Edison, became the first person to put electric lights on this

POLITICAL WRITING ($800) “Memoirs of” this Philippine president were finished by her nephew using private filmed interviews originally meant for an autobiography

ALSO IN THE CIRCUS ($1600) Tolkien wrote that these were “for the Elven-kings under the sky”

($2000) Foremost of the Muses, she was said to be the mother to Orpheus

ALPHANUMERICS ($1600) This designation of the Starship Enterprise was created partly because U.S. aircraft had “NC” registrations
($2000) Modern chess notation doesn’t use king’s bishop 4 & such; all the squares are numbered from a1 to this

ALPHANUMERICS ANSWERS: show

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Sneak Peek clues — CASH
($200) The reverse of the FDR dime features a torch, an oak branch & one of these symbols of peace
($400) Topped by the figure of a woman, this structure that was at one time looted & burned appears on the back of the $50 bill
($600) Joseph Wharton, the Penn business school guy, owned a mine of this metal & got thee Treasury to make coins out of it
($800) Gilroy Roberts, chief engraver of the U.S. mint, designed this coin with input from Jackie Kennedy
($1000) The $10 bill was issued in 1914 with this President on the front; today, he’s on a larger bill & some don’t want him there

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show