Final Jeopardy: World Rivers (9-28-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 9/28/2022 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.

HATCHET MAN ($800) This nickname of Abraham Lincoln highlighted his axemanship

($1000) Before Jack chopped down the beanstalk, he stole the golden goose & a talking one of these musical instruments

HISTORY ($1000) On Friday the 13th of October 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrest of this military group

ONE-NAMED ROCK STARS ($400) His surprise was evident when he won Grammy’s Album of the Year in 2015

($800) This Guns N’ Roses guitarist said he has flat-lined at least 3 times & has an internal defibrillator in his heart

CLIFF NOTES ($1200) “Dizzy sunless cliffs above the great abyss” paints a picture in H.P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of” this

($1600) In an Alistair MacLean novel, Keith Mallory must scale the cliffs of this island & quell the title “Guns” there

($2000) A scene from “The Final Problem” finds Sherlock Holmes tussling with Moriarty on cliffs above these falls

THE ACTOR’S STUDIO ($800) She hit the big time with Paramount Pictures in the 1930s (image)

NATURALISTS ($2000) Marie Sibylla Merian advanced etymology in 1706’s book, this process of the Insects of Surinam, which she illustrated

AND THE STATE GOES TO… ($1600) Mississippi & South Carolina, 1952

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Sneak Peek clues — I LONG FOR LONG “U”
($200) Military horns or crunchy snacks made from corn
($400) This speedy winter sport also has a street version
($600) A hexahedron
($800) Horizontal whale tail part
($1000) In a restaurant, what an appetizer will do to your bouche

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