Final Jeopardy: 20th Century America (9-7-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/7/2020) in the category “20th Century America” was:

10-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. sang with his church’s choir at the celebrated premiere of this film

Today’s show is a rerun of the game that originally aired on 6/8/2020. The players are: Morgan Wilbanks, Lindsay Madejski and Tonya Schaan.

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:

01-08-1988: WYOMING ($500) In 1906, Pres. T. Roosevelt declared this “Tower” in N.E. Wyoming the nation’s 1st nat’l monument

07-14-1992: THE BLUES ($400) This “mood”y blue color got its name because the dye was from India

11-05-1987: TV COPS $100: Rank of TV cops T.J. Hooker, Joe Friday & Pepper Anderson

07-15-2010: MEASURE THIS, TREBEK! $2000: It’s not a pig cranium, it’s a unit of measure equal to 63 gallons

05-27-2009: IT HAS TO END WITH “U” ($400) There are a total of 17 syllables in this type of poem

02-21-2014: FICTIONAL COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ($1200) Camden College is the setting for “The Rules of Attraction” by this 3-named chronicler of amoral youth

02-11-1988: THE PULITZER PRIZE ($800) Thornton Wilder’s prize-winning play about life & death in a small “corner” of New Hampshire

12-21-1995: THE CIVIL WAR ($1000) The Atlantic Monthly paid $5 for this Julia Ward Howe poem & published it in February 1862

03-02-2001: LET IT “SNOW” ($300) Found in the mountains of central Asia, this feline is also known as an ounce

06-24-1987: FOREIGN WORDS ($800) In English, it’s only a hoax, while in French, it’s also a duck