Final Jeopardy: Nobel-Winning Novelists (9-7-21)

Here are some more clues from the 9/7/2021 Jeopardy! game:

HOLIDAYS & FESTIVALS ($1000) Riverfest is a big annual celebration in Wichita, Kansas & this is the river

THE FAMILY BUSINESS ($400) In 2006 the new CEO of this beverage company was August IV, great-great-grandson of co-founder Adolphus

($1000) The Piëch-Porsche family has the largest stake in this automaker that owns Audi, & yes, Porsche

TOURNAMENTS ($1000) In 1851 the first international tournament of this game was held in London, with Adolf Anderssen crowned champion

DOUBLE THE DOUBLE VOWELS ($1000) This transparent feature first debuted for Ford on the 1973 Lincoln Continental Mark IV

THE FINEST OF FINE ARTS ($400) Choreographer Eliot Feld turned the music of Johann Strauss Jr. into these “dotty” dances

VEGETABLES ($1600) This vegetable was described by Mark Twain as a “cabbage with a college education”

THE “TOC” ($1200) Fans of vintage stuff covet old unsold items classed as this inventory with a “mortal” name

($2000) The name of this cloud layer means “high heap”

Sneak Peek clues — BESTSELLERS
($200) This bestselling novel by Laura Esquivel was published in Spanish as “Como agua para chocolate”
($400) In a novel by Matt Haig, infinite books line the shelves of “The Midnight” this title place; most offer another story of reality
($600) Sergio D’Angelo sneaked this story of Yuri & Lara out of the USSR & it became a bestseller
($800) Madeline Miller had bestsellers with “Circe” & “The Song of” him
($1000) This 1956 book about a politician in his final campaign became a phrase meaning any fine or brave farewell performance

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