1950s PEOPLE
12/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In a New Yorker profile, he said, "Where I like it is out west in Wyoming, Montana, & Idaho, & I like Cuba & Paris"
12/31 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
BUSINESS & INNOVATION
12/31 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Stuck with 260 tons of unused turkey in late 1953, this company ordered aluminum trays & sold 10 million units of a new item in 1954
1/1 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SINGLE-NAMED PERFORMERS
1/1 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The last single-named actress to win an Oscar was this woman who won for her supporting role in "Precious"
1/2 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SCIENTISTS
1/2 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
About 100 years before Darwin, this naturalist put orangutans & humans in a group with the Latin name "Homo"
1/3 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
1/3 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Until a 1913 amendment allowed this, 1/3 of U.S. government revenue came from liquor
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Swanson
Mo'Nique
(Carolus) Linnaeus
income tax
The extra clues have a requested triple stumper followed by two more triple stumpers.
THE QUOTABLE RALPH WALDO EMERSON $2000: "A foolish consistency is" one of these "of little minds"
A LITERARY NEW YEAR $2000: New Year's Eve finds 4 people contemplating suicide in "A Long Way Down" by this man who also wrote "About a Boy"
PLACES $2000: At the heart of a major industrial region, this 2nd-most populous U.K. city lies near the geographic center of England
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Nick Hornby
Birmingham