20th CENTURY ARTWORK
5/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The artist's wife described the scene of this 1942 painting as "brilliant interior of cheap restaurant"
5/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
NOBEL-WINNING NOVELISTS
5/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Falsely accused of murder, a character in his 1948 novel becomes "tyrant over the whole county's white conscience"
5/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
5/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Monsieur Crescendo & Signor Vaccarmini ("Mr. Racket") were derisive nicknames for this composer whose last opera dates from 1829
5/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
MUSIC & GEOGRAPHY
5/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In a British folk tune, the title lass Maggie May is sentenced to go way down south to this penal colony that rhymes with her name
5/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
EUROPEAN BORDERS
5/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
It's still there, but none of the countries that bordered this country at the beginning of 1990 exist anymore
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
(William) Faulkner
(Gioachino) Rossini
Botany Bay
Poland
The extra clues have one correct by each of the finalists.
ON THE RIVER $2000: Ciudad Bolívar, Ciudad Guayana
MEDICAL MILESTONES $2000: Implanted in 1982, the first successful artificial heart was designed by & named for this American doctor
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $800: In a story by Mary Mapes Dodge, the sister of this title boy wins the silver skates
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
(Robert) Jarvik
Hans Brinker