FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
12/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Introduced in 1938 & inspired by movie character Torchy Blane of the Morning Herald, she has since gone on to win a fictional Pulitzer
12/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
3-NAMED WOMEN
12/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Not primarily known as a suffragist, in 1879 she became the first female resident of Concord, Mass. to register to vote in local elections
12/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SPORTING EVENTS
12/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1752 one of the first races in this sport was run--4 miles from Buttevant Church to St. Mary's Doneraile
12/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE EARLY UNITED STATES
12/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The final piece in this series points out "the analogy of the proposed government to your own state constitution"
12/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
INTERNATIONAL LANDMARKS
12/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In December 2020 an international agreement added nearly 3 feet to this; one surveyor lost half a toe in the effort
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Louisa May Alcott
steeplechase
The Federalist Papers
Mount Everest
The extra clues have three that Amy missed and an opponent rebounded correctly.
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE $2000: In 1948 this Dixiecrat won 39 electoral votes with only 2% of the popular vote
GEOLOGY $1000: A transform fault such as the San Andreas is where 2 of these very large plates slide past each other
OPERA $2000: Dr. Grenvil examines Violetta in act 3 of this Verdi opera, but it is too late--she dies in her lover's arms
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
tectonic plates
La traviata