RADIO HISTORY
3/8 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
A 1949 broadcast in Spanish of this drama from 11 years before caused mass panic in Ecuador & the destruction of the radio station
3/9 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SCIENCE FICTION
3/9 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In a 1952 sci-fi story, a time traveler returning to the present finds a dead one of these insects on his shoe
3/10 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LITERARY THRILLERS
3/10 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The only Ian Fleming James Bond novel not told in the third person, it's narrated by one of 007's paramours
3/11 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS
3/11 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Representing its outspoken tone, this newspaper founded in the 19th century has the name of a free-spirited opera character
3/12 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
HISTORIC PLACES
3/12 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
8 presidents have visited this battle site with an Algonquian name about 50 miles from Washington; for McKinley, it was a return visit
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
a butterfly
The Spy Who Loved Me
Le Figaro
Antietam
The extra clues have a requested triple stumper followed by two the players got correct.
D MIDDLE OF THE WORD $1000: It's a French dialect of Louisiana, ma chere
U.S. COINS $1000: Released in the order in which states ratified the Constitution, the state quarters series began with this one in 1999
ALLITERATIVE LIT $2000: Dickens debuted with this serial about a club & its eccentric members
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Delaware
The Pickwick Papers