Celebrity Jeopardy Final: 20th Century People (1-5-23)

Here are some more clues from the 1/5/2023 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.

ROUND 1: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENTS ($500) Singer Bonnie Raitt was arrested in 2001 during a sit-in by the RAN, the “Action Network” for these luxuriant tropical regions

INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY ($100) Caishen, the Chinese god of this supposed “root of all evil” was in one story killed by an arrow shot into a straw effigy of him

($400) Zeus’s lack of wisdom had him swallow his wife Metis when she was pregnant with this daughter, born unusually as seen here

($500) “He who has lost his mind & seeks to find it” is one rendition of the name of this hero whose story is darker in legends than in Longfellowi

MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINES IT AS… ($300) Near the end of the alphabet: “Any of various large raptorial birds…that subsist…on carrion” or a “predatory person”

CHAO!($400) For 8 years Elaine Chao was Secretary of this cabinet department that oversees issues like workers’ health & benefits

($500) In 1929 physicist Chung-Yao Chao observed an early example of this stuff that annihilates with regular stuff

ROUND 2: OBSCURE MOVIE QUOTES ($800) “Really”; in “Avengers: Infinity War”, she was going green as Gamora

($1000) “I know”: her, in an Oscar-winning performance as Sharon Rivers in “If Beale Street Could Talk”

FAMOUS WOMEN ($600) She was Czechoslovakia’s top women’s tennis player when she defected to the U.S. in 1975

($1000) She helped found the State of Israel & in 1969, became its first female prime minister

SEEMS LIKE ANCIENT TIMES ($400) Hannibal brought 37 of these large animals over the Alps to help in his attack on Rome

($600) Title for Egyptian king Ramses the Great, remembered for his wars & building projects around 1250 B.C.

($800) The first 3 kings of Israel were Saul, David & this wise ruler

ROUND 3: PHILOSOPHY ($1200) Existentialist philosophy largely grew in the mid-20th century in this European capital where it’s no doubt being discussed here

IMPERSONATORS ($300) Early 20th century British entertainer Bert Errol is described as a “female impersonator”; today, he might use this royal term

($1200) Later Ed Norton on TV’s “The Honeymooners”, Art Carney got his start in radio, often impersonating this 1930s president

BOOZY PHRASES ($300) This booze comes before “up” in a phrase meaning to create interest or enthusiasm

($900) Chardonnay, adult females & “Home On The Range” (for example) make up this phrase for good times

($1200) Servers brought 1950s businesspeople a trio of drinks over the course of this type of “lunch”, which was of course deductible

OFFICIAL STATE STUFF ($300) Originally performed to honor the gods, it’s the state dance of Hawaii

THEY WERE TEACHERS ($600) Colby Burnett: “Largely inspired by her mother, a kindergarten teacher, Quinta Brunson created & stars in this ABC sitcom about teachers in an underfunded school in Philadelphia, Quinta’s hometown”