Celebrity Jeopardy Final: Artists (11-15-23)

Here are some more clues from the 11/15/2023 Celebrity 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.

Jeopardy! round

TV DRAMAS IN A NUTSHELL ($300) An MI6 agent & a wily assassin known as “Villanelle” have it bad for each other

($500) A young doctor gets acquainted with the quirky locals when he opens a practice in Cicely, Alaska

RAIN ($500) Sometimes called “phantom rain”, virga are wisps of precipitation that never make it to the ground; they do this instead

CRINGEWORTHY OFFICE LINGO ($200) This 2-word phrase meaning “chat” or “connect” may have started as a sports metaphor; overusing it is now a national pastime

($300) It’s a way of saying “reconnect later”, with a dash of needless geometry thrown in for good measure

($500) It’s a 3-word phrase meaning “at one’s own expense”– & a needlessly wordy way of saying “unavailable”

Double Jeopardy! round

SCIENCE MUSEUMS ($1000) Hey, fulcrum lovers! At Columbus, Ohio’s Center of Science & Industry, kids can lift a 2,437-lb. car using this bar

SIX DEGREES OF ACTUAL BACON ($400) Mayo is in egg salad with hard-boiled eggs, which are with bacon atop this salad, first served at LA’s Brown Derby

($800) Tomato sauce is in Sloppy Joes with beef, & beef is with bacon in this beloved Wendy’s burger, introduced in 2007

SAD SONGS ($600) At the 2020 Grammys, Alicia Keys & this trio sang “It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye To Yesterday” in a tribute to Kobe Bryant

($800) This handsome crooner revealed that after a bad breakup, he wrote “Somebody’s Crying Inside A Closet At A Party”

“N-I-A-L” AIN’T A ($600) It describes the “first pitch” thrown by a guest of honor at a baseball game — a nice way of saying it doesn’t actually count

Reversal – COMPETITIVE CHEERLEADING ($800) It’s no picnic being a flyer in this flashy stunt where teammates lock hands, fling you into the air, and hopefully catch you – They were looking for “basket toss” but rejected Rachel’s basket, Mack’s basket catch and Becky’s basket throw. Laater deciding they should have accepted “basket”, Rachel got credit. Mack and Becky got their $$ back.

Triple Jeopardy! round

U.S. “WORLD CAPITALS ($1500) “Once the “logging capital of the world”, this city in Washington State is now best known as the setting of the “Twilight” saga

Celebrity Jeopardy Semi-Finalists:
09-27-23 Utkarsh Ambudkar
10-04-23 Lisa Ann Walter
10-11-23 Katie Nolan
10-18-23 Steven Weber
10-25-23 Mira Sorvino
11-1-23 Dulé Hill
11-15-23 Rachel Dratch