Final Jeopardy: Landmarks (1-1-24)

Here are some more clues from the 1/xx/2024 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.

IT’S AN EX-CAR FOR A REASON ($1000) Road & Track said this 3-letter brand’s Gremlin, launched on April Fools’ Day 1970, “stretched the definition of car”

TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS ($400) Idiomatically, you don’t wanna be naked like this feathered fellow seen here

($1200) Going all the way from A to C, this scientific term means not associated with living organisms

RETIRED ($800) This Ben & Jerry’s flavor, vanilla ice cream with a nutty brittle, was sent up the Amazon river in 1999

($1200) In 1990 Crayola’s first group of crayons to be permanently retired included lemon yellow & this “raw” brown

($2000) Alphabetically, the list of retired hurricane names in the Atlantic runs from Agnes (1972) to this “W”oman (2005)

MISHEARD LYRICS ($800) Many have sung along to the radio, “I left my brains down in” here

($1200) A classic by this singer turns out not to be about a hip minister called “the Reverend Blue Jeans”

KNOW SEA ($1600) Travel southwest from this country across the Sulu Sea & you’ll hit Malaysia

($2000) Both the cute critter seen here (image) & a sea off Antarctica have this 7-letter name, after a British explorer

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Sneak Peek clues — HAUNTING LITERATURE
($200) Scrooge hears from this man that even after being dead for 7 years, he found “no rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse”
($400) The ghost of Delbert Grady advises Jack Torrance on family matters in this novel; that does not work out well for anybody
($600) The ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff until he himself exits the land of the living in this 1847 novel
($800) In a sequel, this character plays for the New Orleans Saints, crashes the Exxon Valdez & sees the ghost of Jenny, his childhood friend
($1000) 166 ghosts, one the president’s son, exist in a sort of pre-afterlife in George Saunders’ “Lincoln in” this space

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