Final Jeopardy: Books of the 1960s (1-15-25)

Here are some more clues from the 1/15/2025 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.

FICTIONAL FEMALES ($1000) In this novel Becky Sharpe inspires George to leave his wife, but he gets killed at Waterloo

____ & ____ ($800) In the ’90s this company dropped its Man in the Moon logo after rumors spread that it had satanic elements

($1000) In an Edward Lear poem, this pair “went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat”

POP CULTURE PEOPLE ($800) 2 differing Hot 100 tunes in Oct. 2024: Tate McRae’s “It’s OK I’m OK” & “I Am Not Okay” by this singer with a sponge cake name

DIRECTION TO PERFECTION ($1000) This word that sounds like a geometric figure often precedes “of virtue”

STATE CAPITALS ($800) French explorer Bernard de la Harpe gave what’s now this capital the name “La Petite Roche” in 1722

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: SPITTIN’ SCIENCE FACTS
($200) Tephra is a collective term for the pyroclastic material ejected into the air during this event
($400) This 2-named “colorful” insect differs from other wasps in having wings that fold longitudinally at rest
($600) Symbiotically speaking, it’s the 9-letter word for when both organisms get to thrive
($800) This largest moon of Jupiter is the only known moon in the solar system to have its own magnetic field
($1000) Hermann Muller named these regions of DNA sequences that cap chromosomes from the Greek “telos”, meaning end

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