Final Jeopardy: Trees (1-16-25)

Here are some more clues from the 1/16/2025 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.

EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH ($1000) “Cruel Shoes” by this comedian & book writer includes stories like “Women Without Bones” & “How to Fold Soup”

THE JETE SET ($800) Eugene Loring was the Great American Goof in the 1940 inaugural production of this company with no “American” in its name yet show

($1200) Not Olga Tchikaboumskaya but Olga Lepeshinskaya danced in “The Red Poppy”, a Soviet ballet about this country’s revolution

($1600) Around 1960, a Riga choreography school had 2 future dance stars & film actors: Alexander “Sasha” Godunov & him, young Misha

($2000) Margot Fonteyn famously danced this title water nymph who loves a mortal

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 10-LETTER VOCAB
($200) A work based on something previously published, or any alteration a species makes to survive
($400) It’s a compound word for something like acetaminophen that slays that headache
($600) It’s to pull a Mr. Fantastic & really swivel your noggin to look at a car accident
($800) uncontrollable sleepiness
($1000) rhyming verb meaning to speak showily to impress onlookers, as a politician might

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