Final Jeopardy: Landmarks (1-2-24)

Here are some more clues from the 1/2/2024 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.

STOCKS & INVESTMENTS ($400) Also used in a different type of gambling, this colorful term describes a stock with a history of paying out

THE CHARLES III KIND ($600) This actor, who was Charles in “The Crown”, says he’d like to ask the king about his experience as a fellow sticky-out-eared man

($1000) Charles helped design the traditional look of Poundbury in this duchy of his that shares its name with a southwest England county

WHAT’S “NEW”? ($2000) It sounds like the latest fad, but it means using the Gregorian calendar for reckoning dates

LET’S TALK ASTRONOMY ($800) An asterism is a recognizable star pattern that isn’t a full constellation, like this familiar one within Cygnus

CHILD PERFORMERS ($1600) In this movie, child actor Jonathan Lipnicki told Tom Cruise the human head weighs 8 pounds

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Sneak Peek clues — CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
($200) It’s the rhyming term for a non serious close encounter between vehicles
($400) If something is approximately correct, it’s “in” this place, like Chase Field
($600) It’s a word for a woman’s garment that can also mean to go around the edge of an area
($800) A decent approximation is “close enough for” this improvisation-based musical genre
($1000) You get an A plus 7 letters in geometry if you know it describes 2 angles with a common side & vertex; it can also just mean “next to”

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