Final Jeopardy: American History (1-8-25)

Here are some more clues from the 1/8/2025 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.

MAKING SOME BONES ABOUT IT ($400) Types of bone fractures include simple (aka closed) or this (aka open)

($1000) There are five of these bones between the wrist & the fingers; they are numbered 1 through 5, with 1 corresponding to the thumb

FLYING IN STATE ($600) It’s only a 337-mile flight from LAX to the airport in San Mateo county known by these 3 letters

SPORTS BY MOVIE ($400) “Balls of Fury”

GOOD ENOUGH ($400) This adjective means just okay, as in “Your AirBNB will be ____ to my needs”

($1200) Things are pretty good or at least not too bad, so “everything’s” this first name

($1600) There’s a thespian trapped inside this 5-syllable good enough word (Note: trapped word between 6th and last letters)

GOVERNMENT WORK ($2000) Keeping contractors from cheating Uncle Sam is your task if you’re in the Office of Procurement Policy within OMB, Office of these

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: YOUR NUMBER IS UP
($200) This number in the name of a motel chain reflects how much rooms cost in cash per night when it opened in 1962
($400) While some consider this number to be unlucky, Taylor Swift says it’s her favorite number & finds it very lucky
($600) The first 2-digit prime number, it can be a winning first throw in craps, called a natural
($800) Established in 1947 as one of the original U.S. area codes, it gets you Washington, D.C.
($1000) A googol is 10 to the hundredth power; this number is 10 to the power of a googol

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