Final Jeopardy: Brands (10-10-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 10/10/2022 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.

SPINELESS CREATURES ($1600) Get the crops in, quick! Melanoplus, short-horned these insects, are headed this way, & they look hungry (Note: either response was acceptable)

HOW DID THEY DIE? ($1600) Charlemagne died from this condition, an inflammation of the membrane that lines the chest & covers the lung

ONLY ONE CONSONANT WORD ($800) To droop or dangle; a body part such as your tongue may do it

The players got these 3 of these 4 PEN NAMES clues (The $2K clue was a Daily Double)
($400) Before it was published in book form, his “Treasure Island” appeared in a magazine under the pseudonym Captain George North
($800) Ramona Lofton, whose novel “Push” became the movie “Precious”, goes by this gem of a byname
($1200) After retiring the name, Stephen King claimed this writing alter ego had died from “cancer of the pseudonym”
($1600) They were the pseudonyms of the two contemporaries seen here, who both adopted the same atypical first name

PEN NAME ANSWERS: show

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

Sneak Peek clues — CRITICAL “MASS”
($200) The Shiatsu variety applies pressures to area of the body used in acupuncture
($400) From French, it describes an action taken altogether
($600) Home to 7 million Americans, it’s from an Algonquian word for “at the large hill”
($800) A Satanic version of a Christian religious service or a 2015 movie about criminal Whitey Bulger
($1000) Term for the total plant & animal life in a particular area

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show