Final Jeopardy: Corporate Mascots (10-14-24)

Here are some more clues from the 10/24/2024 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.

MULTIPLES OF 3 ($1000) A duodecennial year refers to a period of this many years

LET’S GO FOR A SPIN ($1000) Here’s a spinning this, patented in 1770; it uses many spindles to do its textile business

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SAYS… ($1000) The ‘Vey is working to protect water flow changes that may affect the plant called wild this grain, sacred to Great Lakes tribes

ASIAN GEOGRAPHY ($400) This country’s Ishikari River, sacred to the Ainu people, has been heavily polluted due to industrial growth

($1600) The capital city Ashgabat sits in this kind of place, a contrast to much of Turkmenistan and the Ashgabatis love their fountains

($2000) In this capital city’s downtown you’ll find the Royal Hashemite Court, aka Al-Maqar or “the Headquarters”

THE CHARACTERS THEY BIRTHED ($800) Ellen O’Hara, Melanie Wilkes

CHOOSE A NAME ($1200) This first name was chosen carefully, including the “C” spelling–unlike, say, Khloe or Kendall

WEDDING SONGS ($800) A popular choice for “Twilight” fans is this one by Christina Perri with a perfectly “millennial” title

($1200) “Everybody clap your” buzzer & name this song by DJ Casper that has grandmas criss-crossing & foot stomping at weddings

ALLITERATION ($000) Before “favorite”, it’s another way to say the one expected to win

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: BEGINS & ENDS WITH “E”
($200) To get hitched without parental consent; in modern less dramatic usage, it means to have a small wedding
($400) This.com offers “on-trend digital invitations” & also “RSVP tracking”
($600) To guarantee, or a nutritional protein shake
($800) Your posse, from French for “to surround”
($1000) Different parts of the pancreas act like these 2 main types of glands

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