Final Jeopardy: Famous Animals (10-17-22)

Here are some more clues from the 10/17/2022 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.

AN IMPRESSIVE VOCABULARY ($400) A hand-held optical instrument lends its name to this adjective referring to a mix of shifting colors

ACTORS GET THEIR ROLES MIXED UP ($1600) Formerly an assassin & the boss of the Crazy 88, I’ve also branched out to practice law in Boston

($2000) Being half of a legendary Wild West outlaw duo gave me the courage to take the ice for the Charleston Chiefs

“IF” AT FIRST… ($2000) In a rousing 1765 Patrick Henry speech criticizing Britain, these 4 words preceded “make the most of it”

ANAGRAMS ($800) A chef’s finishing touch: REPLAYS

HERE’S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE ($400) The 2021 Einstein Prize went to Clifford Martin Will & Saul Teukolsky for “contributions to observational tests of general” this

($800) Frederick Sanger is the only 2-time winner of the Nobel Prize in this, for work on proteins in 1958 & nucleic acids in 1980

BUT I HAVE THIS HISTORIC MEETING ($800) In what’s now the city of Sovetsk in 1807, Napoleon & the ruler in this job met on a raft so it wouldn’t be on anyone’s home turf

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Sneak Peek clues — COMMON BONDS
($200) cypress, eagle, Mussorgsky’s Mountain
($400) alarm, teeth, a deceptive “flag”
($600) turkey, front, a cruel & unfeeling person’s blood
($800) Grape jelly, your wings, wildfire
($1000) chair, tide, spirits

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