Final Jeopardy: Authors (10-24-22)

Here are some more clues from the 10/24/2022 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.

CRUNCH ($800) Supercomputers crunch numbers in the form of this “large” 2-word buzz term for the tidal wave of digital information

($1000) Crepitus, crunching in the joints, is a symptom of degenerative joint disease, also called this form of arthritis

SAY WHAT? ($2000) This word meaning “can’t understand what was said” appears often in the Nixon library transcripts of Watergate tapes

NEWS MAKERS & WRITERS ’22 ($800) Queen Elizabeth II’s last appearance was to appoint this woman as the 15th prime minister of her majesty’s reign

($1200) Testifying before Congress in 2019, Robert Mueller asked several lawmakers to do this, including Devin Nunes with a near 100-worder

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Sneak Peek clues — I PLAYED A REAL PERSON
($200) “Super Pumped” stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Travis Kalanick, founder of this rideshare service
($400) Jesse Eisenberg played this guy, still at Harvard in “The Social Network”
($600) This actor had his eyes glued shut daily to play Ray Charles i “Ray”
($800) Josh Gad & Seth Rogen have both played this electrical engineer– in “Jobs” & “Steve Jobs”, respectively
($1000) Robert De Niro trained with the real Jake LaMotta for his portrayal of him in this 1980 film

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