Final Jeopardy: Animation (10-8-25)

Here are some more clues from the 10/8/2025 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.

LET’S FIX THAT CAR ($800) Misfires, rough idling, poor acceleration… time to replace these ceramic & metal parts that screw into the cylinders

($1000) Yikes, it needs this “job” named for the cylinder head parts that have to be reconditioned–a new engine might be cheaper

IN DECIPHERABLE ($1200) It’s an utter catastrophe! A situation of complete failure! It’s this word from the French for “unbar”!

($2000) Seen here, it’s a 15th century battle axe & pike mounted on a six-foot handle

AN OPEN QUESTION ($1600) Where is this captain’s fabled treasure? Oak Island? Gardiner’s Island? The Jersey Shore? Who knows?

THE NIC CAGE PLAYLIST ($400) This Rolling Stones song repeats, “Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name” quite a few times

($1200) This Sheryl Crow song begins, “Life springs eternal on a gaudy neon street”

($1600) Moon Unit Zappa relates, “Like, my mother is, like, a total space cadet” in this 1980s song

($2000) Buddy Holly told us, “She’s the one, I’ve been told, now, she’s wearing a band of gold”

BROADWAY PLAY REVIVALS ($400) Bobby Cannavale: “In this movie, Al Pacino was Ricky Roma; in a 2012 revival of the play, I got to play the hot shot real estate salesman, Ricky, & Al was the desperate Shelley Levene”

($2000) Neil Patrick Harris: “A play version of “Dracula” ran 261 performances, opening in 1927; 50 years later, after the movies made the Count a household name, it ran almost a thousand, starring this man in a role he was born to play”

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: SHIFT THE STRESS (they needed to say the word both ways. Example: PREZent / PreZENT)
($200) To find someone guilty & someone in jail after being found guilty
($400) An electoral procedure to remove a public official & to remember
($600) A political demonstration & to object
($800) To make & vegetables
($1000) To bring together & a harvesting machine

ANSWERS: show