Final Jeopardy: U.S. Businesses (11-28-24)

Here are some more clues from the 11/28/2024 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.

LIFE SCIENCE ($400) Fish need shade too, sometimes provided by these, the floating leaves of plants such as Nuphar advena

($600) A desire to work in the kelping professions may lead you to phycology, defined as the study of these

($800) Geneticist Polly Fordyce dislikes this term for the 98% of DNA that is non-coding; much of it does come out in gene expression

TURKEY DAY ($600) Made with molten glass, a nazar boncuğu is a Turkish amulet used for protection against this negative force

GEOGRAPHY ($1600) Maxing around 160 feet deep, the relatively shallow Korea Bay is the northeastern arm of this “colorful” sea

A REAL SMOKE SHOW ($400) We’re still not too sure about a lot that happened on this ABC show, but for sure the Man in Black is also the Smoke Monster

A PROJECT ($1200) In “Project Hail Mary” by this author, the amnesiac Ryland Grace has to save the Earth & find out how he got “beach-bod buff”

-OLOGY ($800) In “Middlemarch” Mr. Casaubon is writing a book on this & in debating “the solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight”

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: FUN WITH ZIP CODES
($200) 89109 is the zip code for most of the hotels on this city’s strip
($400) Batter up & head to this Chavez Ravine ballpark that’s not in 90210 but in its anagram, 90012
($600) The city of Schenectady has 11 zip codes; the highest in number is this, & it’s easy as…
($800) When writing to this famous residence, use the zip code 20500
($1000) Zip codes go up to 99950, which belongs to a city in this state

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