Final Jeopardy: Literary Characters (11-4-25)

Here are some more clues from the 11/4/2025 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.

8-LETTER WORDS ($800) A popular meme shows Jean-Luc Picard doing this gesture of exasperation

($1000) It’s a small pepper from a variety of Capsicum chinense that’s named for a place in the Caribbean

IN THE BOOK ($600) A girl absconds with a copy of “The Grave Digger’s Handbook”, marking “the beginning of an illustrious career

PUT IT OFF ($000) At university, it can be a “cooperative” servicing helping farmers or a desired putting-off of turning in an assignment (Note: Joyelle answered too late but correctly)

OLD TV SHOW, NEW AUDIENCE ($000) 15 years after Christian explained, “Everything that’s ever happened to you is real” in the finale, this drama has new fans

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: ANCIENT NAMES
($200) Before serving as court physician to the Roman emperor, Galen was chief physician to a group of these trained fighters
($400) Plutarch wrote that this Queen’s beauty was not altogether “incomparable”, but to converse “with her had an irresistible charm”
($600) Considered China’s greatest sage, he’s gotten new endorsement from Xi Jinping, who spoke on his 2,565th birthday in 2014
($800) After this Roman emperor’s death in 117, it’s said his ashes were placed in his column
($1000) Fearing its rise again after the Second Punic War, Cato the Elder ended speeches with this city “must be destroyed”

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