Final Jeopardy: Phrase Origins (11-5-24)

Here are some more clues from the 11/5/2024 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.

CANONIZED SHOTS ($800) Born in this town in France, 14-year-old Bernadette had visions of the Virgin Mary, leading to her canonization by Pope Pius XI

($1000) For his work with lepers in Hawaii, work that would lead to his own death, he was canonized on October 11, 2009

SCIENCE ($400) Dying in a Pasadena hospital in 1985, he followed reports of a terrible earthquake off the coast of Mexico

THE LAWYERS’ NOTES ON MY NEW MEMOIR ($1000) You may refer to this company only as “an Indianapolis-based provider of medicines founded in the year of our nation’s centennial”

A TAXING CATEGORY ($800) In 1943 Congress mandated this process via which employers deduct taxes from workers’ paychecks

($1200) A homonym of a word meaning to cut out, they’re taxes n specific goods, services or activities

“OON” DOGGLE ($1600) In European armies of old, it was a mounted soldier armed with a musket

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: HYPHENATED WORDS
($200) Designed to prevent pilferage, like devices attached to some merchandise
($400) There are 2 hyphens in this word for someone who pretends to omniscience, & I better not hear you call me one
($600) A life-like depiction of a character or, more literally, having length, breadth & depth
($800) A minor role for a stage actor, or an unrecruited athlete who tries out for a college team
($1000) It originally meant a race contestant who performed best while in the lead; now it just means the current leader

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