Final Jeopardy: American Literature (12-12-23)

Here are some more clues from the 12/11/2023 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.

ANIMALS ($800) The Chinese zodiac’s 12-year cycle begins & ends with these 2 3-letter animals

YES, I’VE ETON ($800) As a student at Eton, he did not have his own laptop computer, despite being second in line to the British throne

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Sneak Peek clues — I’M ABSOLUTELY SURE
($200) He was the host of “Jeopardy” back in 1964
($400) There are this many feet in 2 statute miles
($600) It’s an apple developed in Japan in the 1930s or a mountain developed much earlier
($800) This planet is 318 times as massive as Earth
($1000) This worldwide secret society founded its first British grand lodge in 1717

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More Jeopardy! clues on “Moby-Dick” chapters:

10-03-2022: CHAPTER ($200) Chapter 106: “Ahab’s Leg”
09-30-2021: CHAPTER & VERSE ($600) Chapter 128 of “Moby Dick” is this ship “Meets the Rachel”
07-26-2016: BOOKS BY CHAPTER TITLES ($400) “Queequeg in His Coffin”
04-07-2016: THE FINAL CHAPTER ($800: 1851: “The Chase–Third Day”

FINAL JEOPARDY! clues:

09-24-2008 NOVELS: This title character of an 1851 work doesn’t show up until Chapter 133
02-05-1999 AMERICAN LITERATURE: The book of Jonah is quoted before Chapter One of this 1851 novel
01-06-1994 FAMOUS NOVELS: Chapter 32 of this novel is titled “Cetology”