Final Jeopardy: U.S. Place Names (12-25-24)

Here are some more clues from the 12/25/2024 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.

THE NOVEL CHAPTER ($200) “An Important Passenger on the Taurus Express”

I’M SO INDICTED ($800) This, continuously going online to harass or threaten people with physical harm, got an ex-privacy consultant 9 years in 2024

($1000) Indict someone for intent to maim that may include body-part severance & be “better protected from” this felony, “like me”

FOOT BALL ($000) It’s extremely rare now, but this play in which the ball is kicked after it hits the ground is still legal in the NFL

THINKING ABOUT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE ($400) 17th c. leader Murad IV executed drinkers of this nonalcoholic beverage & closed the “houses” where they met, seen as hotbeds of sedition

($1200) Osman I, who gave his name to the empire, beat a force from this predecessor empire at the 1302 Battle of Bapheus

ALL KINDS OF MUSIC ($2000) Experts in this “anatomical” form of singing practiced in Central Asia can produce 2 tones simultaneously

MOLLUSKS ($000) Discovered in the Great Lakes in 1988, the zebra species of this mollusk is an invasive one, originally from Russia

HAPPY 100th, ROD SERLING ($400) Merry Xmas Eve! In a classic “Twilight Zone”, Art Carney loses his job as this “uniquely popular American institution “

($2000) For both TV & film, Rod wrote “Patterns”, this type of drama named for a corporate spot where non-movie directors meet (Note: see description after 1956 film)

“A”CRONYMS & “A”BBREVIATIONS ($1600) Signed in 1951, a security treaty between the United States & 2 Down Under nations is known by this acronym

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 5, 5
($200) A numerical way of saying, half favorable, half unfavorable
($400) A type of bird is in this rhyming adjective meaning mushy or overly sentimental
($600) Nuda veritas, it goes back to a fable where falsehood personified steals some clothes
($800) It’s a projection formed by the biggest part of the larynx
($1000) Stokely Carmichael said, “We have to organize ourselves to speak for each other. That’s” this slogan

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