Final Jeopardy: Literature & Sickness (2-17-25)

Here are some more clues from the 2/17/2025 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.

2-WORD RHYMES ($600) It’s a hip way to say a convertible as mentioned in the opening salvo of “Bad & Boujee”

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES ($1200) In 2005 a new dwarf planet was announced; it was nicknamed Xena & the 10th planet before astronomers settled on this name

The players got all the clues in NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS:
($200) This 1979 character’s “Choice” has entered the language often meaning decisions much easier than hers
($400) Dickens wrote of this novel that Nicholas is not intended to appear blameless: “he is a young man of an impetuous temper”
($600) I’m reading the first Narnia book, “The Li–“; “nuh-uh, the first is this one about Digory because the stuff in it happens first”
($800) In a Lew Wallace novel, this title charioteer witnesses the crucifixion of Jesus
($1000) This Laurence Sterne character wishes that during his conception, mom hadn’t asked dad, did you forget to wind the clock?

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: ALBUM FILL IN THE BLANK (Note: ___ = 1 word)
($400) Lil Wayne’s last name & the top-selling album in the U.S. of 2008: “Tha ___ III”
($800) Justin Timberlake, seeing clearly in 2013: “The ___/___ Experience”
($1200) Prince & the New Power Generation with a bejeweled pair in 1991: “___ & ___”
($1600) Kanye’s 2010 album with “Power” & “Runaway”: “My ___ ___ ___ Fantasy”
($2000) Post Malone goin’ country in 2024: “F-1 ___”

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