Final Jeopardy: American Authors (2-24-25)

Here are some more clues from the 2/24/2025 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.

CELEBRITIES ($800) His memoir “From Under the Truck” chronicles being raised in Paso Robles & his roles in “Goonies” & “No Country for Old Men”

($1200) In 2024 she won the Jackie Joyner Kersey Award for top U.S. female track & field athlete

($2000) This “SNL” actor found viral success as a doctor/model, wedding crasher, off-key singer & cuckolder Domingo

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: SOME ART, SOME SCIENCE
($200) The name of this decorative art style that arose in France in the 1700s came in part from using rocks to decorate grottos
($400) The brightest star in this constellation is Al Tarf, Arabic for “The End”; it marks the end of a leg on the crab
($600) A year after finishing this iconic painting featuring a glowing yellow crescent mon, Van Gogh was van gone
($800) New to Paris, this Russian-Jewish artist painted a cubist-ish “Homage to” the avant-garde poet Apollinaire in 1911-12
($1000) It’s Chemistry 101, people! The tables were turned when this radioactive element, No. 101, was named for a Russian chemist

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