Final Jeopardy: Art & Artists (2-27-25)

Here are some more clues from the 2/27/2025 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.

OF (GREEK) MYTHICAL PROPORTIONS ($1000) Half woman, half serpent but 100% dangerous, this monster whose name is also that of an Aussie mammal was the Sphinx’ mom

“X” MARKS THE BRAND ($600) This gum brand makes Refreshers, gum that’s coated in tiny crystals with a chewy center

TALES OF ADVENTURE ($2000) As a teen in Montana, he camped, fletched arrows and forged knives to create the adventurous world of Eragon

BODY HUMAN ($1600) The meninges, the protective sheaths around the brain & spinal column, are the arachnoid & the dura mater & this other mater

ONE-WORD ANAGRAMS ($1200) This indicatory volume: indicatory

($1600) These may reduce your liability: discounted

($2000) This adjective that might apply to a nonscientist’s way of thinking: nonscientist

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: LOOK & SEE THE DOUBLE VOWELS
($200) You can be doing this (presently) both down an airport runway or 42nd Street in public transportation
($400) It’s this job: now who wants to bid $100 I hear $100 thank you do I hear 2 yes 2 OK now 4! $400 once…twice…sold for $400!
($600) You know how to play this instrument, aka mirliton, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together around it & blow…I mean, hum. You hum
($800) 2 U’s have different sounds in this word for an unbroken line or sequence
($1000) Flowering plants, or old-timey loose trousers that women used to wear for athletics

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