Final Jeopardy: Novel Characters (2-9-24)

Here are some more clues from the 2/9/2024 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.

NUMERICAL TELEVISION ($2000) Would you believe these were the 2 code numbers used by the 2 main CONTROL agents fighting KAOS on “Get Smart!”

POETRY ($1000) Wallace Stevens wrote, “Among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye of” this creature

____ OF ____ ($2000) Yom Kippur is also known by this name because it’s set aside to repent & ask for forgiveness

AMERICAN HISTORY ($2000) Still going in Macon, a college with this Methodist-conscious name was the USA’s first chartered to grant degrees to women

LET’S HAVE A WORD ($1200) Want the perk of being respected for your vocabulary? Then show us you known that “perk” is short for this small privilege

SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT LYRICS ($800) This 1956 Elvis Presley title “found a new place to dwell” with Whitney Houston; different lyrics, of course

ADD A LETTER: GEOGRAPHY EDITION ($2000) The Midwest’s 29th state & a Colorado county, both named after Native American peoples

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

Sneak Peek clues — SEC & THE CITY
($200) University of Florida: thisville
($400) University of Tennessee: thisville
($600) University of Arkansas: thisville
($800) University of Mississippi: this city
($1000) University of Missouri: this city

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5 Responses

  1. Jason says:

    I was 3/3 on DDs, but missed FJ, with no answer. However, I knew, cold, the Duke of Wellington, as Arthur Wellesley was the first Duke.

    Still, quite a very good game!

  2. Howard says:

    Heck of a comeback by Emma. Felt bad for her for that reversal. I took French for 10 years, and didn’t know till now that “circonflexe” ends with an e. We read the Bronte novel in 8th grade, 50 years ago, but I was stumped.

    Did not expect them to know the Animals/ELO/Sia “Don’t” song or the “Get Smart” agent numbers. I didn’t watch that show much, but those two numbers are unforgettable. I certainly expected answers to the full meaning of “perk,” the alternate name of Yom Kippur, the Elvis place to dwell.

  3. Rick says:

    Yes, Emma got the FJ right, and no small wonder in view of her profession. As for me, I started out rather slow at first during the game, and then racked up a sizeable score. No, I didn’t get the FJ since I wasn’t familiar at all with that novel.