Final Jeopardy: Authors’ Afterlives (4-12-24)

Here are some more clues from the 4/12/2024 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.

STOCK PHOTOS, KINDA ($1000) This company’s stock started trading with its IPO on September 22, 1981

WE’VE GOT TODAY’S HITS ($400) With a Bananarama-riffic title, this Taylor Swift song dominated the fall in 2023, staying at No. 1 for weeks

($1000) People were “lovin on me”… well, not me, but him when he took that tune to No. 1

($1000) This governor resigned from politics 2 months after losing the 1876 presidential election to Rutherford B. Hayes

AMERICAN BIRDS ($800) If you’re birding west of the Rockies, you’re likely to catch sight of the California scrub type of this bird

($2000) John Cassin, from a Quaker family in Delaware County, became a famed ornithologist in this city & named a vireo after it

THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT ($2000) The star of a 2023 HBO doc, this poet & her work “Black Judgment” helped take the Black Arts Movement to national prominence

DROP IN… ($1600) From a word meaning penniless to get this word for a liquid in chemistry like an ester or ketone

The players missed 3 clues in THAT’S SO CRINGE:
($200) It can mean to lack dexterity but it doesn’t lack for Ws, with 2; well, this is…
($400) If you’re sensitive to a certain touch, you’ll giggle, but this adjective also describes a tricky situation that needs a sensitive touch
($600) From the Latin for “death”, it can indeed mean to render necrotic but it’s more associated as a word meaning to embarrass
($800) Spelled differently, one of the moon’s is waxing crescent, but for category purposes, it means to dismay or confuse
($1000) Anxious? Uncomfortable? You’re this 3-word phrase that sounds like a sick military command

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: FADS
($200) This groovy type of shirt was especially popular around the time of Woodstock
($400) Here’s our version of this big fad of the 1970s, googly eyes optional
($600) At the height of this craze a man dashed across the stage during the Oscars “showing his shortcomings”, as David Niven put it
($800) Focus now; a few years back these gizmos were all the rage
($1000) One of the more worthy fads, the Ice Bucket Challenge launched in 2014 raised $115 million to fight this disease

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