Final Jeopardy: Fictional Groups (4-30-24)

Here are some more clues from the 4/30/2024 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.

QUESTIONABLE SONG TITLES ($200) The title line of this Whitney Houston song is followed by the line “if he really loves me”

($1000) This Smiths song whose title is an existential question mentions “a shyness that is criminally vulgar” (maybe Morrissey’s?)

STATE MAMMALS ($600) If you think the rare Northern Atlantic species of this cetacean is Massachusetts’ state marine mammal, you’re “correct”

GIVING SOME DIRECTION ($600) In a CCR song, it’s where Willy & the poor boys are playing “out in the street”

THE GAP ON THEIR RESUMES ($1600) Her career includes Gap commercial singing with Madonna & first woman rapper in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

($2000) In happier times (1989), Joan Didion did a Gap ad with this daughter who was named after a state in the Yucatan

BLANK VERSE ($2000) Shelley: “O, wild ____ ____, thou breath of autumn’s being”

5-SYLLABLE WORDS ($400) This adjective describes the Calvinist religious views of the people who settled Mass. as well as the people themselves

LAW SLAW ($1600) As we’ve all been told, federal law–14 CFR 135.127 if you’re curious–prohibits tampering with, disabling or destroying these (Note: It’s in subsection e and applies to airplanes but, most likely just this would have been accepted)

($2000) The Atlantic says courts have consistently ruled police have no specific duty to protect anyone except them

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: A GAP ON THEIR RESUMES
($200) Signore Marco Polo, I understand travel is arduous in the 1200s, but you have no work history in this city of ours for 1/4 century
($400) In a Germanic text from around 1200, Odin taunts this cunning guy about having spent 8 years underground milking cows
($600) The 2 cities where there are references to Will Shakespeare in 1585 & 1592; in between come the “lost years’
($800) On his C.V., this subject of a Bible parable probably would skip the time he “wasted his substance with riotous living’
($1000) In 1966 this future politician left college for 2 1/2 years for a mostly unsuccessful mission to make French people Mormon

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