Final Jeopardy: Films of the 1990s (5-13-26)

Here are some more clues from the 5/13/2026 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.

THE CELEBRITY’S FAVORITE TEAM ($200) Timothée Chalamet— cheering as they beat the Celtics in the 2025 playoffs

($600) Daniel Craig who grew up on the Wirral Peninsula, this city’s famed football club

($1000) Kid Rock, who got to party with the Stanley Cup

PEOPLE GETTING TOGETHER ($800) In a somber moment at this 1963 event, NAACP head Roy Wilkins told the crowd that W.E.B. Du Bois had died the day before

($1200) This 13th c. effort waged by “Pueri” may not have happened, but if it did, it didn’t have papal approval or reach the Holy Land

($2000) Mother of musician Fela, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti led 1940s mass protests that challenged the colonial structure in this country

WORDS OF ASSORTMENT ($400) This 2-word expression derives from hunting, where it referred to an assortment of offed birds & the sack to carry them home

($1200) There’s a word for a cooking vessel in this noun meaning diverse assortment, which is fitting since it was once a word for meat stew

($2000) The literary critic Fredric Jameson dismissed this type of art, made up of parts drawn from many sources, as “blank parody”

THAT SONG IS QUITE COMMERCIAL ($1200) Brands from Apple to NASCAR used this band’s song “Ride”, as in “Ri-ide with me ho-o-ome”

($2000) Arthritis drug Enbrel used an instrumental of this ’90s band’s “Alright”

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: IT’S IN THE BOOK
($400) As she’s falling down a hole in an 1865 work, she dreams of walking “hand in hand” with her cat Dinah; it gives one paws…
($800) In “The Long Goodbye” by this author, P.I. Philip Marlowe feels “as hollow & empty as the spaces between the stars”
($1200) In an autobiography by this poet who passed in 2014, she calls William Shakespeare her “first white love”
($1600) In “1Q84” by this Japanese author, Aomame sees “two moons… clearly floating in the sky”
($2000) Near the end of a work by this author, Lila tells her pal, “You’re my brilliant friend, you have to be the best of all, boys and girls”

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