Final Jeopardy: Women of History (5-15-25)

Here are some more clues from the 5/15/2025 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.

BESTSELLING NONFICTION ($400) “The Memoir, Part One” is the subtitle of a recent book by this pop culture icon & singer of “Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves”

($600) About a decade ago this late Nobel Prize winner reflected on his experiences from age 90 in “A Full Life”

($1000) The idea of a double self informs this memoir by Naomi Klein, a “Trip into the Mirror World” of being confused with Naomi Wolf

A BARREL OF MONKEYS ($200) Tod Sloan popularized the monkey crouch used in this sport of kings

($1000) aka the Chilean pine, an evergreen of South America is known as this for its sharp, scaly foliage that makes it hard to climb

THE DESERT MENU ($1200) When Chinese talk about where the Gobi Desert is located, they use the words nei & wai, these opposite adjectives ANSWER: show

($2000) About 450 miles east to west, it’s the royal desert highlighted here, & don’t forget the adjective that begins its name

A CATEGORY GOOD ($1600) This less-common feminized term was used by Hawaii’s king in 1878 about Liliuokalani as next in line for the throne

THE NAME ON THE DISEASE ($1600) At a hospital in Norway in 1873, this doctor discovered the leprosy bacillus in a patient’s tissue sample

($2000) Named for Robert from Dublin, this disease causes hyperthyroidism & patients can experience vision loss

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: SAILOR
($400) This popular Gilbert & Sullivan operetta named for a ship is subtitled “The Lass That Loved a Sailor”
($800) “Home is the sailor, home from the sea’, from this Scottish writer’s “Requiem”, is on his grave in Samoa
($1200) The title guy of this Joseph Conrad novel rises through the naval ranks & becomes chief mate
($1600) Here’s a piece from this celebrated American artist, known for capturing all sorts of seaworthy scenes
($2000) Billy Budd is impressed into service as one of these, meaning he’s stationed way up on a mast

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