Final Jeopardy: Authors (5-16-23)

Here are some more clues from the 5/16/2023 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.

ANIMALS ($2000) This carnivore with retractable claws is seen here not being as terrifying to lemurs as it was in animated form in “Madagascar”

DON’T GO ANYWHERE ($800) Jane Austen used this twice-hyphenated term not about a mom, but an indolent “man”

A 2023 book is titled this 2-word aimless activity: “The Radical Power of Killing Time”

The players got all the clues in WOMEN WORLD LEADERS:
($400) Katrín Jakobsdóttir is prime minister of this island nation
($800) From 2015 to 2023 Bidhya Devi Bhandari was president & head of state of this Himalayan nation
($1200) Sheikh Hasina has been prime minister of this Indian subcontinent nation since 2009
($1600) In 2023, Nicola Sturgeon, best known for advocating this cause, announced she’s stepping down
($2000) In 2023 this 42-year-old prime minister of New Zealand made the surprise announcement she’s leaving the job

WOMEN WORLD LEADERS ANSWERS: show

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Sneak Peek clues — POE PLACES
($200) In “To Helen”, her “naiad airs have brought me home/ to the glory that was Greece, and the grandeur that was” this
($400) Asked what its name is “on the night’s Plutonian shore”, the raven quoths this
($600) In “Lenore” a saintly soul floats on this river of the underworld
($800) This Poe maiden lies “in her sepulchre there by the sea–in her tomb by the sounding sea”
($1000) Poe rhymed this fabled city of gold with “down the valley of the shadow”

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show