Final Jeopardy: Boats & Ships (5-2-25)

Here are some more clues from the 5/2/2025 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.

WORLD HISTORY ($600) “Emancipation”, a 2024 book, compares the end of American slavery with the freeing of these Russian peasants, also in the 1860s

($1000) In 2011 the coffin of this man dead many years was removed from his crypt in Chile for an autopsy

A LITTLE BIT OF LIT ($800) Mark this Cuban character who got top billing over “the Sea” (at least as “The Old Man”) in 1952

($1000) These 3 words repeated 3 times follow “rose” in perhaps Gertrude Stein’s most famous quote

BEAVER FEVER ($400) Starting in 1950s TV commercials, Bucky Beaver was the mascot for Ipana, a brand of this hygiene item

($1000) The swamp beaver is another name for this rodent originally from South America, but now with feral U.S. populations

“POP”-POURRI ($400) The Sherman brothers wrote “Stay Awake” for this classic Disney movie

GOVERNORS ($800) He liked to say he was a “small fish” in D.C., but down in the southern state where he was governor, he was kind of a big deal

($2000) In 1992 she helped kickstart the Texas Lottery to help fund public schools; she bought the first ticket, too

CLASSICAL MUSIC ($800) For 50 years, Arthur Fiedler was the maestro of this Beantown orchestra famous for playing light classical works

FROM THE BRONX ($800) Raised in the Bronx, she was nicknamed for a brand of rum & has a sister Hennessy, named for a cognac brand

($1600) She gained fame after starring in “Fame” & co-writing & recording the theme to “Flashdance”; baby, remember her name

ECHO-NOMICS ($1200) Boycotts that had success included of Ford in the 1920s (over Henry’s views) & these fruits in the 1960s for farmworker rights

FANCY A WORD? ($800) A gentleman with an “air” of confidence may be this adjective, from Old French for “of good lineage”

($1200) A classy citizen of the world, it comes to us from the decidedly unclassy Oscar the Grouch of Ancient Greece, Diogenes

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 4-LETTER SYNONYMS
($200) kismet
($400) prima donna, in opera or otherwise
($600) killer whale
($800) epic or lyrical poet
($1000) margarine

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