Final Jeopardy: Children’s Books (5-22-23)

Here are some more clues from the 5/22/2023 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.

ART IMITATING LIFE ($1000) This sculptor & painter of Western life took on Yankee football with the 1890 painting “Touchdown Yale vs. Princeton”

AMERICANA ($1000) A 19th century flirtation device, this type of bonnet was named for the way it would extend, protrude, to be precise, this verb beyond the face

IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM ($600) Solve for x: 3x – 2y = 11, when y =2

($1000) Louis XIV deals with a family “problem” (well, for Louis, anyway) by giving Philippe the title headwear in this Dumas novel

HISTORIC PEOPLE ($1600) Seen here this Lakota leader who resisted U.S. government incursions in search of gold, got his name from a site in the sky, also seen here (image)

A LOSS FOR WORDS ($1600) This 11-letter word for a period of mourning after a loss comes from an old word for “steal”

WALKING IN A REDWOOD FOREST ($800) A 2022 study noted the wandering type of this tailed amphibian can parachute some 300 feet down from a redwood tree

POP CULTURE 2003 ($400) The final episode of “Dawson’s Creek” killed off Jen, played by her

($800) Ann Coulter & Chris Rock both appeared on the 2003 premiere episode of this current Bill Maher series

($1600) I’m going to Wichita to tell you Spin magazine’s Top Album of the Year was their “Elephant”

($2000) This hero of books by Patrick O’Brian came to cinemas in the person of Russell Crowe

RICE PUDDING($1600) “A lot of shoes, a lot of rice” in this old song about a wedding that doesn’t end in happily ever after

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Sneak Peek clues — “YO”, I’LL SOLVE IT
($200) To sing like a Swiss mountaineer…wanna become a legend & give it a shot
($400) ($400) It’s the weapon seen here if you get our point
($600) This type of carnivorous canine is seen in all states except Hawaii
($800) It’s the less-than-flattering 5-letter term for a naïve, rural local
($1000) From Spanish, it’s a water-carved gully found primarily in the U.S. Southwest

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