Final Jeopardy: Cars & The Movies (5-28-25)

Here are some more clues from the 5/28/2025 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.

GOING TO THE DOGS ($1000) This retriever’s ancestors include two St. John’s Water Dogs rescued from an 1807 shipwreck off Maryland

ENTERTAINING WOLVERINES ($1000) “People will come, Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom” is intoned in a classic scene by this 1955 alum

HAT CHAT ($600) If your brain is abuzz with an obsession, you have this headgear affliction

19th CENTURY AMERICANS ($2000) After Little Bighorn, this Lakota leader fled to Canada & later joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

DOUBLE VOWELS & DOUBLE CONSONANTS ($800) A type of jester; Prokofiev wrote a ballet about one who “outjested” 7 others

CRIME FICTION ($400) Patricia Cornwell’s forensic ace Kay Scarpetta debuted in this 1990 thriller, a Latin synonym for autopsy

($800) The 1951 “Bloody Christmas” beating of prisoners by Los Angeles police is dramatized in this James Ellroy novel

FESTIVALS ($400) The Newport, R.I. festival with this type of music in its name is the setting for a big scene in the movie “A Complete Unknown”

($1200) Floriade, which has bloomed into Australia’s biggest flower festival began in 1988, celebrating this city’s 75th birthday

A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE ($400) To the Ancient Romans,a lustrum was the 5-year interval between these counts

($1600) In nuclear physics, a shake is the time it takes each neutron to trigger a fission event in one of these self-sustaining processes

NOTHING GOOD ON TV ($1200) Survivors of Armageddon living on a space station send juvenile prisoners down to Earth to test its habitability

($1600) Residents of a mall town in Kansas think they many be the only Americans left following an observed nuclear explosion

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: BUSINESS “&” BUSINESS
($200) Band-Aid & Tylenol are now under the parent company Kenvue, spun off from this healthcare company in 2023
($400) This brand offers Impretzively Fudged, Karamel Sutra & Cookie Vermont-ster
($600) The 20V MAX PowerConnect Cordless Circular Saw provides a slice of life from this brand
($800) In 1935 this company first brandished its .357 Magnum
($1000) Founded in 1971, this bath, body & hair care chain named for 2 17th century Brits began as a small shop called the Soap Box

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