Final Jeopardy: Phrase Origins (5-29-25)

Here are some more clues from the 5/29/2025 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.

FRUIT ($400) Grown Down Under, it’s also known as the Chinese gooseberry

WORDS FOUND IN JUICY BY BIGGIE ($200) Last name of wine merchant Claude; his family later went into business with the Chandons

($600) Langston Hughes wondered if one of these might “stink” or “crust” or just “explode” over time

($800) In ancient times one of these units of measurement equaled the weight of a seed from a carob tree

THE GREAT SQUALL ($200) In this author’s story “A Descent into the Maelström”, a character’s hair goes from “raven-black” to white after a storm

($600) This murder mystery play first performed in London in 1952 is set in Monkswell Manor during a snowstorm

($1000) In a Shakespearean storm, King Lear is joined by his fool & by this character disguised as poor Tom

LEADING FROM THE FRONT ($2000) Escorted by only a handful of Marines, Abraham Lincoln visited this still-smoldering city on April 4, 1865

ON THE MAP ($800) Rossini’s opera “The Italian Girl in” this North African capital opens at the palace of Mustafa–of course it does

($2000) North of Australia, the second-largest island in the world is split politically between these 2 nations

RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES ($1200) A Baptist church with this biblical name opened in London in 1861, a few years before another faith opened one in Utah

CELEBRITY WOMEN ($1600) In 2021 she was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame for a second time–by Angela Bassett, who played her on film

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: MORTAL MATTERS
($200) The rhyme “divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived” tell you the fate of his wives
($400) Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, who identified the 5 stages of grief, also spent many years studying these, NDEs for short
($600) This pop artist survived a gunshot wound in 1968 but died in 1987 of cardiac arrest following gall bladder surgery
($800) In the Bible after he is killed with a single stone to the forehead, his head is cut off with his own sword
($1000) After years of declining health, this poet died in the arms of her beloved Robert in 1861

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