Final Jeopardy: Novel Quotes (5-31-22)

Here are some more triple stumpers from the 5/x/2022 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.

MAYORS ($400) Its mayors have included Josiah Quincy, arranger of a certain market

($1000) Elected in Chicago in 2019, this alliterative mayor made news when she had different views from the Teachers’ Union in 2021

BOOK OF THE YEAR ($1000) “Daybreak-2250 A.D.” is by prolific author Alice Mary Norton, better known to sci-fi fans by this first name

WOOD ($400) The shagbark species of this tree can produce seeds until it’s 300 years old–“old” this indeed

($800) Often made from a 12-foot piece of oak, the wagon part extending to the left connects to a horse & has this anatomical name

SEND A LETTER ($200) The apostolic letters or books of the New Testament

($400) From the Latin for “ask”, it’s a letter to a publisher to see if they might be interested in a work you’re submitting

IT ONLY BORDERS ONE COUNTRY ($1600) The Islamic Sultanate of Brunei is in 2 parts, each of which borders only this nation, on the island of Borneo

SCIENCE ($800) The largest known of these compounds, titin has over 34,000 amino acids; its full chemical name has more than 34,000 characters

IT’S A FLAT-OUT FACT ($2000) Some Native Americans practiced skull binding for a rounded look; Lewis & Clark called the Salish this because they didn’t

Reversal: SEND A LETTER ($1000) A letter of marque was a government grant to a private individual to engage in naval operations otherwise considered this – Carissa’s response of “privateering” was initially accepted as the same thing as “piracy”, but the judges changed their minds.

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Sneak Peek clues — SNL CAST MEMBERS ON FILM
($400) As “The Nutty Professor”
($800) As “The Wedding Singer”
($1200) In “Meatballs”
($1600) As “Joe Dirt”
($2000) As Mila Kunis’ best friend in “The Spy Who Dumped Me”

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5 Responses

  1. Trevor Panno says:

    The wood category was very popular if you remembered watching “Jeopardy!” from 3 1/2 decades ago.

  2. Jason says:

    Those three “Books of the year” TS, I got correct, despite reading none of them. However, I totally did NOT get FJ!

    Not a lot I can say about this one. However, the bumper at the end did say that, tomorrow, one of the challengers is from Philadelphia. So, that will be two people from the same city!

  3. Rick says:

    Wow, still another tough FJ. These FJ’s lately are either incredibly easy or stumpers.

    • VJ says:

      Yeah, I don’t think I would have got this in the allotted time even if I hadn’t completely misread the FJ! clue. I thought they wanted the name of a novel and the first one to pop in my head from a Burns poem was “Of Mice and Men” from his poem “To A Mouse”. That’s one poem of his I never heard set to music.

  4. Louis says:

    This was one of my favorite books. Glad to see the daily doubles nailed today. Congrats Ryan on winning and tying with Austin and Seth.