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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