Final Jeopardy: Word Origins (5-6-25)

Here are some more clues from the 5/6/2025 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.

OSCAR HOSTS ($800) 1978: This comic & “Road”-traveling movie star, for his 19th & final time

JUST MOVED IN? ($1000) For internet access, you can set up this device combining a modem & a router, once the name of a computer retailer from cow country

WE’RE THE CARP FAMILY ($1000) The asp is one of the few in our family that eats others in it, so not carnivorous but this word with a changed first syllable

IT’S A FACT ($1600) Ellen Gates Starr was a co-founder of this social settlement, but didn’t get a share of the Nobel Prize Jane Addams won

󠀩($2000) St. Peter’s Basilica was begun in 1506, under the second pope of this name

RHYMING SONG TITLES ($1200) This AC/DC song has lyrics like “Yes, I’m let loose from the noose that’s kept me hangin’ about”

($2000) In this classic from “London Calling”, the Clash sing about someone who most definitely did not “stand by me”

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: METAPHORS BE WITH YOU
($200) If someone has nothing to hide, they’re one of these unfastened tomes
($400) I’m just teasing you a little, this move of tugging an extremity
($600) You’re too late for the opportunity; you’ve done this, failed to catch the Boston Whaler 405 Conquest
($800) To pay too much attention to trivial details could be described as taking this action, dividing follicular growths lengthwise
($1000) A frustrating or difficult task is said to be this, fathering together Bombays or Bengals

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