Final Jeopardy: Numerical Book Titles (5-8-23)

Here are some more clues from the 5/8/2023 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.

POP MUSIC-PODGE ($1000) Unafraid of long album titles like “When the Pawn…” (it does go on), she shortened things up in 2020 with “Fetch the Bolt Cutters”

GONE FISHIN’ ($800) In 1997 this U.S. state designated the Bonneville cutthroat trout as its official state fish

CHILDREN’S LIT (($800) In a story by Johnny Guelle, this doll says, “I can’t seem to think clearly today.. it feels as if my head were ripped” (it was)

“B” COOL ($1600) In 1958 the San Francisco Examiner worried that “growing lads” might become these “instead of ball players”

FUTILITY ($2000) Harry Potter might have a better chance of turning metal to gold using this medieval substance from alchemy, also called the tincture

AMERICAN WOMAN ($2000) A self-titled 1961 L.P. of arias sung by this great “L.P.” is known to opera lovers as the “Blue Album”

WHAT KINDA TV PLACE YOU LIVE IN? ($1600) Jim Rockford; he kept it in Malibu

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

Sneak Peek clues — SCANDAL!:
($200) Receiving these gems from Central African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa helped end the presidency of France’s Valery Giscard d’Estaing
($400) A conservative MP & commentator on this network, Bob Boothby endured the revelations of his association with Ronnie Kray
($600) You & I pay fees for this, withdrawing money we don’t have; in a ’90s scandal 300 Congressmen did it with the house bank no problem
($800) This Italian P.M. said there was no scandal in 2009 after photos surfaced of scantily clad women at his villa
($1000) As Attorney General under U.S. Grant, Edwards Pierrepont spent lots of time prosecuting this “Ring” of distillers who bribed & frauded

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show