Final Jeopardy: Brand Names (6-5-25)

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

AMERICAN AUTHORS ($400) This author was sometimes called the Mark Twain of our time

($800) Veronica Roth wrote this first book in her famous dystopian trilogy while on winter break from Northwestern University

($1000) This Pulitzer Prize winner served up “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant” has been called our greatest chronicler of family life

DEEP-SEA DIVING ($800) Some divers live for weeks in pressurized chambers to minimize the need for this process of clearing gas from the body when surfacing

($1000) Comet discoverer Edmond Halley designed an early version of the airtight diving chamber known by this musical name

ONIONS ($1000) Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles recipe for French onion soup calls for this cheese from the French-speaking part of Switzerland

SPIRED UP ($1600) In this city with no love for famous Englishmen, Nelson’s Pillar was destroyed by a bomb & replaced by An Túr Solais, a 400-foot spire

($2000) This Wiltshire Cathedral with the tallest spire in England has a copy of the Magna Carta inside

SMOOTH SINGERS ($1600) Louis Armstrong’s rasp contrasted beautifully with her sweet honey sound on songs like “Cheek To Cheek”

($2000) This woman with a smooth voice had the aptly titled hit “Smooth Operator” as well as “No Ordinary Love”

WOMEN ON STAMPS ($400) Thank you for being a friend–in March 2025 this beloved TV entertainer was honored on a stamp

WEIRD SCIENCE ($1200) The opposite of sublimation, this -tion word means goes directly from a gas to a solid state & is also a legal testimony in writing

($1600) He said, “Nobody understands quantum mechanics” but his 1965 Nobel Physics Prize for quantum electrodynamics says otherwise

FRENCH HISTORY ($1200) General Christian de Castries emerged a hero after the defeat of French forces at this Indochinese site in 1954

($2000) Crowned king of the Franks in 987, he began a direct line of 15 kings that ruled France until 1328

MEET ME IN THE “A.M.” ($2000) Don’t hush & keep it down now! You don’t have ’til Tuesday to remember this woman sang “Voices Carry”

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: RHYMING EXPRESSIONS IN OTHER WORDS
($200) Creatures of the family formicidae within one’s trousers
($400) all-out purchasing of goods on a spree before falling down exhausted
($600) Enormous with total authority
($800) You focused vision concentrated toward a great reward
($1000) A trio of daily meals with a modest bed included

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