Final Jeopardy: Movie Music (7-17-26)

Here are some more clues from the 7/17/2026 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.

SUPERSTITIONS ($600) This gesture to bring good luck or to ward off bad may be tied to a pagan belief that trees were inhabited by spirits & gods

LINGO OF THE ATTENTION ECONOMY ($600) In finance, it means to liquidate an asset for cash; for a creator in the attention economy, it means to earn revenue from content

WORLD CITIES ($800) In October 2023 Hurricane Otis hit this Pacific resort area, the largest city in Mexico’s Guerrero state

ASTRONOMY ($800) The constellation Taurus includes both the Hyades & this star cluster, M45

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 2020s HIT SONGS
($200) At 10 minutes, 13 seconds, this Taylor Swift song became the longest No. 1 single ever on Billboard’s Hot 100
($400) His 2022 song “As It Was” went in one direction: straight to the top of the charts
($600) In 2025 people flipped for “Mystical Magical” by this singer who would be happy to return the favor
($800) Noah Kahan says it’s about the time in New England each year when all the leaves are off the trees
($1000) “Told you I’d change, even when I knew I never could” is from this 4-letter Justin Bieber collab with The Kid Laroi

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