Final Jeopardy: Show Biz Marriages (7-18-24)

Here are some more clues from the 7/18/2024 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.

GEOLOGY ($000) This word is followed by “-ification” when plants transform into a combustible solid with increased carbon content

THE OSCAR & RAZZIE WINNER ($000) His producing “12 Years a Slave” was a triumph; playing Louis in “Interview with the Vampire”, a different type of “win”

SOME HATS, SOME CATTLE ($1600) Want coverage from the sun? Try this hat named for a beach job

($2000) The name of this cattle breed prized for its marble beef literary means “Japanese cow”

POP CULTURE GRAB BAG ($1600)Sam Esmail created this TV drama about a computer programmer by day who’s a hacker in his off hours

($2000) It was fire on ice when D.B. Sweeney and Moira Kelly paired up in this 1992 film, the ultimate love-skate relationship

WORLD HERITAGE SITES ($1200) Come with me to this section of Algiers with palaces & the remains of the old citadel

NUDE, TO THE OED ($400) The OED uses both the r-e & e-r spelling for at for this word text referring to a person appearing nude in a magazine

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: AN ASIAN CAPITAL IDEA
($200) The job of guarding the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in this capital is a high honor
($400) A friendship bridge across the Mekong River connects Nong Khai, Thailand with this capital of Laos
($600) Highlighted here, this city is known as Al-Fayhaa–the fragrant–perhaps for its orchards
($800) Before containing “stan” like its country, this city was known over time as Akmolinsk, Nur-sultan & also Aqmola
($1000) The downtown of the central part of this city on the Mediterranean was destroyed by a civil war that ended in 1990

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