Final Jeopardy: Authors (7-22-24)

Here are some more clues from the 7/22/2024 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.

STARS WE LOST LAST YEAR ($600) Melinda Dillon graced such films as “Close Encounters”, “Slap Shot” &, as Mother Parker in this 1983 holiday classic

($1000) 2 decades after her early fame, from 1984 to 1986she had 10 Top 40 hits, including “It’s Only Love”, a duet with Bryan Adams

MOUTH TO MOUTH ($400) The white interior of a water moccasin’s mouth gives it this alternate name

THAT’S AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ($000) In 1964 LBJ made this soon-to-be 70-year-old exempt from mandatory retirement under Federal law

SONGS FROM THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK ($2000) It featured “Kiss” by Prince and the Revolution, and it wasn’t “Purple Rain”

3 “O”S ($1200) Seen here in full bloom, it’s the state tree of Virginia, as well as its state flower

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: ALL APOLOGIES
($200) Beg this? Eisenhower generously gave 1,110 of ’em
($400) These, “I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention; you “send” them when turning down an invitation
($600) It’s “The Classic Game of Sweet Revenge”
($800) Oh, I “C”, this adjective means chastened or penitent
($1000) This 2-word Latin phrase is a formal way to acknowledge fault

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