Final Jeopardy: Historic Groups (8-30-24)

Here are some more clues from the 4/2/2024 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.

FICTION ($800) Her historical fiction includes “Burning Bright”, “The Lady & the Unicorn” & of course, “Girl with a Pearl Earring”

($1000) The title of this 2023 bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a theater company, not a body of water

SONG SIMILES ($200) “She’s hot as hell” in her 2009 song “Monster”

($800) “In the droptop ride with you, I feel like Scarface”, says SZA on this tune, winner of a Grammy in 2024 for Best R&B Song

MOUNTAIN HIGH, VALLEY LOW ($400) The Kamchatka Peninsula is home to an area called the Valley of these

AN INVITATION TO THE DANCE ($2000) Fayard & Harold were the first names of these brothers, whose amazing moves lit up the screen in films like “Stormy Weather”

3 TOUGH LITTLE LETTERS ($1600) A cog is a fixed part of a gear or wheel; this linking part rotates or slides

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: “J-I-T” WORDS
($200) Its magnetic field is 20 times stronger than Earth’s
($400) The Rio Grande valley is the birthplace of this dish of meat, onions & peppers sizzled & tortilla-ed
($600) From the Latin for “close by”, it’s the placing of different elements side-by-side
($800) Once the site of a state prison, this city near Chicago has an economy today based on tourism & casinos
($1000) One of 3 core design languages, this programming mainstay is often used to add interactive features to webpages

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