Final Jeopardy: Animals (8-31-21)

Here are some more clues from the 8/31/2021 Jeopardy! game:

PLAYING TODAY’S HITS ($200) In 2020 Drake & Lil Durk decided to do this “Now Cry Later”

SOCIOLOGY ($600) Marx identified 4 types of this, a term now used for a sensation of isolation & estrangement from the rest of society

($800) From the Latin for “turning aside”, it’s departing from usual or accepted societal norms

HOMONYM-BLENESS ($200) To communicate directly regarding a situation, or 1201 S. Main Street

($800) A liqueur, or polite & genial

STAND-UP COMEDIANS ($1600) Seen here (image) is this comedian, not the robot version of her that joined her on a 2019 Netflix special

($2000) The 2020 documentary “The Comedy Store” has interviews with Letterman, Damon Wayans & of course him, the son of the club’s owner

The players only got the $800 clue in 4 OF THE SAME LETTER:

($400) It’s someone who reveals secrets or informs on others
($800) Why, you little one of these! a young cheeky & presumptuous person
($1200) From old words for “one & all”, today it means disreputable or undesirable people
($1600) Adjective meaning lacking all moral principles
($2000) Collective name for strategic measures taken by a nation to discourage hostile action by another

ANSWERS: show

Sneak Peek clues — WELL VERSED IN POETRY
($400) “Antique” title of a poem about a warship that mentions “her deck, once red with heroes’ blood”
($800) “The Waste Land” begins with the declaration that this “is the cruellest month”
($1200) This poem begins, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”
($1600) A poem by Wordsworth begins “I wandered lonely as” this “that floats on high o’er vales and hills”
($2000) This Kipling poem ends: “You’ll be a man, my son!”

ANSWERS: show