Final Jeopardy: Today Spelling Counts (9-11-25)

Here are some more clues from the 9/11/2025 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.

SONGWRITERS ($400) In 1995 singer-songwriter Jill Sobule hit the Hot 100 with this song; Katy Perry co-wrote a 2008 No. 1 song of the same name

($1000) Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, wed for 62 years, wrote this Righteous Brothers hit that hopefully didn’t sum up their relationship

DON’T FORGET TO REMEMBER ($600) If you remember the Alamo, you’ll know this general of the Mexican forces who overran it

($800) This word comes before “mémoire” in a French term for a summary of a meeting so everyone remembers what was said

200 YEARS AGO ($400) The presidential election of 1824 was actually decided by the House in 1825, with this man coming out on top

($1200) Charles X, the last French king of this house, was coronated in Reims on May 29, 1825

($2000) Explorer Alexander Laing set off from Tripoli across the Sahara in 1825 to reach this fabled city; he’d make it, but die soon after

OSCAR-WINNING TITLE REFERENCES ($1600) 1990: A name given to Lieutenant John Dunbar

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: OVERLAPS
($400) A DUI offense! Imbibing a martini while driving hazardously close to someone
($800) A plant representing the Trinity that encompasses the country & blues style of Carl Perkins & his “Blue Suede Shoes”
($1200) The art of making films about the organization depiced in “The Godfather” & “Donnie Brasco”
($1600) Heap praise on the dominant people of Central Mexico from about 900 to 1200 A.D.
($2000) From Italian, describing paint laid thickly on a surface to create a peaceful painting of shepherds

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