Final Jeopardy: Characters In Book Series (9-17-24)

Here are some more clues from the 9/17/2024 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.

PHILADELPHIA ($800) Philly is not just the City of Brotherly Love, it’s the city of this guy from Center City & his band’s “Special Sauce”

FIRST LADIES’ FIRST NAMES ($1600) Mrs. John Quincy Adams, our only English-born First Lady had this first name

($2000) The First Lady with this first name died in Canton, Ohio, in 1907

CONVERSATIONAL VOCABULARY ($2000) It means the person with whom you’re speaking; add “Y” to describe a temporary legal decree

SUPER HOT FIRE ($800) The name of this indie band was based on a story Win Butler heard about a conflagration in an amusement hall

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: HISTORIC DECISIONS
($200) Low visibility at the city of Kokura on August 9, 1945 caused a B-29 bomber to change its course & fly to this city
($400) He decided against a new world empire after his brother-in=law Charles Leclerc died of yellow fever in Haiti in 1802
($600) General Lee decided on a charge to take Cemetery Hill on July 3, 1863 during this battle
($800) Before deciding to cross this stream, Julius Caesar apparently saw an apparition with a trumpet
($1000) Around 539 B.C. this ruler permitted the Jewish exiles of Babylon to return to their homeland

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