Final Jeopardy: Novels (9-17-25)

Here are some more clues from the 9/17/2025 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.

I WROTE THAT FOR CHILDREN! ($400) “‘Get that moose!’ Thidwick heard a voice call… ‘shoot straight, one and all! We must get his head for the Harvard club wall!'”

EARLY ROLES ($400) N.Y. raised Zoe Saldaña’s first IMDb credit was a 1999 role on this TV drama; it came back in 2022, if Zoe wants to go on again

($1000) Her “Long Bright River” of movie & TV roles included Lucy Montgomery on “As the World Turns” when she was 15

HAWAI’I AS IT WAS ($600) Jason Momoa: “Kaʻiana & his family are from the island of Maui, but when we meet them are living on this northwestern island, around the time Captain Cook landed at Waimea Bay

OUR CRUSTY EARTH ($1200) This country’s Kola Superdeep Borehole is the deepest hole ever dug; under the rusty cap seen here, it extends 7.6 miles into Earth’s crust

PROFESSORS ($1200) In between butterfly hunting, this novelist taught English at Cornell & Thomas Pynchon was one of his pupas

BANDS BIGGER IN BRITAIN ($1200) 2024 saw Oasis announcing a reunion while Damon Albarn said this rival band could be done with live shows

($1600) This band’s “Common People” opens with Jarvis Cocker singing “She came from Greece / She had a thirst for knowledge”

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: TRIPLES
($200) In the ’90s, this cocktail of vodka, triple sec & cranberry juice arguably should have been renamed Triple Sec & the City
($400) Johann Strauss II is known as the “King” of this dance that’s usually in simple triple time, aka 3/4
($600) A tongue stuck to a flagpole is the grievous upshot of a triple-dog dare in this classic holiday film
($800) Renewed periodically between 1882 & WWI, the triple alliance was a hush-hush pact between Austria-Hungary & these 2 countries
($1000) Established as 3 Phoenician colonies in the 7th century B.C., the historical North African region of Tripolitania is now part of this country

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