Final Jeopardy: The Movies (9-18-24)

Here are some more clues from the 9/18/2024 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.

VANCOUVER, B.C. ($600) George Vancouver was immortalized after exploring the area in this ship, also the name of the longest-service space shuttle

RAIN CHECK ($600) One of the world’s wettest places, Mount Waialeale on this “Garden Isle” of Hawaii averages some 450 inches of rain per year

($800) On Venus this corrosive stuff, H2SO4, would burn right through your umbrella, but it evaporates before it hits the ground

($1000) In summer 2022 this type of heavy, seasonal rain poured into casinos & flooded streets in Las Vegas

SAY IT “AINT” SO ($800) aka corposant, it’s a visible electrical discharge on a ship’s mast or a plane’s wing during a storm

THE HISTORICAL HOOSEGOW ($400) A stone tablet at the Mamertine Prison in Rome says Saint Paul & this other apostle were imprisoned there

($1600) The political prisoner known by this name was sent to many prisons, but died at the Bastille on November 19, 1703

($2000) In 1969, Henri Charrière published his experience in a penal colony in French Guiana as this work

CONSTELLATIONS ($800) The constellation Chamaeleon is fittingly found next to the constellation Musca, Latin for this

($1600) A group of 5 bright stars making a “W” helps you recognize this constellation bearing the name of an Ethiopian queen

($2000) The Greeks saw Ophiuchus as this god of medicine & he was thought to hold a serpent in his hands

PRESIDENTIAL LAST NAMES ($1200) Of the British singer & songwriter seen here (image)

($1600) Of Rita, who says she deserved a songwriting credit on “Layla”

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: COMPLETES THE SONG TITLES
($200) “Rainy Night in ___” & “Midnight Train to ___”
($400) “Used To Be ___” & “Live While We’re ___”
($600) “Bad ___”, “Jealous ___” & “Ordinary Average ___”
($800) “I Gotta ___” & “Hooked on a ____”
($1000) “Jungle ___” & “Boot Scootin’ ___”

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