Final Jeopardy: Award Winners (9-18-25)

Here are some more clues from the 9/18/2025 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.

The players only missed one clue in A BASKET OF CLUES:

($200) The tradition of giving treat-filled Easter baskets is said to have begun as a celebration of the end of this period of denial
($400) The passenger basket beneath a hot-air balloon also goes by this Italian name
($600) The Tipitaka, or “Triple Basket”, is the canon of the Theravada branch of this religion
($800) A prudent piece of advice from an early translation of “Don Quixote”: “‘Tis part of the wise man to… not venture all his” these 4 words
($1000) The many-armed basket stars are in this phylum of backbone-less marine critters

ANSWERS: show

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: GENDERED LANGUAGE?
($400) Able to reach about 1/4 inch in length, the 7-spotted species is one of the largest of these insects
($800) The winner of an election is said to have this authorization from the voters to carry out a campaign platform
($1200) This ancient city was destroyed by the same volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii
($1600) This city just north of Zanzibar is Kenya’s main seaport
($2000) Abolished by Peter the Great, this historic order of nobility in Russia was next in rank below the ruling princes

ANSWERS: show