Final Jeopardy: First Names In Science (9-21-23)

Here are some more clues from the 9/20/2023 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.

CHINESE FOOD ($600) Sometimes called fensi, this thin pasta is made from mung beans & becomes transparent when soaked in water & cooked

JOHNNY GILBERT GOES COUNTRY (Name the singer) ($1200) The red headed stranger had eyes like thunder, his lips they were sad & tight”

($1600) “Just two good ol’ boys, never meanin’ no harm, beats all you never saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born”

TAKING A STAR TURN ($800) Also called Alpha Ursae Minoris & our Northern Polestar, this celestial object is in fact a triple star system

($1600) The 5th-brightest star at night, it’s also the name of a ’70s Chevy that, per MotorTrend, was “a rust-bucket prone to gas tank fires”

A TRIP TO MUMBAI ($1200) Seen here the Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway from 1888 is an example of this kind of Gothic Revival architecture named for a queen

($2000) Explore Malabar Hill & visit the temple seen here; it’s devoted to a Tirthankar of this religion

PAST HISTORY ($1600) “Up until this time” is the meaning of this old-timey 8-letter word

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Sneak Peek clues — FROM “S” TO “Y”
($200) It can mean a sacred place or any place of refuge
($400) At the end of an episode of “Drag Race”, RuPaul tells one contestant, “Shantay, you stay” & the other, do this “away”
($600) This word for correspondence in shape comes from the Greek for “of like measure”
($800) In an 1811 novel Marianne Dashwood personifies this title word because she’s full of emotion
($1000) Stonehenge is about 8 miles from this city that lies on the River Avon

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS: show