Final Jeopardy: Children’s Books (9-23-25)

Here are some more clues from the 9/23/2025 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.

ANCIENT HISTORY ($1200) Construction on the Great Pyramid at this Mesoamerican city, also a brand of hot sauce, began around 200 B.C. & lasted 1,000 years

($2000) This word can mean “submissive” but is also the name of 3 uprisings that shook Rome; Plutarch called the last the “War of Spartacus”

DISCOVERY ($000) It’s a bird, it’s a dinosaur, it’s this Jurassic fossil discovered in Solnhofen, Germany; many say it proved Darwin right

A SONG ON YOUR LIPS ($1600) Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s & Terry Hall of The Specials co-wrote this song after a clandestine romance

($2000) “She Don’t Use Jelly” was a 1993 hit for this group, perfect for the category

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 9-LETTER WORDS
($400) This word for an exact copy was shortened to become the name of an office machine also called a telecopier
($800) This word for an omen of future events is etymologically related to “harbor”
($1200) Becket & Ionesco are preeminent contributors to what’s known as this style of drama
($1600) What’s that clamor? It’s this noisy word that comes from the Greek for “bad sound”
($2000) The Latin for “to close” gives us this word for a blockage found in dentistry & pathology

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