Final Jeopardy: Mythology (9-5-24)

Here are some more clues from the 4/8/2024 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.

PARENTING ($800) A tough question for parents; Dr. Ellen Libby wrote a book on the issue & says it can rotate from kid to kid, if that’s any help

SLANGUAGE ($000) An update of “taking care of” this is “standing on” this, which Drake helped popularize

($800) This 4-letter slang word for excellent actually goes back to the 1960s; some say its first letter stands for “pretty”

IT PLEASED THE LORD ($1200) As the year 2001 neared, Lord Falconer was happy when Tony Blair put him in charge of the huge structure then called this

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: “A” TO “A” COUNTRIES
($200) The official language of this small country is Catalan
($400) 1st millennial monk Mesrop Mashtots is credited with creating this nation’s alphabet, seen here
($600) In 1967 this Balkan nation was declared the world’s first atheist state
($800) Not soccer, but pato, a combination of polo & basketball was declared the national sport there in 1953
($1000) The desert-dwelling fennec fox is its national animal

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