Final Jeopardy: Famous Women (9-9-24)

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

GOING TO PLANETARY EXTREMES ($600) It not only has an odd axis of rotation, it’s also the coldest planet, with temps approaching -400 Fahrenheit

PARENTING ($600) Is this OK in front of your kids? Ali Wentworth & Heidi Klum have publicly said it is for them & theirs

“MOM” & “DAD” ($800) Cripes! It’s time to scram! To beat it! To do this, originally Civil War-era slang for retreating in haste

FROM THE ITALIAN ($800) Now used to reply “the same”, this 5-letter word once came before a machine that made copies

($2000) When the Pope dies, this cardinal, Treasurer of the Holy See oversees the election of the new Pope

LITERARY BIOGRAPHY ($1200) His greatest work is about a 60-or-so-mile trek to Canterbury, but him: “A European Life” sees him in France, Italy & Spain

($1600) Her affair with a niece of Napoleon III is one of the “Secrets of the Flesh” in a bio of this French author

($2000) “Divine Invasions” is a good title for a bio of this man if not quite up to his own classic titles like “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said”

CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS ($1600) Partly by the effort of the memorably named cardinal sin, Manila Cathedral was elevated to Basilica of this doctrine of Mary’s purity

SONGS FOR THE YOUNG & OLD ($800) At the 1969 Harlem cultural festival, Nina Simone performed the song titled “To Be Young” & these 2 things

($2000) “New Person, the Same Old Mistakes” by this music project, that’s basically just Kevin Parker, was covered by Rihanna

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: ALSO KNOWN AS
($200) The pound sign or octothorpe on your socials
($400) Rapper Shawn Carter
($600) Myanmar
($800) The court security officer
($1000) Conqueror Timor

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