Celebrity Jeopardy 2025 - Game One

Geeky Google

100

When you Google "Isaac Newton", a tree appears on your screen; click it & this fruit falls to the bottom of the screen

an apple

200

When you Google "the one ring", you're asked, "Did you mean: my" this (go ahead, say it like Gollum says it)

precioussss

300

When you Google "Alex Trebek", Google asks, "Did you mean" this (yes, it's in the form of a question)

WHO IS Alex Trebek

400

Do a Google search for this 5-letter word beginning with "A" & you'll see the whole screen tilt

askew

500

When you Google "Chicxulub Crater", this flies across your screen; scientists believe one caused dinosaurs to go extinct

a meteorite (or asteroid; meteor accepted)

Hard New York Times Crossword Clues

100

10-across, 4 letters:
Bit of hardware that fits in a nut

bolt

200

43-across, 6 letters:
"A Hard Day's Night" songwriter

Lennon

300

24-down, 11 letters:
Exclamation popularized by "Die Hard"

Yippie ki yay

400

11-down, 3 letters:
Group that had the first hardcore rap album to reach No. 1 on Billboard

NWA

500

61-across, 4 letters:
Hard-boiled film genre

noir

There's an Animal in My Book Title

100

In a Dr. Seuss book, this animal "in Socks" likes to create tongue twisters for Mr. Knox

Fox

200

The title of this C.S. Lewis classic mentions a feline named Aslan, an evil woman & a piece of furniture

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

300

"Something That Happened" was John Steinbeck's working title for this 1937 novella about farm workers George & Lennie

Of Mice and Men

400

Nature writer Delia Owens branched out into fiction with her bestselling murder mystery "Where" these crustaceans "Sing"

the crawdads

500

This Kurt Vonnegut satire about global destruction shares its title with a game that involves making shapes with a loop of string

Cat's Cradle

Apt Anagrams

100

It's the only other one-word question you get when you rearrange the letters in "how?"

who

200

It's the only other fruit you get when you rearrange the letters in "melon"

lemon

300

It's the only other bird you get when you rearrange the letters in "raptor"

parrot

400

It's the only other presidential action you get when you rearrange the letters in "vote"

veto

500

It's the only other common first name you get when you rearrange the letters in "Dolly"

Lloyd