Jeopardy! just kicked off a new season, S42, while I still have a couple of posts in the files mentioning clews from earlier in the year.
The most interesting use was that in their sideshow, Jeopardy Masters.
S3E2, aired on 5.17.2025. Split into two showdowns, Knockout Game 3 and Knockout Game 4.
In Game 4, regular play, the category A Nora. The $600 clew:
Nora Charles does some sleuthing with her husband Nick in this Dashiell Hammett novel that inspired a series of films
Man, could they have made it ANY easier?
Of course the contestant asked, “What is The Thin Man?”
But here’s the interesting part. In the Double Jeopardy round, under the category I’m the Literary Lion another Hammett appears, to my knowledge the first double-tap Jeopardy! has handed Hammett (they did do an entire category on him previously).
The $800 clew:
Meyer Landsman. whom a review calls a “circumcised Sam Spade,” appears in the author’s “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union”
Not quite as easy. The nod to Spade is just a nod to Spade, doesn’t help dope it out. But a guy got it:
“Who is Chabon?”
Ken Jennings confirmed: “Michael Chabon is right.”
