Here are 10 clues from the 4-9-2019 Jeopardy! match.

A SHORT STORY CATEGORY

($400) Surprisingly, a Richard Russo tale about a dismal road trip is titled this happy “Ride”
($800) Alice Munro set many stories like “Royal Beatings” in small towns in this country
($1200) “A Boring Story” is by this Russian playwright/story master
($1600) Completes the title of Susan Glaspells’s 1917 tale with a feminist angle, “A Jury of…”
($2000) J.D. Salinger paired “Franny” with a story about him

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The players got all the clues in CAT IDIOMS, except the last one:

($400) It’s from the Latin for “careful”, but it’s what “killed the cat” who wasn’t careful enough
($800) To appear bedraggled is to look like something that arrived this way
($1200) If a secret has been exposed, it’s where “the cat” is
($1600) A fleeting rise in a stock’s price after a fall is this type of “bounce”
*($2000) Act assertively! “A cat in gloves” has this inability

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