Final Jeopardy: Medical History (1-12-26)
Here are some more clues from the 1/12/2026 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.
LET’S GO OUT TONIGHT ($400) This type of drama is big on Broadway with stars like Sarah Snook & Jean Smart, but do I want to see your pal Dave as Salmon P. Chase?
SOUNDS LIKE HOCKEY? ($800) If you’re a truly sharp dresser, you iron your pants so you could perform surgery using this
The players got all the clues in MOVIE LIFE HACKS:
($400) In Jean-Jacques Beineix’ “Diva”, a crafty cook wears snorkeling gear to avoid tears while chopping these bulbous veggies
($800) Cooking in this Pixar film, Linguini uses the back end of his knife to scrape food from a cutting board, reducing wear on the blade
($1200) In this 2004 movie, Paul Giamatti shows Thomas Haden Church how to swirl wine in the glass to get it to oxygenate and open up
($1600) In this film, George Clooney advises Anna Kendrick on more efficient ways to pack a suitcase & go through airport security
($2000) In this 1999 movie, Annette Bening says she gets her flowers to flourish with eggshells & Miracle-Gro
ANSWERS: show
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($200) Game over! In 2023, he sold control of his team for $3.5 billion, so don’t get on him for the Luka Doncic trade
($400) Trained as an electrical engineer, Judy Marks went to the top floor, becoming CEO of this elevator maker in 2019
($600) He spent 12 years at IBM & a little less time (6 months) at Compaq before taking over as Apple’s CEO in 2011
($800) Joanna Geraghty flies high as CEO of this carrier that calls itself “New York’s hometown airline”
($1000) It was a rough late 2024 to early 2025 for Mexico’s richest person, this telecom king, whose account thinned by about $20 billion
ANSWERS: show
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2/3 on DD and got FJ. Zoned on the 1984 DD. As to Final, I had confirmation bias for scarlet fever, but, then, after discarding that, got it. Then, with it being German scientists, then, it was an after the fact hint!
I was really impressed with all 3 DDs being “all in” (Vicky’s $1k on $800 counts). That final score before final was lights out high!
Outstanding game, to say the least. In hindsight, Final seems almost gettable with the “viral rash” and the German scientist in the clue. I’m sure Dr. Jason knew it. I had all those childhood diseases before there were MMR inoculations. DDs all somewhat knowable but they answered them before I could come up with anything.
True story: my first year at Duke (2003), the guy that had made the connection to rubella not being a harmless exanthem, but an actual danger to pregnant women, talked to us. That was Dr Sam Katz. He was old, then, but just died in 2022, age 95. He also created the attenuated measles vaccine, working with Dr John Endres, who got the Nobel for isolating and growing the polio virus. The measles vaccine is still the one used today. But, the ONLY thing I recall him saying was that “any house staff that didn’t get a flu vaccine shouldn’t be able to work”. Since he sounded like an old man yelling at the clouds, he didn’t have the “word of God” effect he wanted, and none of us got the shot. Kinda trivial, yes.
Wow, talk about this being a very competitive game! Well, Cameron came up with the correct response in Fj, and for for him. As for me, I was stumped on FJ. Yeah, I did contract the German measles back in the early 1960s, but I wasn’t aware that it was also referred to as Rubella.
I was right in Final Jeopardy
This was an amazing game by all three players. Everyone played a perfect game and they were never incorrect for the whole game. That’s something we don’t see often.
Well, they all played very well for sure but, y’know, two of them were incorrect in Final Jeopardy so there’s that. Also, if Ryan had been right in Final, he and Cameron would have been tied, unless my calculator is lying.
That’s funny that they both wagered just enough to cover Vickys all in wager. Usually the person in the lead has to bet big