Final Jeopardy: Scientific Words (1-20-26)
Here are some more clues from the 1/20/2026 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.
A CULT BAND ($200) This Canadian trio was once known as the biggest cult band in the world
($800) This band of bassist Les Claypool is going strong 40 years after its founding & 30+ after “Sailing The Sound Of Cheese”
($1000) Glasgow brothers Jim & William Reid formed this band with a vaguely biblical name
NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WORLD ($800) A popular trekking destination, Simien Mountains National Park contains this country’s highest peak, Ras Dejen
($1000) After visiting Banff, head north to this adjoining national park to see its incredible glaciers & wildlife
THE TALE THAT WAGS THE DOG ($1000) You’re on target if you know this tough mutt owned by Bill Sikes in a Dickens tale had a “face scratched & torn in 20 different places”
RANKS & TITLES ($800) This honorific for Muslim clerics like 9/11-era Taliban leader Omar is roughly equivalent to “Lord”
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE ($800) The Queen is dead! Long live the King! And let’s build homes in the style of this era that followed the Elizabethan this
POP-UP-POURRI ($1200) Later an off-and-on Yankees manager, he saved the 1952 World Series for the team with a lunging catch of a bases loaded pop-up
($2000) As in the 1951 LeSabre, hidden or pop-up headlights were a passion of this legendary GM car designer
BACK WORDS ($200) No licking! “original” this sticky stuff on the back of a stamp can greatly enhance the stamp’s value to a collector (Note: just the 3-letter word was needed)
($2000) The name of this fin at the very rear of a fish, aka the tail fin, is also an adjective meaning “near the posterior”
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: RHYME TIME
($200) an additional matriarch
($400) An ersatz gateau
($600) The steeple chorale
($800) Nuptial coverlets
($1000) Payroll tax for your work reading the Book of the minor prophet that follows Jonah
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Rough start to this game, especially for the guys, including me. I was stumped repeatedly out of the gate. And all that video game stuff was like trying to read Navajo. First DD was easy; 2nd I just couldn’t recall it; third one was a cinch if you know where Timbuktu is. For Final, I said penicillin right away, fairly sure it came from chickens or eggs (which came first?).
Utterly shocked no one knew the iconic, 3-person Canadian band. Not one of my faves, but c’mon. “On target” is what gave me Sikes’ dog, not the fact that I saw the show on Broadway in 1964 (with foture Monkee Davy Jones as the Artful Dodger!) The Yankees’ WS hero was gravy for me.
Too bad for the guys it was a lock game, as they both scored on Final. Believe me, it sucks.
Ugh, 1/3 on DD and missed FJ with no answer!
And, one easy DD, “Angel Falls”, and I missed the one 4-letter always go-to in Africa! Mali!!
Ouch that must have stung, missing Final. Note to self: do not ask Jason for an antibiotic Rx. 🙂
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There were a lot of tough clues in today’s game, but in any case, it was a clear runaway for Allegra.. Anyways, we were all stung in FJ because the local channel had blocked half of the question with a ‘Winter Weather Advisory’. What a bummer!
Wow! Mucho stumpers in this game. I got 6 of them. I wasn’t at all sure I was right on the postage stamp stuff, but I said the answer out loud so I’m counting it. Those 3 never saw the Oscar-winning musical Oliver! The dog’s name was in the book too, but you’d be more likely to remember it if you saw the musical.
Andrew had negative $1,000 at the end of the Jeopardy Round.