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”

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

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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