Final Jeopardy: Capital Cities (1-23-26)

Here are some more clues from the 1/23/2026 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.

COLORFUL LIT ($800) This title character first appears in an 1892 novel “wonderfully handsome” & “unspotted from the world”

($1600) In this classic by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a woman sees a human form in the title decor, peeling in her room

DEBUT ALBUMS ($1600) With their 1990 debut, Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron, Maxine Jones & Dawn Robinson, aka this group, showed they were born to sing

GOING “PRO” ($2000) This hormone that’s produced by the pituitary gland induces milk production in nursing mothers

NATIONAL ANTHEM LORE ($1600) This Bengali poet did double duty, composing the anthems of both India & Bangladesh

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES
($200) A brief period is being described when these 2 words precede “of a lamb’s tail”
($400) A chef calls a certain number when out of a dish; this is the number called when that item is back on the menu
($600) On CB radio, if you want to know someone’s location, you ask, “What’s your” this number
($800) Surgeons & seamstresses cling to this 18th century proverb that says careful work now will prevent patch-up work later
($1000) This 4-digit number taken from California’s Welfare & Instituions Code now has come to refer to anyone unstable

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