Final Jeopardy: U.S. States (1-26-26)
Here are some more clues from the 1/26/2026 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.
TRADE IN HISTORY ($200) In the 18th century, it was America’s biggest port, trading for linen & tea; later it traded for Steve Carlton & Roy Halladay
($400) Maybe the fragrance lingers along what’s called this route, which took goods like myrrh from Arabia to the Mediterranean
BUS-PODGE ($1000) This polymath with his own type of triangle pioneered fixed-foute carriage service in 17th c. Paris, a precursor of today’s city bus
CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE ($600) This main character confronting mediocrity in Ayn Rand’s “The Fountainhead” was based in part on Frank Lloyd Wright
($800) In this Charles Jackson novel, writer Don Birnam attempts to pawn his typewriter in order to purchase alcohol
($2000) Admired by Herman Melville, 1823’s “The Pilot” by this 3-named author launched a whole genre of maritime fiction
15-LETTER WORDS ($800) Partly from Greek for “form”, this adjective describes art made to look human, or human attributes on deities
CHOICES ($800) Other girls of the Plymouth Colony must have envied Priscilla Mullins, getting to choose between John Alden & this shy suitor
($2000) In 1958, most of French Africa said yes to joining the French community; Sékou Touré and and this country said, “No, independence, s’il vous plait”
LEGAL THIS & THAT ($1600) The EJI, this group founded by lawyer Bryan Stevenson, helps those illegally convicted or unfairly sentenced
RED ACTED ($1200) This show’s 1980 finale was a showdown between McGarrett & malevolent Chinese agent Wo Fat, played by Khigh Dhiegh
($1600) In this 2024 HBO miniseries, Hoa Xuande is the captain, a communist who has infiltrated South Vietnam
($2000) Michael Palin play Molotov in the hilarious (really!) movie about the 1953 panic following this event, the film’s title
The players missed 3 clues in HERE’S THE MATH YOU ASKED FOR:
($400) A perfect number is equal to the sum of its proper divisors; for example 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + these 2 integers
($800) i is used to represent the square root of -1, this type of “unreal” but handy-as-a-concept number
($1200) (4/3)pi r3 is the volume of one of these
($1600) This property of addition says (a + b) + c = a + (b + c)
($2000) The constant e is known as the number of this Swiss genius whose name started with E but is pronounced with an “OI”
MATH ANSWERS: show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: WOMEN’S SPORTS
($200) After 5 losses in the finals dating to 1997, this franchise bought a WNBA championship to New York in 2024
($400) American tennis star Cori Gauff is better known by this sweet nickname
($600) Florence Griffith Joyner’s record of 10.49 secs. in this event was set in 1988, 4 years before the current No. 2 mark holder’s birth
($800) MMA fighter Weili Zhang used a rear naked choke to recapture this organization’s Strawweight Belt in 2022
($1000) Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina is tied for most Women’s Olympic Golds with this American who may try for more in 2028
ANSWERS: show
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To call that an uneven game would be a gross understatement. Once again, a celebrity was an embarrassment and theoretically took the place of a more deserving contestant. And a surfeit of wrong answers and stumpers.
I said KY for Final. That was a toughie. Guessed the 3rd DD, needed more time for the first, 2nd was too tough. They left way, way too may answerable clues out there. The biggest port; Parisian polymath; “Fountainhead” character; Priscilla’s suitor; EJI; McGarrett’s show; perfect # factors; and the 4/3 piRcubed solid. $6800 right there. But I thought I knew the African country and the math property and was wrong on both.
Yes, I think this QF had the highest number of stumpers. I winced when TJ guessed Robert Louis Stevenson for the 1823 work by a 3- named author. RLS had nothing to do with the first half of the 19th century. He was born in1850, and died when he was only 44. People are still making beaucoup bucks adapting his famous works.
The $800 clue in Women’s Sports was a stumper that I was sure someone wouild get.
Oh, yeah. I see I forgot to mark that clue and the $1000 clue with the asterisk, or more likely thought I did it.
Anyway, they were both stumpers.
Unfortunately for Lisa Ann, she never got any momentum going and she became the first Celebrity Jeopardy! contestant to not participate in Final Jeopardy! outside of Celebrity Jeopardy! events. She was really rusty after 2 years and only the 2 civilians got to play Final Jeopardy! This will not be the last time seeing Lisa Ann because we will see her again in the Celebrity Jeopardy All Stars in a month from now in primetime on ABC.
I believe this is the first time a celebrity won’t be around for Final Jeopardy!.