Final Jeopardy: European History (1-27-26)
Here are some more clues from the 1/27/2026 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.
IT HAPPENED IN 2025 ($600) The FDA revoked the green light for this food coloring in January due to cancer concerns
ORGANIZATIONS ($2000) (image) Here’s the Director General of this international agency as it signed a new agreement with Iran in 2025
The players got all the clues in WOMEN IN SONG:
($400) In a No. 1 hit, Drake asked her, “Do you love me? Are you riding?
($800) In “Sorry” Beyonce sings “he only want me when I’m not there, he better call” this woman
($1200) In a hit from 2005, she was asked, “What’s it like in New York City, I’m a thousand miles away, but girl, tonight, you look so pretty”
($1600) The Goo Goo Dolls song named for this lass says, “You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be”
($2000) Fountains of Wayne had their only mainstream hit with this anthem about a lady who’s “got it going on”
SONG ANSWERS: show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: YOU’RE MY SODA POP
($200) It was introduced in 1961 to rival 7Up
($400) This brand better known for its grap juice also makes sparkling grape & sparkling strawberry sodas
($600) Ya-hooo! For this soda, whose name is slang for moonshine & was created as a mixer for cocktails
($800) Calling itself “the original energy drink”, this 4-letter cola is back, & with 200 mgs of caffeine, it lives up to its name
($1000) Originally from Mexico, the name of this apple-flavored soda translates to “little apple sun”
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Two very worthy challengers, capable of winning this ToC, but no match for Scott and his DDs.
I did poorly in round 1 but nailed the easy DD. Did better in the 2nd, got the Rousseau DD. Very surprised no one knew hhmunro’s pseudonym–that’s the poet who wrote in only lower case, no? I said Marie Antoinette for Final even though I knew that was way too obvious.
I was 2/3 on DD and missed FJ. Like the players, I said Marie Antoinette, but, after that was wrong, I did come up with Charlotte Corday. I recall the picture I saw of the casting that Mme Tussaud herself made of Marat. Either bummer, or way cool, to be stabbed in the bathtub!
I truly doubt that the French would have dared to execute Marie Antoinette if her father was alive. He was the Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I. Or, if her mother was alive for that matter– she was the ruler of the Hapsburg dynasty.
Unlucky matchup for Tom. His score could be good enough to run away with it on other days not vice versa.
Another triple stumper this week since today’s final was also tough.
That’s why the year makes it more difficult, especially in European history.
It looked like this was going to be a battle between Scott and Tom until Scott blew the game wide open by finding back to back daily doubles and getting them both correct and putting the game away. Scott also set the record for the highest score going into Final this season which is 41,200.
That shows you why Scott Riccardi is the Heavy Favorite in this tournament.