Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Bigwigs (1-28-26)

Here are some more clues from the 1/28/2026 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.

THE ELEVENTH HOUR ($1000) 11:40 P.M., April 14, 1912: the Titanic hits an iceberg, prompting transmission of this 3-letter pre-S.O.S. distress signal

MOO-VIES ($1000) “I hate cows worse than coppers!” says a cop-fleeing, cow-shooting Baby Face Nelson in this Coen brothers movie

BOOK IT ($1000) “‘Do not insult my intelligence. You know the story of Krazny Oktyabr as well as I'” is said in a 1988 novel written by this man

VEX-OLOGY ($1200) A pointed rod to urge an animal onward; as a verb, it means to prod someone into doing something

HOW LARGE THOU ART ($2000) This artist referred to her many giant sculptures of spiders as her most successful subject

“N” THE CITY ($800) This town perhaps best known for a 1598 law sits at the head of the estuary of the Loire River

TV SHOWS ON TV SHOWS ($1600) It stinks if you can’t recall “Coming Attractions with Jay Sherman” was the show within this show starring Jon Lovitz

($2000) On Season 1 of “30 Rock”, we found out about this sitcom on BET, with Destan Owens as the David Hyde Pierce character

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: GO AHEAD, END WITH A PREPOSITION
($200) The eyes of this fish are usually on the right side of its body
($400) It’s an atom with a positive or negative charge
($600) Police Magazine says calling for this support “can prevent, or at least mitigate, unfortunate surprises”
($800) It’s what pirates do to get their booty as well as another word for the booty itself
($1000) It’s a somewhat archaic way of saying up until a particular time

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