Final Jeopardy: Bodies of Water (1-29-26)

Here are some more clues from the 1/29/2026 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.

SCOTTISH GEOGRAPHY EVERYWHERE ($800) A milestone for this city named for a Scottish county was the 1870s telegraph link to the Port of Albany named for a Scottish dukedom

($1000) This “colorful” Scottish village just north of England was long the goal of couples eloping to seek a hasty marriage

PHRASES FROM SPORTS ($200) Originating in the world of racing at the turn of the 20th century, it means to false-start

FROM THE MAGAZINE.COM ($200) “Seal Spotlight: Avocado eco organic mattress topper”, which are words in an order I’ve never seen before

VICE PRESIDENTS ($800) Naturally, George Dallas was from Philadelphia & served under this President from North Carolina who had a hard Knox life

($1600) He went to Cuba to seek a cure for his tuberculosis in 1853 & was sworn in as Veep there; he would not be long for the job

SELF-HELP THROUGH THE AGES ($1600) Published in 50+ languages since 2006, Rhonda Byrne’s “The Secret” teaches that the key to happiness is the “Law of” this

INVENTORS & INVENTIONS ($2000) Harry Cameron co-invented this, BOP for short; it didn’t work so good for BP off the Louisiana coast in 2010

“E” BEFORE “I” ($800) New Zealand has its own species of this flower that’s “small and white, clean and bright”

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: A BIBLICAL BESTIARY
($200) The eighth of the 10 plagues was a swarm of these creatures called arbeh in Hebrew & these in the King James Bible
($400) The jockey of the pale horse is this last of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse
($600) To see if the flood waters had receded, Noah first sent forth one of these birds
($800) In Exodus God says that he carried the Israelites away from bondage on the wings of one of these
($1000) Uh-oh! After a group of kids mocked the prophet Elisha’s baldness, God sent some of these after them

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