Final Jeopardy: The Southern Hemisphere (2-12-26)
Here are some more clues from the 2/12/2026 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 INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS ($600) This TV show won Best Ensemble Cast in 2024; it’s sole non-actor, Ronald Gladden, realized he was still eligible for it in real life
ANTONYMS ($600) Of trivial: this word that’s also a military rank & an elite tennis tournament
INTERNATIONAL OBSERVANCES ($1600) June 18 is Sustainable this art of preparing & enjoying fine food day
($2000) September 7 is Awareness Day for the Duchenne type of this genetic disorder
MANY-LETTERED WORDS ($1200) Confinement to a facility providing a certain type of long-term care; it doesn’t have the nicest ring to it
($2000) 20 letters: one seeking to overthrow a government that was established by overthrowing a previous government
REMAINS TO BE SEEN ($2000) Possibly hanged as a sacrifice, the body of this over-2,000-year-old man was discovered in a peat bog in Denmark in 1950
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: IN BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY
($200) “The risk of conviction and punishment that a criminal defendant faces at trial”
($400) “The official act by which an attorney is deprived of the privilege of practicing law”
($600) “Dishonesty of belief, purpose, or motive… also termed mala fides”
($800) “Latin: ‘The thing speaks for itself'”
($1000) “An interest in land owned by another person, consisting in the right to use… the land… for a specific limited purpose”
ANSWERS: show
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What a game! Well, I never heard of the ‘Tierra Del Fuego” until now. Anyways, I will certainly keep that archipelago in mind.
Semifinal Lineups:
Fri 2/13 Roger Craig, Jen Giles, Drew Basile
Mon 2/16 Matt Amodio, Andrew He, Alison Betts
Tue 2/17 Long Nguyen, Karen Farrell, Drew Goins
It occurs to me that doubling up and succeeding on a DD could knock the top players out of the running. Also, it sure would be funny if Matt Amodio and Andrew He cancelled each other out in Alison’s game.
I was 3/3 on DD but missed FJ. At the very moment I came to this page, I realized my bonehead error. I said the Leeward Islands, in the Caribbean. Then, just now, I actually register “The SOUTHERN Hemisphere”. But, Will thought the same thing (more or less).
Good on Long for his win. However, as stated, I think his chances of winning it all are in the minority.
All performed decently, although Adriana wasn’t heard from that much. I don’t believe she’s ever said where she works but it has to be Purdue U. Long was the best player even though he didn’t go large on the DDs. (The last one he bet $1600 not $1700) I surprised myself getting the last 2 DDs. Adriana answered the first before I could think of it. Final makes sense once you think of the smoke reference.
I didn’t get it.
When they intro’d the finalists, Roger said he’s from Pennsylvania. Can’t recall where he was from during his earlier shows (California?) thinking it wasn’t PA. Maybe he moved after marrying Julia Collins. And Alison said San Jose, which tells me maybe she relocated? She worked in the film biz and I thought she lived in the LA area. She did post on FB right after her first run that she’d just been laid off from her job as a script editor and was seeking new employment.
The military rank/tennis tournament was remarkably easy. Knew the Duchenne disorder from an annual event that aired nationwide each summer.
I remember now how no one got that FJ from 2 years ago. I knew its height, and the “legs” part of the clue confirmed it at the time.
So I was wrong about Adriana. She got trounced. 🤣 but I was right that this game would be a runaway.
I still want Roger to win but I suppose Matt Amodio will mop the floor with everyone.
Wild that drew advanced
Drew Basile. Because there are two of them.
Semifinalists:
Long Nguyen: $21,600
Matt Amodio: $18,800
Roger Craig: $15,000
Andrew He: $10,801
Alison Betts: $2,786
Drew Goins: $1,600
Wild Cards:
Karen Farrell: $16,400
Jennifer Giles: $8,400
Drew Basile: $7,200
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Adriana Harmeyer: $6,800
Mehal Shah: $6,001
Liz Feltner: $1,599
Tom Cubbage: $1
Josh Hill: $0 ($7,600 $3,400)
Isaac Hirsch: $0 ($7,600 $3,200)
Will Yancey: $0 ($7,400)
Veronica Vichit-Vadakan: $0 ($7,200)
Eric Ahasic: $0 ($5,600)
Will would have advanced to the semifinals as a wild card with his pre-Final score, but he went all in and was eliminated. Had he stood pat, he would have made it to the semifinals as a wild card. Adriana was correct but didn’t have enough higher score to advance. Instead it’s Jen and Basile who earned the last two wild card spots.
Will didn’t know that, because he was in the Green Room all day. It wasn’t Adriana’s day on the buzzer, but she did give more than 500 correct responses, and she has an overall total winnings of $446,600. Not enough to beat Paolo Pasco’s $448,717, but it is enough to beat Buzzy Cohen by less than $5,000.