Final Jeopardy: Men of Religion (2-16-26)

Here are some more clues from the 2/16/2026 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.

REMEMBER JANUARY 2026? ($800) First & last name of the Potomac, Maryland resident who was in the news as a key figure in a speculated new Iranian regime

WATCHING MOVIES IN MOVIES ($400) A character gets bigtime meta in this horror franchise “III: Season of the Witch”, watching an ad for the original on a bar TV

GOING BACK TO HIGH SCHOOL ($800) U.S. History: founded in 1886 with 138,000 members, this trade unionist group had nearly 3 million by 1924

STATE CAPITAL ENTERTAINMENT? ($800) Marisa Tomei is in a trying relationship with an attorney who has an unusual office in this 2011 film

($1200) Stardom was around the corner after Justin Bieber shared this singer’s cover of “At Last”

TAKE YOUR MARBLE ($800) Change the prefix in a simple, stark-ism to get this lavish style of designer Kelly Wearstler, featuring Calacatta marble

($1200) The charioteer seen here (image) is carved in Proconnesian marble from the area of this Turkish sea whose name means marble

& GO HOME ($400) In black culture this event is often called a homegoing & TLC featured some elaborate ones on a show called “Best” this “Ever”

($1200) If a young British person unexpectedly returns home because they’ve been “sent down”, they’ve been this

($2000) A film subject, the return of this peasant-this peasant– or someone claiming his name– to his French village in the 1550s began a legal “war”

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 6-SYLLABLE WORDS
($400) Alex Wallace & Alex Wilson are 2 of these on-camera professionals for The Weather Channel
($800) It’s a 150th anniversary; Colorado is celebrating its in 2026
($1200) It’s the full name of the lifesaving treatment that utilizes an artificial kidney machine to cleanse the blood
($1600) Poe wrote about this “that so musically wells from the bells, bells, bells, bells”
($2000) Thomas Huxley coined this word for the idea that the first forms of life evolved from non-living matter

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