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”
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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
ANSWERS: show
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I was 3/3 on DD but missed FJ. Banks is the “Beer of Barbados”, but I always got a chuckle out of it when a guy told me, “If you’re on a raft, and you miss Barbados, your next stop is Africa!”
Final, on the other hand …. Neither my spouse nor I got it. We both said “Martin Luther”.
An interesting sidelight about Kelly Wearstler, the designer. As “Kelly Gallagher” she was a Playboy Playmate! I wonder if that money was the seed for her design business.
Good game with an unexpected finish. Smart wager by Andrew. Alison was out of contention after the first 2 clues. I noticed she’s now “originally” from San Jose. Not sure she used that status in past appearances. I honestly don’t know why game shows allow that “originally from” anyway, unless a contestant wants to try to avoid stalking by not stating their current city. I do know that Alison doesn’t use her surname on FB. I’m guessing she earned more for a semi loss than in the quarters.
Matt was true to ungrammatical form with his “Who James I?” answer.
Final too tough for me, as was the first DD. 2nd DD one of my favorite films. I blew the 3rd by saying Carrera instead of Carrara. Decades ago we bought some 2nd-hand coffee tables with very heavy, removable marble tops. I wonder if they’re valuable. Only stumper I knew was the young British person sent home.
What a game, and it subsequently evolved into a two way match between Matt and Andrew (while leaving Alison far behind). Well, I couldn’t think of anything else for FJ so I went with Edward the Confessor. Yes, it was a bad guess, but it was better than no guess at all.
Roger and Andrew are now a 2 time JIT finalist. It’s guaranteed that Andrew will be in Season 4 of Jeopardy Masters and Andrew’s bet of 38 is the Season 38 reunion with Matt and Andrew. They both appeared in Season 38 of Jeopardy!