Final Jeopardy: Writers (2-17-26)
Here are some more clues from the 2/17/2026 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.
ALL SORTS OF ENTERTAINMENT ($400) In the 1930s Warner Bros. featured animated shorts titled “Looney Tunes” & this alliterative companion one
($600) Jason Bateman came up with the name of this podcast he hosts with Will Arnett & Sean Hayes to reflect the 3 know nothing
POEM ADD A LETTER ($1000) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, perhaps entertaining the idea of a menage a quatre, once asked this lusty question ANSWER: show
CELEBRITY COLLECTIVES ($400) It’s a singer or actress’ group of friends, best forever or not; Joy Behar says, “We used to call it a clique in my day”
($2000) The Staten Island buddies known as the Tenderloins created this TV show of dares & humiliations
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: BRITSPEAK
($200) In a video teaching British slang, Idris Elba explains chirpsing means hitting on & is related to this word for a woman
($800) If you say you can’t go to the pub because you’re skint, that’s this reason
($1200) Don’t worry, mate, it’s all this– more than just arranged in categories, it means fixed, settled, taken care of
($1600) It means a wild party & precedes “Mother Brown” in a song that some say has sexual meanings (but Raffi sang it)
($2000) If it’s time to go to sleep, you’re headed for this ceremonial county, home to Clapham; think of the first 3 letters in its name
ANSWERS: show
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I spent a good part of the show trying to remember where I saw Long before, other than Jeopardy. Finally, at the end, I did some online detective work and figured it out. There was a fairly decent two-month game show in summer of ’24 called “Lucky 13,” hosted and exec produced by Gina Rodriguez. He was on one night and decided to shoot for the million $, which he didn’t have to do. He lost. So his excessive wagers tonight didn’t shock me in retrospect, even though at the time I thought he was overdoing it.
Had a lot of trouble tonight, although I warmed up near the end. Got only the middle DD. And “Equator” for the line of latitude at 23.5 degrees North? Ouch, that hurt. For Final, I deduced immediately it was Bridge of San Luis Rey, which we read in 8th grade, but could not for the life of me remember the author. If the clue had been “Our Town” I’d have nailed it. I think we read that too.
Knew the S African playwright (but not for the work in the clue) and of course the Looney Tunes clue. Those were my main source of entertainment as a kid, when I wasn’t reading the encyclopedia and the NY Times. 🙂 Was sure I knew the celebrity group of friends, but it was a different word.
Pretty impressive two games from Long who was probably a long shot before the tournament started. He will give Roger and that hippie Andrew a run. But my pick is OG Roger
Peru is in America, South America. The life and manners are referred to as of America not of the United States of America. America as a continent extends from Canada to the tip of South America. I don’t think they set anything aside. They just didn’t consider the scope of the word America.
Hi Judy, You can read what they did on the Pulitzer.org page I linked to. Maybe I didn’t paraphrase what happened that well, but they say right on there that they changed the language.That was my source.
Not disagreeing. Looking at the larger picture.