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