Final Jeopardy: American Authors (2-18-26)

Here are some more clues from the 2/18/2026 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.

WELL, THAT’S PATHETIC ($800) Deserving commiseration like Warren Zevon’s “Poor Poor…Me” this

FORESTRY FICTION ($1000) She won a 1973 Hugo Award for her novella “The Word for World is Forest”

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD ($400) The lifestyle of Argentina’s crianceros is herding this horned animal that, like sheep, produces meat & wool

($800) In 1935 journalist Eric Sevareid wrote an account of this 4-letter First Nations people going from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay

IDIOMS & EXPRESSIONS ($800) A proverbial expression of something fake; the Continental Congress issued them, with a motto meaning “the outcome is in doubt”

($1200) A small carnivore appears in this phrase meaning to sneakily avoid an obligation

($1600) As what you “give” someone to eject them, it’s 2 words & possessive; meaning to crash a show, one word, no ‘s

THAT DRINK IS NAMED FOR ME! ($800) The uninitiated should beware of the Bloody Caesar, augmented with the juice of one of these creatures

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: HOW’D THEY COME UP WITH IT?
($200) The Zenith Radio Nurse, the first of these, was invented following the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s son
($400) A Nintendo employee saw a bored commuter playing with a calculator, leading to this product that was released in 1989
($600) Roy Raymond created this lingerie store since he felt trained corsetieres at department stores treated men as outsiders
($800) Civil War vet John Pemberton’s attempt to make an opiate-free painkiller eventually led him to create this drink
($1000) NASA scientist Lonnie Johnson came up with this alliterative toy after a heat pump he was working on shot a stream of water

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