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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I was 2/3 on DD and missed FJ. Oh well!
Long missing that one DD really put a pin in his game. The first round was lights out. The DJ round, not so much.
Within seconds, I thought of “Fried Green Tomatoes” and was 100% certain it was Fannie Flagg. Ouch!
I did OK overall, mostly in the first round. Decent game, but way too many wrong answers. I got only the 2nd DD of 3. Was sure someone would know the Zevon song, they all know so much arcane stuff. I also knew the wooden spool, the 4-letter nation, and the small carnivore.
Definitely prefer the first-to-3 format as opposed to the combined 2-day total.
Roger was in urgent mode in Double Jeopardy!, needing to catch up so he started doing his ‘buzz in first, then figure it out” thing. He really shouldn’t have buzzed in on those Idiom clues but, ultimately, it didn’t matter.
I was astonished that none of them knew the title of the Warren Zevon song. Linda Ronstadt did a cover that’s considered better than Zevon’s original.
Agreed, I love Linda’s covers, which in nearly every case equal or exceed the original. Except for “Heat Wave.” As good as hers is, nothing can match the fire and frenetic passion of the original. She’s one of very few performers I like whom I never got to see live.
This is a must win for both Roger and Long tomorrow in order to stay in the tournament. We’ll see if they can prevent Andrew from reaching two victories tomorrow.