Final Jeopardy: World of First Names (2-19-26)

Here are some more clues from the 2/19/2026 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.

ACROSS THE LIBERAL ARTS ($1000) Anthropology: An American who uses a fork & spoon & disses the Chinese use of chopsticks is an example of this 13-letter “-ism”

ROCK SONGS ($800) The Rolling Stones shared that “I know it’s only rock & roll, but” this is the result

($1000) Off their album “French Exit”, “Lovers Rock” is the biggest hit by this “Girl” group big on TikTok

SINGULAR & PLURAL ARE THE SAME ($400) A place where multiple avenues meet

($800) With a man of faith in their name, they’re known as the poor man’s lobster

($1000) Borrowed from French, it means a jargon or dialect

MAIL NOVELS ($800) Father sends home mail to Marmee & his “Little Women” in this work by Geraldine Brooks–its title is the family’s surname

($1600) Later a Martin Scorsese film, this novel by Shusaku Endo is partly written in the form of a letter from a Jesuit missionary

SHOWS ABOUT MURDER ($1200) In 2024’s “The Perfect Couple”, the wedding of this actress & daughter of Bono is preempted by her maid of honor’s murder

($1600) Emma Myers has played Wednesday Addams’ bestie Enid & plucky detective Pip on this Netflix show set in a sleepy English town

($2000) First DCI Tom Barnaby, then his cousin John, solved killings in this British show whose title is a county, not a time of year

PUTTING THE “DOUBLE” IN DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ($1600) In Sikhism, the khanda is a ritual one of these weapons, symbolizing a fight against tyranny & a defense of righteousness

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: PERUSING SOME ARTICLES
($400) “Armed attack against one…shall be considered an attack against them all”, says Article 5 of this org.’s 1949 founding treaty
($800) Articles of Impeachment from 2019 specified aid to this country had been conditioned on announcement of some investigations
($1200) The Mormon Church’s 13 Articles of Faith were written in 1842 by this man
($1600) The Continental Army’s 1st Articles of War were kinder than Britain’s: a maximum punishment of 39 of these, not hundreds
($2000) They were the lowest rank of British nobility, but the Articles of them formed the basis of the Magna Carta

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