Final Jeopardy: Composers (2-2-26)

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

LITERARY BIOGRAPHY ($400) Stephen Greenblatt’s “Will in the World” takes the title character from this “small provincial town” to success in London

($1000) Biographer James Atlas coped with the “inadvertently comic” name of this “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” author

RUGS NOT DRUGS ($800) There’s no high like a shopping high! Browse online for a new rug made from this 5-letter agave fiber also used to make rope

($1000) Skip caffeine and stay awake by making a rug; try this type, made using a certain tool to pull yarn or cloth through coarse material

CHARACTER CREATORS ($800) George Grossmith was the first to play Gilbert & Sullivan roles like Ko-Ko, this “Lord High” personage in “The Mikado”

($1200) She said she stopped recognizing herself in Carrie Bradshaw in Season 3 of “Sex and the City”

($2000) Philip Roth’s creations include Portnoy, who has a complaint, & this aging puppeteer in the novel his “Theater”

RELIGION ($1600) In the steps to sainthood before beatification, a person is declared this, meaning they lived a heroically virtuous life

SCHOOLING YOU IN MASSACHUSETTS ($1200) Though its name screams “the law”, this U. in Waltham has no law school; to get a J.D. with this name on it, go to Louisville

WHAT A WORD!($400) tête-bêche, a term for a piar of items identical but with one upside down, is most commonly used of these collectibles

($1200) Meaning “to predict”, this verb is from Latin & we prophesy you’ll know the word is 5 letters longer than prophesy

($2000) Northerners supporting & profiting from Reconstruction were carpetbaggers; pro-Reconstruction Southerners, these

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: APT ANAGRAMS
($200) A dad joke for those with college-age kids: DIRTY ROOM
($400) A type of exchange: VOICES RANT ON
($600) There’s a limit to how much you can spend with one: BAD CREDIT
($800) The people who do that: MOON STARERS
($1000) Henry VIII shut ’em down: AMEN STORIES

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