Final Jeopardy: Europe (2-20-26)

Here are some more clues from the 2/20/2026 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.

The players missed two clues in TV PETS:

($200) Created by Seth McFarlane, he has a wit as dry as the martinis he drinks
($400) On “The Office”, Angela had several cats, but this one met with an untimely death thanks to Dwight & a freezer
($600) Walt’s bestie on “Lost” was this beautiful blonde pooch; I can hear the castaways yelling for him in the jungle even now
($800) Sharing a name with an angel of death, this female companion of Gargamel means to make the Smurfs pay
($1000) 1930s Yorkshire is the setting for this PBS adaptation with veterinarian James Herriot looking after animals like Tricki, a Pekingese

TV PETS ANSWERS: show

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: LOANWORDS
($200) Puzzle it out– it’s from a shortening of the Japanese for “the numbers are restricted to single status”
($400) From the French, it’s a pre-dinner alcoholic drink meant to stimulate the appetite
($600) We get this pluralized word for a remote area– & a comic strip about 2 African-American kids– from Tagalog for “mountain”
($800) 2 German words that mean “lightning” & “war”, respectively, combine to form this loanword
($1000) Italian for “set against” gives us this art history term for a figure with greater weight on one leg

ANSWERS: show