Final Jeopardy: 18th Century America (2-23-26)
Here are some more clues from the 2/23/2026 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.
MAKES ($200) After a 3-year hiatus, the land cruiser from this car company returned to the United States with its 2024 model
($1000) Tesla owners could follow the light to this Swedish electric car maker, which offered discounts on trade-ins in 2025
WORDS IN 20th CENTURY HISTORY ($1000) Israel’s first PM David Ben-Gurion is often quoted as saying “In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in” these
NO STONE UNTURNED ($400) Weighing about 40 pounds, granite projectiles known as stones are launched roughly 140 feet in this competition
FROM THE GREEK ($400) This type of diet gets its name from words for “large” & “life”
BOSTON SPACE ($800) Truly a Hall of Fame, this was built in 1742 as a gift to Boston from a local merchant who did score naming rights
($1000) The Boston Marathon finishes up in this alliterative neighborhood that includes Newbury Street & Comm Ave
TOUGH VOCAB ($1600) Let’s test your this, meaning keenness or perception, from Latin for “sharpen”
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: LINES FROM CLASSIC LIT
($400) In this novel, Louisa May Alcott wrote, “Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow”
($800) Emily Brontë’s Cathy Earnshaw says of him, “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”
($1200) Want to make an impression? Walk into any room & quote Ariel from this play: “Hell is empty and all the devils are here”
($1600) From “A Farewell to Arms”: “The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at” these
($2000) “Under the bludgeonings of chance / my head is bloody, but unbowed” is from this inspiring W.E. Henley poem
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2/3 on DD, and sheepishly missed FJ. “Sheepish” because I did my first two years of med school in Grenada, where, before nutmeg, indigo was the biggest crop. I said “tobacco”, and tried to think of the fat east.
It’s something to see the relative downtrend of contestants after a couple weeks of tournaments. Good on the champ for repeating.
Too bad Katie ran out of time on FJ, but it didn’t matter. Trey locked her out, although if I were he I’d have wagered $401 in case Zach bet $0. I didn’t get Final, cotton was all I could muster.
First round was dreadful, although they all picked it up in DJ. I didn’t expect them to know SGA. “Slam dunks” instead of rebounds made me choke. Ben-Gurion clue very gettable. Granite projectiles was a very timely clue. Keenness/perception clue and 1742 Boston building I knew, as well as the alliterative neighborhood. And the Henley poem, which sharper players surely would have known. Not sure if my wife knew that poem, but I liked it enough to put it on her funeral program, along with the one from “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” which she did know and like. I got only the middle DD, although the first one was certainly knowable.
Just realized that tonight’s FJ category was the same one as when I was on the show long ago. That one I got, tonight’s I did not. (2 of the 3 state capitals that also were a national capital.)
It was another fantastic game, and pretty much a competitive one. As for me, I performed somewhat better than average. Anyways, I went with ‘tobacco’ for FJ.
I wondered if they would have known that Henley poem if the quotes were “I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul”
It certainly would have made it more recognizable as I believe it is quoted far more often than today’s clue.
It’s good to be back for regular games after 11 weeks of postseason. Katie was going for indigo but she didn’t have time to replace it. If she had started the right response a few seconds earlier, this would have not been a triple stumper.
That’s why it is our third Monday in a row to start the week with a triple stumper.