Final Jeopardy: American Artists (2-3-26)

Here are some more clues from the 2/3/2026 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.

LET’S SEE SOME I.D. ($1000) Various types of this card all carry a name & number; one says, “Valid for work only with DHS authorization

COVER SONGS ($200) “Cover Me” is an album of covers of songs written by him, like “For You” & “Atlantic City”, though oddly, not “Cover Me”

BACK IN THE USSR ($200) By invading Afghanistan, forcing a boycott, the Soviets denied themselves seeing Tracy Caulkins swim in this city in 1980

($800) This landlocked Central Asian Soviet republic was the last to formally declare independence before the USSR was dissolved in 1991

BAGS ($1000) Bags from this fashion house include the popular Hug Bag & the Fiamma, named for found Salvatore’s daughter

WORDS OF MOUTH ($1000) You are acting very cool but you’re insincere if this won’t happen; it was already a saying back in the 1540s

BEFORE, DURING & AFTER ($400) Storybook fowl & her precious ova become a breakfast dish for the man who play Alan Turing on film
($800) Frontierswoman of yore stars on a TV series where a woman is accidentally inseminated & joins Eugenides’ literary Lisbon sisters

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THAT’S A LONG TITLE ($400) “The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of” him, “of York, Mariner: who lived eight and twenty years, all alone” keeps going

U.S. GEOGRAPHY ($2000) This largest of Alaska’s Aleutian islands is home to the active Shishaldin volcano

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: ODD POLITICAL TERMS
($400) A 19th century redistricting map in Massachusetts resembling a certain amphibian helped create this portmanteau
($800) Britannica calls Rachel Maddow a “policy” this word; add a “y” to the end & the word becomes off-kilter
($1200) Journalist Michael Kinsley wrote that a gaffe is “when a politician inadvertently tells this
($1600) This alliterative 2-word vehicular barb for a wealthy do-good was first used to describe a Republican
($2000) George Costanza might have loved Biden’s battle with this portmanteau; it’s when companies offer less product, like fewer chips

ANSWERS:
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