Final Jeopardy: Island Names (2-4-26)
Here are some more clues from the 2/4/2026 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.
INFECTION: STAFF ($600) The Médecins Sans Frontières team prevents outbreaks, vaccinating 750,000 in Kinshasa against this flavivirus that causes jaundice
BREAKING IN ($1000) Speedy, the Monster & King of Keys were some aliases of the thieves who pulled off the largest diamond heist in this Flemish city
PENINSULAS ($400) One of the 4 major peninsulas of Europe, it extends 1,100 miles south from the Barents Sea
PARTY IN THE BACK ($1000) This ’90s hip-hop duo headlined their own Saturday morning cartoon show, as well as the film “House Party” & two of its sequels
WHAT A CONCEPT ($1600) In physics it’s the movement of liquid by an object placed in it; in psychology it’s yelling at your wife because your boss is a jerk
($2000) This rule also known as hypodescent was legally recognized by the Supreme Court after Plessy v. Ferguson
ALLITERATIVE PEOPLE ($1200) He executive produced TV’s “Miami Vice” & wrote & directed the film version
GIMME A LETTER! ($2000) Gimme a D! & I’ll turn a collab based on mutual interests into a collab based on (wink wink) “mutual interests”
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: PREFIXES & WORD PARTS
($200) Meaning “fake” or “false”, it can come before -science & -intellectual
($400) All in all, it comes before -vore, -bus & -present
($600) For the Greek for “secret”, this prefix became part of a game-changing word in finance in 2009
($800) xylo-, as in xylophone & xylography, literally means this
($1000) If you’ve seen a certain TV ad, you may know that this 7-letter word part before -itis refers to the eyelid
ANSWERS: show
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I was 2)3 on DD and missed FJ, cleanly. Didn’t even have a clue.
Have to agree with my buddy Howard; relatively lackluster crew in this TOC. Didn’t they used to give a trophy?
Came in at the midway point when it was still a game. That didn’t last long. Say what you will about Paolo’s DD wagers propelling him to all 3 wins, but IMO he was clearly the standout among this crew. I like the best of 7 format better than the 2-day combined score one. Even though Paolo’s win was a fait accompli after 2 days, it’s not always going to be that one-sided. Off the top of my head, I’d say this ToC field as a whole was inferior to many in the past.
I can see that I wiped out on all of the DDs, Final, and the stumpers. I at least answered a few in DJ.
Well, it started out as a competitive game, but Paolo soon left the other two competitors far behind in another clear runaway. I didn’t do well in the game at all, and went with the Philippines for Fj. IMHO, those contestants could have at least taken a guess for FJ as even a bad guess is better than nothing at all.
We got a triple stumper in the final today.
Pretty ridiculous 3 game performance from Paolo
Well, idk what you were expecting but if they had stuck to the 2-game format, Paolo would have won all the same
Congratulations to Paolo for winning the 2026 Tournament of Champions. He won the TOC in a 3 game final sweep in a runaway. Paolo also becomes the first 7 day champ to win the TOC. We’ll see Paolo again in the Jeopardy Masters in primetime later this spring on ABC. Jeopardy Invitational Tournament begins tomorrow.