Final Jeopardy: Coins of the World (2-5-26)
Here are some more clues from the 2/5/2026 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.
STARTS WITH A ROMAN NUMERAL ($1000) 150: casual pants hemmed at mid-calf
I LIKE BIG BOOKS & I CANNOT LIE ($2000) A princess is thrust into a world of magic in “Shield of Sparrows”, a romantasy epic bestseller by this author
WARNING: MAY CAUSE WEEPING ($1600) Written to comfort troubled teens, this R.E.M. song sums up its message with the line “You’re Not Alone”
The players only missed 1 clue in 3-LETTER RESPONSES:
($200) Roger Goodell has been its commissioner since 2006
($400) A website offering news, podcasts & a magazine aimed at members of the Mormon Church is called this Living
($600) Ready for a road trip? Its M5 touring car has a starting sticker price of only $125,300
($800) Changing movie history, “Toy Story” is often credited as the first feature fully created using this
($1000) On a prescription it means take 4 times a day
3-LETTER ANSWERS: show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: LITTLE-HEARD WORDS
($400) retroussé, meaning charmingly turned up at the end, is usually applied to this body part
($800) It’s an upright post like the ones seen here
($1200) Meaning to prevent or ward off, this archaic-sounding 7-letter word often follows “heaven”
($1600) The old word wenen, meaning to think, led to this adjective meaning excessive, as in pride or arrogance
($2000) A nominal promotion without always the full privileges & pay; George McClellan became this type of captain in the Mexican War
ANSWERS: show
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I was 2/3 on DD and got FJ. That third DD was just a nothing for me.
And, of course, I’m biased, but, QID was not difficult. I could give you an easy way to remember, but, I don’t want to give a TS response.
Karen looked destined to be long gone. Her recovery after beginning so poorly was something to see.
Jason, you can tell us the easy way to remember QID in tomorrow’s comments 😉
Nice comeback by Karen to get herself into contention for advancement. The frequency of her wrong answers early on was dizzying. I missed all the DDs and FJ but did OK otherwise. I think the $1000 3-letter clue may have been a stumper. Regardless, I should have known it. Also shouid have known the Suriname clue; pretty sure we had neighbors from there in the 60s. The casual pants clue was also about a clothing item I remember from that era.
I see Matt is now a NYer. Definitely looking older. Did he really have to write “What Kenya” instead of What is Kenya or his customary What’s Kenya? They may not grade strictly on spelling, but decent grammar should be required. Including a question mark.
Yes, Howard, the $1000 3-Letter clue was a stumper. I said the right answer for Suriname but could not help wondering if I was wrong when Matt came up with Portuguese! He is, by and large, smarter than me.
Be that as it may, I ran the Little Heard Words category. 😁
Impressive. I whiffed on those.
Semifinalists:
Matt Amodio: $18,800
Wild Cards:
Karen Farrell: $16,400
Drew Basile: $7,200
3,600 is what Drew had at the end of Double Jeopardy! Drew and Karen doubled up. At the end of the show, we saw that Drew and Karen will each go home with 5,000.