Final Jeopardy: Art & Artists (2-6-26)
Here are some more clues from the 2/6/2026 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.
NONFICTION ($600) “The Beast in the Clouds” tells of 2 of Teddy Roosevelt’s sons & their successful search for this animal in the Himalayas
THE HAND I’VE BEEN DEALT ($1000) In gin rummy, after you’ve formed as many “melds” or card combos as possible, what’s left in your hand is called this (like an HBO series)
A PERFECT 10 ($1600) The tenth & highest degree in York Rite Freemasonry dubs the initiate one of these, like a member of a crusader army
THEIR LAST FILM ($1200) In his last role, “90210” star Luke Perry fulfilled a wish from his bucket list: working with Tarantino, in this film
WE’RE BUILDING WORDS OVER HERE ($1200) Adjective for a short period of time + ablative in grammar = this document holder
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: MODERN TECH
($200) The original limit for a tweet on Twitter was this many characters
($400) In 2012’s U.S. v. Jones, the Supreme Court said cops need a warrant to attach one of these tracking devices to a suspect’s car
($600) Abbreviated PV, these cells convert solar into electrical energy using layers of semiconductors
($800) Allan Cormack shared a Nobel Prize for co-inventing this imaging technique, many folks’ intro to the word tomography
($1000) This mathematician & rear admiral in the U.S. Navy popularized the word “bug” to describe unexplained computer problems
ANSWERS: show
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That means Eric and Veronica are eliminated because they both finished with zero. They will each go home with 5,000. Karen and Drew have survived the cut and their chances of a wild card are much better.
If I remember correctly, May 21, 2021 was the first time ever that Veronica Vichit-Vadakan cleared the board.
Semifinalists:
Matt Amodio: $18,800
Roger Craig: $15,000
Wild Cards:
Karen Farrell: $16,400
Drew Basile: $7,200
Veronica Vichit-Vadakan: $0 ($7,200)
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Eric Ahasic: $0 ($5,600)
One of these days we will see a match that isnt a runaway. If Matt and Roger aren’t in the final it will be an upset
This isn’t that week for matchups that aren’t runaways.