Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Literary Names (2-9-26)

Here are some more clues from the 2/9/2026 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.

…SAID THIS NOVEL CHARACTER ($1000) “Is Mr. Edward Ferrars… going to be married?”

FROM SAMUEL JOHNSON’S 1755 DICTIONARY ($400) We think of it as a courteous title of address; to Sam, it was “a term of reproach for a Frenchman”

ANCIENT TIMES ($1600) Under this 600s B.C. Athenian lawgiver, there were many capital crimes–stole an apple? Believe it or not, straight to death

($2000) One of the main centers of the Indus civilization along with Harappa, its hyphenated name is said to mean “mound of the dead”

IT IS A CONTEST ($400) Guinness has run these contests with your own pub in Ireland as the prize; the entry must begin, “The perfect pint…”

8-LETTER U.S. CITIES ($1200) This Michigan city is home to Henry Ford college

SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SIMCHA ($400) When influencer & model Sofia Richie married Elliot Grainge in 2023, this man, her dad, was under the chuppah with her

($1200) The lavish bat mitzvah of Portia Unamnsky, daughter of “Real Housewives of” this place star Kyle Richards, was held in…Encino?

($1600) A bit ironically, he sang “I was born with the gift of a golden voice” & showed it at his 1947 bar mitzvah in Montreal

($2000) We’d guess that in 2008 this “Beautiful” singer & new mom was crying at the bris of Max Bratman

STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL ($1200) It’s the horizontal or X coordinate of a point in the Cartesian coordinate system

($400) Try to make sure your income exceeds this word, constructed as an antonym of income

($2000) Though its name is a word meaning huge, this Nile River island of ancient temples is less than a mile long

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: I’M BACK ON THE APPS
($200) In 2015 cars from this ride-sharing app ditched their large pink mustaches
($400) In 2025 the green owl mascot from this app “died”, but on the 13th day rose again, having apparently faked his own death
($600) Catalog & review films you’ve seen on this app founded in 2011; it’s been called Goodreads for movies
($800) It makes sense that the name of this app means “everything” in Arabic since you can gamble on just about everything on it
($1000) Merriam-Webster notes that the name of this app from xAI “may be the only English word that derives from Martian”

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