Final Jeopardy: Ranks & Titles (3-2-26)
Here are some more clues from the 3/2/2026 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.
FIRST NAME FLOWERS ($1000) Author/gardener Olivier Laing says this flower, with the name of a fleeing nymph, was “the first plant I’d fallen in love with”
COIN OF THE REALM ($1000) Some of the earliest coins were minted by this proverbially rich 6th century B.C. king of Lydia
ON THE LAMB ($800) Sterling, Massachusetts claims to be the home of the girl & a little follower from this nursery rhyme
PHYSICS ($1600) An object at rest under the influence of balanced forces is in static this, from a word meaning balance
($2000) The spreading of waves around obstacles, it occurs with light, sound & very small moving particles
MUSIC-POURRI ($1600) This first Top 10 hit by 5 Seconds of Summer was too late to be the theme for the Rob Lowe-Cynthia Gibb hockey movie
($2000) This demand to hand it over is the title of the Parliament anthem subtitled “(Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)”
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: IN THE BEGINNING (answers contain letters from “the beginning”)
($200) It’s a verb meaning “to produce”; biblically speaking, it’s what a father does vis-a-vis his children
($400) An informal name for loose-fitting sleepwear, generally less come-hither than a negligee
($600) In Louisiana, an official state donut is a thing– this thing, to be precise
($800) Word from India for butter that’s been simmered & strained to remove the milk solids
($1000) 3-letter word that’s Shakespeare-speak for “get a move on”
ANSWERS: show
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Oh Marissa, your engaging personality did you no good at all, and you indeed made some kind of Jeopardy history. For the record, I guessed the first one and nailed the other 2. Kudos to Noah for his Final J answer and fancy podium signature. That FJ word is one I don’t believe I’ve ever seen. Diana more or less had to wager $5001+, so his $1390 was spot-on in case they both missed Final.
The movie preceding “Dawn of the Dead” has to be one of the most shocking triple stumpers ever. And Robert Reich’s title in that clue was a dead giveaway as to what he was locked in. The rich king and the nursery rhyme were very attainable.
Well, Marissa kept going for broke in the DDs, but just couldn’t score. In any case, at least the woman had a lot of spunk. I’ll commend her for that. As for me, I performed about average in the game, and none of us had any idea regarding the FJ.
All 3 DDs were missed resulted our ninth DD wipeout of the season. Marissa did much worse than Porter from the 2016 Teen Tournament game.
Those Darn Daily Doubles were not kind to Marissa Klein, Porter Bowman, and some others.
Here’s the clue that made me roll my eyes today 🤣
U.S. Geography ($600) This river slithers 1,040 miles & joins the Columbia near Pasco, Washington
Actually VJ, I thought that was one of the easiest clues in the game.
Yeah, Rick, that’s why I rolled my eyes– the hint was so obvious, it was laughable
All I have to say is darn those daily doubles to Marissa. She made history in the process by becoming the first player in Jeopardy history to miss all three true daily doubles in the same game. This game breaks the record for the lowest overall Daily Double efficiency on record in the data set dating back to October 4, 2004, with -300, shattering the record from July 18, 2018, with -291.
You’ve been saying “Darn those Daily Doubles” since Hunter Appler failed to catch Pranjal Vachaspati and Buzzy Cohen for the lead.
So have I, even though Hunter Appler and Pranjal Vachaspati still would have lost to Buzzy Cohen.