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)”

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

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