Final Jeopardy: Historic Americans (3-23-26)

Here are some more clues from the 3/23/2026 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.

FITTING SPORTS NAMES ($800) It’s a good name for a ball player, but as a reporter noted regarding Mr. Bailey of the Reds, not so much for a pitcher

A BIT OF LIT ($1200) This Elizabethan man wrote of a very forward shepherd asking someone to “come live with me & be may love”

MIDDLE “C” ($1600) It’s who the old sheriff in town is, vis-à-vis the new sheriff in town

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: A PLACE IN HISTORY
($200) Biographer Stuart N. Lake called the shootout at this place “the key to the eminence of Wyatt Earp”
($400) Cemetery Hill was the main site of the Union Army’s artillery at this Civil War battle in July 1863
($600) 7 Popes would reign from this city on the Rhone River after Pope Clement V moved the seat of the papacy there in 1309
($800) In 1900 churches & homes of foreign-born people in Beijing were burned during this rebellion
($1000) On an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco, the place then known as this was captured by the Tlaxcaltec & the Spanish in 1521

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