Final Jeopardy: U.S. Business (3-26-26)

Here are some more clues from the 3/26/2026 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.

GLOBAL FOOD ($1600) With its creamy texture & mild taste, ricotta cheese is traditionally made in Italy from this milk component

HISTORY ($400) This ruling dynasty of English monarchs that came to power in 1485 originated in Wales

I PLAY BASSOON ($400) Mozart wrote 2 works for bassoon: a concerto & a sonata with this large string instrument; it has a wide range like the bassoon’s

The players got all the clues in PLOT HOLES:
($200) With Javert on his mind, he “was seeking a hole in which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell”
($400) In a 1937 fantasy novel, this “well-to-do” guy lived in a hole “in the neighbourhood of the Hill”
($600) He lives in a comfy hole “in the middle of the wild wood” & on a snowy night, it’s a good thing for Rat & Mole that he does
($800) He “approached the hole he had dug. … with the aid of the torch… the treasure was there”; start counting, Monte Cristo!
($1000) This “colorful” camp is where “you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun… (to) turn him into a good boy”

PLOT HOLE ANSWERS: show

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: WHAT IS THAT THING?!
($200) Ew! That thing is this mollusk-containing adjective meaning soft & moist, like a hand I don’t want to shake
($400) Ugh! That thing is bulging & swollen, i.e., this word from Greek for the edible part of an onion
($600) Keep that thing outside! That thing emits a this type of odor that comes from the glandular secretions of a male deer
($800) That thing is really this word meaning twisted & covered in knots; Shakespeare uses it (about a tree) but not the -ly ending version
($1000) I must admit that thing does have this appealing type of milky luster that calls to mind an October birthstone

ANSWERS: show