Final Jeopardy: 21st Century Heroes (3-5-26)

Here are some more clues from the 3/5/2026 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.

SOUNDS ALL AROUND ($1000) This sound maker popular for centuries takes it name in part from “string”; many are plucked when it’s played

SAY YOUR PRAYERS ($400) “Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink” is from a prayer in this many-chaptered Bible book

($1000) Hebrew for “hear”, this prayer has been said for centuries by Jewish martyrs & is uttered by Dr. Robby in a moment of crisis on “The Pitt”

EPONYMS ($800) This type of internal combustion engine was named for a German guy with the first name of Rudolf

FLOWERS ($400) Fleur-de-lis can refer to a lily as well as to this flower whose name also has 4 letters

($400) That’s Rory McIlroy about to chip his ball out of these flowering bushes at the 2018 Masters

ASIA MAJOR ($400) In Korea, the equivalent of the fairy tale opener “Once upon a time” is “back when” these big cats “used to smoke”

($1200) Rudyard Kipling’s poem has inspired some to refer to the Irrawaddy River as “The Road to” this city

THE 18th CENTURY WORLD WITH JAMIE FRASER ($2000) In pre-Revolution America, Jamie & Claire are caught up in a rebellion in this coastal state where Governor Tryon angered the people by building a palace at New Bern

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: “U-G-H” BUT NOT “UGH”!
($200) In a lullaby when this breaks, “the cradle will fall”
($400) It’s the best medicine, according to a proverb
($600) Home to Vassar College, this city on the Hudson River is approximately 75 miles north of New York City
($800) Like the Trobriand one in the Southwestern Pacific, it’s a long but shallow depression in the seabed
($1000) This type of battleship take its name from one launched in 1906, suggesting that it feared zero others

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