Final Jeopardy: Countries of the World (3-6-26)
Here are some more clues from the 3/6/2026 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.
BOASTING A COAST This country ($1000) with 2 names in English has coastline on the Gulf of Martaban, an arm of the Andaman Sea
VEGAS CASINO NAMES ($800) Synonyms for this word include cultured & urbane, & that reminds me… who needs a drink at the table?
SECRET MEETINGS ($800) For papal conclaves, blacked out windows ensure privacy in this building, where electors vote, burn ballots & swear an oath of secrecy
($2000) Marked “Secret Reich Matter”, a single copy remains of the grim protocol outlined at this 1942 conference of Nazi leaders
10-LETTER WORDS ($2000) It’s a traditional boat song made famous by Venice’s gondoliers
EARTH SCIENCE ($1200) The heat index combines current temperature & this, water vapor in the air as a percentage of its saturation point
($1600) Sphalerite is the principal ore of this widely used metal employed in galvanizing steel against corrosion
($2000) These clouds are described as basically fog, just a few thousand feet higher
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: BE VERY QUIET
($200) This 4-letter word comes before “down” in an order to stifle rowdiness; a Taylor Swift song titles says you need to do it
($400) You can be as poor as one of these worship-house rodents, or as quiet as one; your choice
($600) Part of the name of the 1980 Winter Olympics site, it means quiet or peaceful
($800) Quality of a table procured at a restaurant for a later date, or restrained verbally in general
($1000) Shh, I need you to talk quietly, this 2-word Italian term
ANSWERS: show
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I was somewhat piqued by Heidi’s response to the nation name in French. The nation states that it is to be addressed in French. The clue asked for the name in French. Ergo. “Ivory Coast” SHOULD have been ruled incorrect. Ken giving the right response (in French) to me, was wrong.
That’s all I have to say.
There’s just no way Ken could reject Heidi’s “Ivory Coast” response. That was a long time ago (in the 80s, I believe) when the country announced they would no longer recognize translations of Côte d’Ivoire in official matters. It was not a mandate to the entire world and nations everywhere continue to report on Côte d’Ivoire in their own languages to this day. (Examples: Costa de Marfil in Spanish, Die Elfenbeinküste in German, Ivoorkust in Dutch).
Here’s a DD from 5/28/21, “You can give us either the French or English name of this African country whose legislative capital is Yamoussoukro”
I don’t recall the exact clue, so I can’t dispute your point. But after all, the category was Boasting a Coast. We had a cool local TV reporter not long ago from Cote d’Ivoire with a distinct accent, but she vanished suddenly. I looked her up online and she’d bailed for Fox affiliate in San Diego.
Here’s the exact clue: BOASTING A COAST ($800) Bounded to the north by Mali, this French-named nation is perfect for the category
(There’s no directive to respond in French and, seriously, I can’t imagine that ever happening!)
Well, me being me, I would have responded in French! Also, I am just waiting to say Rapa Nui instead of Easter Island, and Las Islas Malvinas instead of The Falkland Islands! (Of course, unless the clue specified the English!)
I just thought that, when it said “French named”, well, you had to use the French!
I think it’s fair to say that the contestants know way more languages than the usual Romance languages that show up in Jeopardy! clues. Quentin demonstrated that when he spoke Tetum during the chat last Tuesday. (Being the language maven that you are, I’m sure you’ll recognize the Portuguese influence there!!)
I added the chat on Page 2 of that game.
Wow, James and Heidi took off from the get-go and never let up. Cory rallied but couldn’t keep up. That $9K wager by James was gutsy. I got the 2nd/3rd DDs but whiffed on Final. The numbers led me to Ecuador and I didn’t go any further. I sure hope Heidi gets a callback.
How did one of them get sotto voce (I knew that one), but none could come up with the quality of a restaurant table for a future date? And I thought everynne knows what temperature is combined with to come up with a heat index. The words in the clue all but gave it away.
I really had a laugh at my response to that $200 clue in “Be Very Quiet” — I don’t know many Taylor Swift song titles so my immediate response to that 4-letter word was “pipe” as it in “pipe down.” It turns out that it is the title of a song by Drake.
Another one my parents used to say to tell us to be quiet was “keep it down to a dull roar”