Final Jeopardy: Mountains (4-20-26)
Here are some more clues from the 4/20/2026 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.
HOPE ($1200) This New York jeweler nicknamed the “King of Diamonds” donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian in 1958
The contestants got all the clues in FROM THE FRENCH:
($400) Making baby boomers blanch, a 2019 survey found this weekly stipend from mom & dad to a kid averages about $30
($800) A bivy tent gets its name by shortening this French-derived word for a temporary encampment
($1200) This Indiana city whose name is 2 French words gave us “Jeopardy!” superchamp Harrison Whitaker
($1600) Often, an animal with an Anglo-Saxon name, like sheep, got a French-derived one when prepared for the table, like this entrée
($2000) In “Mission: Impossible–Fallout”, this type of file could have Ethan Hunt in big trouble
ANSWERS: show
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($200) This brass instrument weighs in at 20 to 30 pounds but I wanna bring in the novelty 100-pound one called Big Carl
($400) The seat of Pima County, this city sits on the Santa Cruz River
($600) This little Richard song mentions “a gal named Sue” who rocks to both the east & the west
($800) This style of architecture included mullioned windows & decorative chimneys
($1000) Composed of 9 small coral islands in Oceania scattered over 360 miles, this country was once known as the Ellice Islands
ANSWERS: show
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Didn’t matter in the long run, but after Jamie’s rash DD wager near the end, Caleb could have prevented a lock game if he’d answered that last $2000 question. Caleb played well, just couldn’t match Jamie’s breadth of knowledge or buzzer speed. He knew a lot of stuff I didn’t.
Final stumped me completely, other than knowing it was Switzerland. Got the first 2 DDs, the VA college stumper (one of my best friend’s kids went there) and the diamond king. Knew more of the $1000 and 2000 clues than usual.
I don’t know why they accepted greed for envy. I thought jealousy and envy were synonyms.
Jealousy and envy are synonyms, GeorgeK. They were looking for the synonym for covetousness.
As was usually the case, Jamie won the game with another runaway. Anyways, I performed about average in the game, and went with the Matterhorn for FJ.