Final Jeopardy: The 1950s (4-23-26)
Here are some more clues from the 4/23/2026 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.
BIG 12 SCHOOLS ($400) The first Baptist missionary to Texas, James Huckins co-founded this Waco university, established in 1845
RECENT HITMAKERS ($1000) In 2025, Ella Langley topped the country charts singing “she’s from…” this state; I can tell by the way he’s 2-steppin’ round the room”
CELEBRITY CHEFS ($400) In 2025 Laila Ali got in the right for the “Knock Out Kitchen” episode of “Beat” this chef
($2000) This Ethiopian Swedish-American chef is equipped to bring multicultural flavor to diners and home cooks
WORD ORIGINS ($1600) This word comes from French genealogical charts– the branching lines looked like the pied or foot of a bird
($2000) The name of this game is basically a German word minus tisch, or “table”
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: WORDS FOR THE YOUNG
($200) This adjective for a whippersnapper advanced in knowledge or skill comes from Latin words for “ahead” & “to cook”
($400) Young mariners who’ve not yet crossed the Equator have this nickname, another word for tadpole
($600) A music genre is in this 2-word affectionate term from TikTok–it’s a person who embraces the feminine side of things
($800) This 4-letter word for a neglected or abandoned child has also come to mean an extremely thin person, usually female
($1000) 2 Js are in this adjective describing juvenile ideas
ANSWERS: show
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Well, Jamie emerged from the game as the the reigning champion. Great! As for Patrick, I have no idea of what he was thinking, but “penicillin” wouldn’t have left home plate.. Another big question was why he didn’t go for broke in FJ? In any case, I didn’t do all that well in the game, but the FJ was rather obvious.
Question for the experts: the final question/answer…the answer was “polio vaccine,” but could “polio shot” be a correct answer? Thank you for any possible help on this.
I’m no expert, but I don’t see any reason why “polio shot” wouldn’t be accepted. “Shot” is used in lieu of “vaccine” all the time, even by doctors. (Mine recently asked me if I got my flu shot)
FINALLY a competitive match we can talk about. Late start here due to NFL draft. Leighanna never had a chance but at least finished on a strong note. Patrick’s all-in DD wager was shocking but he almost had to do it. Unfortunately he did not get to answer the 3rd DD. I thought all 3 DDs were easy for once, at least until I said Chiluly for the last. Maybe because of my age, but I thought Final was a cinch and that they’d all get it. (Mom told me long ago that everyone cried when FDR passed in 1945.
Some of the stumpers were very knowable. The ballroom dance/canine name; the Waco university; the two-step state. But I got only one of the Words for the Young.
I’ll guess you got the tadpole synonym. Howard. I got that one, the skinny female and the smart whippersnapper.
I got the Wister book title right away. James Drury played the title role in the TV adaptation and Doug McClure was Trampas.
I never watched any Westerns. Might have seen Bonanza once or twice. I’d have guessed Lee J Cobb was in the title role, but evidently he was not. The skinny female was the only one that quickly came to mind. As we both know, youth is wasted on the young.
That show ran for 9 seasons and Lee J. Cobb was only in the first 4. Drury and McClure were the only ones in all 9 seasons.
With 28,000, Patrick surpasses Tom Devlin’s record of 27,200 as the highest non-leading score entering Final Jeopardy! This was one of the best games played that we seen this season. Patrick has to be 100 percent a shoo-in for Second Chance next season because he made Jamie sweat for it.
I think whoever failed to dethrone Jamie, but had high scores, regardless of FJ performance, would be eligible for the Second Chance