Final Jeopardy: Playwrights (4-28-26)

Here are some more clues from the 4/28/2026 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.

INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL PARKS ($1000) The scenic alpine beauty of Fjordland National Park isn’t to be enjoyed in Norway, but in this land, 11,000 miles away

LAST NAMES ($800) This last name of a famous poet is also a nickname from Middle English for a guy who is a tall glass of water

NEARER MY POD TO THEE ($1200) Debuting in 2024, “Not Gonna Lie” stars this future sister-in-law of Taylor Swift

($2000) “Don’t Hitchhike” & “Never Get in a White Van” are among the “Life Rules” followed by superfans of this hit podcast

BUSINESS HISTORY ($1200) Hatch Show Print, in business since 1879, produced the posters when singer Roy Acuff ran for governor of this state in 1948

($2000) In the 1960s & ’70s black-owned Johnson products was famous for this item whose name includes a hairstyle

HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY, ROUTE 66! ($1200) So-called muffler men built from this material used in insulation were once advertising fixtures along the road; many still stand today

($1600) On Route 66 in Erick, Oklahoma, the 100th Meridian Museum honors the unofficial eastern boundary of this U.S. Canadian region

O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN ($2000) Sometime between 1487 & 1488, this man who later sailed with Da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope but likely never saw it

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: RHYME TIME
($200) A stack of scrabble letters
($400) A woolen cap for a bivalve
($600) To use far more glue than is necessary
($800) To really think about what’s over there, thataway
($1000) Deep-seated ill will among news broadcasters

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