Final Jeopardy: Writers In Residence (4-9-26)

Here are some more clues from the 4/9/2026 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.

ALSO FOUND IN A THEATER ($800) A segment of the Tour de France; one can be hilly or flat

ALLOW ME TO INTERJECT ($200) This word indicating relief, fatigue or even disgust is a homophone of an adjective meaning small in number

($600) In Shakespeare this word typically expresses agreement, though Lady Capulet also uses it as a verb relating to wedlock

YOUNG ADULT FICTION ($1000) Seeing a piece of popcorn on a chair at the Met inspired E.L. Konigsburg to write this classic about 2 siblings who hide out there

CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS ($800) If this 3-letter word on a champagne bottle is French for “dry”, why does it actually indicate sweetness? That’s a problem!

($1200) I got an annoying call while watching the movie with Haley Bennett as this widow who built a champagne business in Napoleonic France

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 5 BLUNDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
($200) Laocoön warned his fellow citizens, but they let this huge wooden animal inside their gates anyway
($400) Losing the high ground, he moved his troops onto the plain at the Battle of Pharsalus to meet Caesar– not so “Great”, man!
($600) In tradition, Hsi & Ho had the job of predicting this, so China could arm against the sun-eating dragon, but got drunk instead
($800) This dude could not. stop. talking! Octavian “should be given praise, distinctions– & then be disposed of”; ooooops
($1000) Some advice for this King of Epirus, masater of the hollow victory; if a tile is thrown at your from a roof in Argos, duck! Or die!

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