Final Jeopardy: Inspired By (5-14-26)

Here are some more clues from the 5/14/2026 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.

EYE ON ASIA ($400) Shinjuku & Shibuya are regarded as Tokyo’s 2 most confusing of these essential hubs

($600) In 1972 Ceylon changed its official name to Sri Lanka, which appropriately translates as “Resplendent” this

WARNING-WORTHY WEATHER ($600) The mos destructive tornadoes come from supercells, which are this loud & wet 12-letter event souped up with a rotating updraft

A LAST TIME FOR EVERYTHING ($800) It still gets carried around but was last worn by Charles II at Scone in 1651

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS ($800) Jay McInerney called this “love story of a bootlegger & a Southern belle” “The Rosetta Stone of the American Dream”

($2000) Alison Bechdel of “Fun Home” fame loves “Mansfield Park” & identifies with this lead character

IN THE NICK OF TIME ($1200) If you’re on an extremely low-carb diet, this type of compound makes up your primary source of energy

($1600) Make way for this traditional cooking technique that involves slow-cooking meat in its own fat

TRAVEL & TOURISM ($800) “The Pearl of the Orient”, this Chinese seaport is home to the historic Yu Garden & a Disney resort

($1200) Houston, we have a sightseer! You can take a tour of mission control at this Texas facility

($1600) Take a tour of the Vienna State Opera House & see the frescoes depicting Papageno, a character in this Mozart opera

GOOD HANG ($2000) With both high sugar levels & tangy acidity, the grapefruit handing in IRC, this S.E. Florida county, is tempting to pluck

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: AMBROSE BIERCE’S DEVIL’S DICTIONARY
($200) “A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker”
($400) This medieval outfit: “The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith”
($600) Often heard in Zydeco music: “An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin”
($800) This building: “A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors”
($1000) This Roman god: “A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk”

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