Final Jeopardy: Famous Lines From Literature (5-26-26)

Here are some more clues from the 5/26/2026 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.

ARCHAEOLOGY ($800) In the Sahara, a depiction of 2 life-sized giraffes is the largest animal one of these objects

AMERICAN AUTHORS ($800) In addition to his Easy Rawlins detective novels, he’s also written science fiction & several plays

COMMON BONDS ($800) Sei, minke, bowhead

THE OPERAS OF GIOVANNI ANTONIO KRINGI ($2000) For this 2-word procession in “Aida”, the premiere had elephants; Kringi wanted dancing poodles in “Il gradasso”

2-WORD MAGAZINE TITLES ($2000) This fashion magazine was founded in 1867 with Mary Louise Booth as its editor; the double-A spelling came in 1929

OVERSEAS TERRITORIES ($400) The Île de la Posession is one of the Crozet Islands, part of this country’s southern & Antarctic territories

($2000) The vineyards of Pico Island in this Portuguese archipelago are a UNESCO World Heritage Site

ANAGRAMS OF EACH OTHER ($1600) The front side of a coin & very wordy ANSWER: show

D-DAY ($1600) Brendan Fraser: “If you see a plane, it will be ours”, Ike reassured his troops, knowing that over Normandy the Allies had achieved not just air superiority but this even more complete dominance of the skies

($2000) Brendan Fraser: The strategic Pointe du Hoc overlooked both American invasion beaches; the task of scaling its imposing cliffs & capturing the gun emplacements in the face of constant fire fell to two battalions of these elite U.S. Army troops whose motto is that they “Lead the Way”

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 13-LETTER WORDS
($200) An event that occurs every 4 years happens this adverbial way
($400) “I” know if you’re disobedient or disrespectful to authority, you’re this adjective, soldier!
($600) It can mean both hastiness & rain, for example
($800) You’re not the Pope, so stop doing this, speaking in a pompous or dogmatic manner
($1000) Latin word for the head of a family; in law it follows “diligens” to mean a theoretical person who takes proper care

ANSWERS: show