Final Jeopardy: Scientific Books (5-27-26)

Here are some more clues from the 5/27/2026 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.

A BIG COUNTRY ($400) Though it lost about 350,000 square miles of territory in 1947, it was still the world’s 7th-largest country

TV SHOWS BY CHARACTERS ($400) Uncle Junior, Johnny Sack & Richie Aprile

ROOMMATES ($400) Everyone needs their alone time, and a quiet place to count their bottle caps; and that’s why roommates may want to avoid this type of apartment where one room opens right into the next one like the cars on a train

WINNING WORDS ($1200) Future “Teen Jeopardy!” champ Amanda Goad won the Bee with this word, Aristotle’s school, or a hall for public lectures

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: WORLD RELIGIONS
($400) The Baha’i gather every 19 days for a meeting called a feast; they also must do this, one letter less, for 19 days each year
($800) This movement that sought to modify Orthodox Judaism in a changing world opened its first temple in 1810 in Germany
($1200) The 5 precepts of this, more or less, are don’t kill, don’t steal, don’t lie, don’t commit adultery & don’t get wasted
($1600) This religion’s name derives from Sanskrit Jina, meaning “saint” or “victorious one”
($2000) The Quran is Islam’s scripture; the sayings & traditions of Muhammad are called this, Arabic for “report”

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