Final Jeopardy: Energy (5-8-26)

Here are some more clues from the 5/8/2026 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.

MATERIALS ($400) It’s estimated that 1/3 of 1930s U.S. cookbook recipes included this material, especially in the popular congealed salads

($800) tennis.com said 1989 was the last time a tour event was won with a wood racquet, actually this type of melded material, wood & graphite

FEELING YOUR OATS ($600) A village in the extreme north of mainland Britain is “John O'” these, also a word for hulled oats

PRAY CHIC ($1200) 3 knots in a corded rope or cincture, signify vows of poverty, chastity & obedience taken by friars of this religious order

($1600) Fringes are affixed to the 4 corners of the tallit, one of these garments worn by Jewish men during the morning prayer service

21st CENTURY TV THEME SONG LYRICS ($800) “Don’t sing if you want to live long, they have no use for your song, you’re dead, you’re dead, you’re dead… & out of this world”

($000) Mumford (no sons): “Yeah, might be all that you get, yeah, I guess this might well be it, but heaven knowns I’ve tried”

$2000) A recent Jagger little pill: “surrounded by losers, misfits & boozers… you made one mistake, you got burned at the stake”

SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY… ($1200) In a sonnet about this mysterious woman, Shakespeare writes, “Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower”

LIKE THE KNIGHT ($2000) After King Arthur is mortally wounded in his last battle, this faithful but lesser-known knight throws Excalibur into the lake

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: FRENCH SCRAMBLE
($200) Camembert, perhaps: EGO FARM
($400) It puts a roof over your head: NO AIMS
($600) Your kinfolk: ELF MAIL
($800) Many look forward to this day: MEDIAS
($1000) Found across the channel: ENTER REGAL

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