Final Jeopardy: Heading North (6-10-26)

Here are some more clues from the 6/10/2026 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.

MINE, ALL MINE ($400) Deeper than the Empire State Building is tall, Siberia’s Mirny mine is owned & operated by the world’s largest producer of these

($600) Thomas Newcomen revolutionized mining in 1712 with the 1st atmospheric steam engine, which could perform this urgent function

($800) This nonprecious ore that gets turned into your car, fridge, etc. makes up over 90% of the metal mined worldwide

THE FIFA WORLD CUP ($600) Alexi Lalas: “Catching the final live on July 19, 82,500 fans will pack this East Coast stadium that’s also home to the NFL’s Jets & Giants”

($800) Rob Stone: “Called the Queen of Football, this Brazilian forward scored a record, for man or woman, 17 goals playing in 6 World Cups

“S”CIENCE ($1200) It’s the type of cell membrane needed for osmosis, a process critical to maintaining homeostasis in the body

($2000) Often sticky, this female reproductive flower part sits atop the pistil & is where pollen lands to begin fertilization

NEWS AGENCIES ($1200) This news agency that bears the name of its German-born founder

($2000) You might know this Russian outlet, originally the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency, by a shorter name

IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT ($1600) Wesley Snipes, in the title role on a hijacked plane, quips, “Always bet on black”

($2000) Matthew Modine leads a B-17 crew on their final bombing mission over Germany during World War II

GERMAN WORDS UND PHRASES ($1600) If you’re good at doing this, you have Sprachgefühl, & should do well in the category

($2000) It’s German for “joy” and is the first word of the “Ode to Joy”

THAT’S 2 HOURS OF MY LIFE… ($1600) Clifton Truman Daniel plays his presidential Grandpa in a revival of the show scorchingly titled do this “Harry!”

($2000) In “The Year of Magical Thinking”, Vanessa Redgrave played this “poet of the great Californian emptiness”

I’LL NEVER GET BACK ($2000) On July 16, 1910 this explorer left England on HMS Saxon, bound for Cape Town, then for the South Pole

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: TRIPLE RHYME TIME
($200) Bodacious booty of a baseball adjudicator
($400) A creature like Tinkerbell whose hirsuteness causes quite the fright
($600) Uncool moniker for your new painting enclosure
($800) Mistake-making pickled fish from the sea named for Vitus
($1000) An order to forcefully take the Shanghai maples

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