Final Jeopardy: Poets (6-11-26)
Here are some more clues from the 6/11/2026 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.
LA LA LAND ($400) Born in Nairobi to British parents, Roger Whittaker wrote “My Land is…” this country, often sung there
($600) Fanny Rose Howie, stage name Princess Te Rangi Pai, composed “Hine e Hine”, still a popular lullaby in this language
($800) Widely sung, “Ancient Iceland” was nixed as a national anthem for its taunts at this nation that once ruled Iceland
($1000) “The East Is Red” was an anthem of this 1966-1976 movement in China, an upheaval but not a change of government
FROZEN ($800) An ad for these frozen items had Snoop Dogg rap, “When da cheese hits your tongue it’ll scream ‘fo shizzle”
MAMMA MIA! ($1000) Born in Canada & raised in Iowa, Hulda Minthorn was the mother of this U.S. President
WEST SIDE STORIES ($400) He introduced us to characters like Chief Bromden & Randle McMurphy, who were stuck in an Oregon psychiatric hospital
MOVIE MUSICALS ($600) Satine is dying of tuberculosis in this 2001 flick, but she’s got songs to sing, & mon dieu! the show must go on!
“W”HERE IT HAPPENED ($800) In 1815 the Duke of Wellington & General Blucher celebrated at an inn called La Belle Alliance just south of this village
LANDSCAPE ART ($800) 2 Portuguese planers and 2 black slaves appear in the first European artwork to depict this country from 1637
($1200) In 1873, he painted a field of poppies near Argenteuil
($2000) Combining a double portrait and a landscape, “Mr. and Mrs. Andrews” is by this Englishman, also famous for a “Blue” portrait
THE SAME NAME GAME ($1200) A Depression-era gangster & a “Bloody Valentine” musician from Ohio
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: BIRDS
($400) Part of this wading family associated with delivering life, the marabou went the other way & is known as “the undertaker bird”
($800) One of these falcons named Frightful clocked a speedy dive of 242 mph
($1200) A ground-dwelling rail (that’s a bird) was recently seen on Floreana Island in this archipelago for the first time since an 1835 visit
($1600) There are several species of this colorful Central American flyer; the resplendent one is Guatemala’s national bird
($2000) A raised area of land is in the name of this crane that’s thought to be the oldest living species of bird
ANSWERS: show
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Third straight underwhelming game. Props to Matt for knowing Final and running up a decent score without benefit of a DD. But I cringed when he said Greenland ruled Iceland. I knew the first DD but got unnecessarily sidetracked on James Michener instead of Jones. Definitely knew the third one. I had my good and bad moments throughout. Couldn’t think of the right poet so just went with Will Shakespeare.
Way, way too many wrong answers and stumpers. Some I thought would be knowable: the Guterson novel; the Chief Bromden author (who hasn’t read that or seen the movie?); Satine 2001 flick; the W village; the blue portrait artist. A quick $4800 there. Strong players would know all of those.
The More Clues on page 2 link did not work but the numeral did.
And “Les Miserables” wasn’t going to make the cut after “Les Mis” was ruled incorrect.
I got a kick out of Greenland, though. He was probably on the trail of the right response and that popped out.
My buddy Howard said what I was thinking. The only exception I might mount, though, is Matt coming to life in the DJ! round, and getting Final. That broke the streak of 2 days of “cooler” champions (my way of referring to champions that seem to “cool off” the game, vs “heaters”). Peter himself, several days ago, looked tired. Anyways, Katelynn didn’t seem to have the “deep well” of knowledge that other, stronger champs have shown in the past (and shall again, like King Arthur, coming back from Avalon).
As to Final, I said “John Milton”, my default.
All I have to say is darn those daily doubles to Katelyn. She missed all three daily doubles and it gave Matt a runaway victory.
Once again, we just can’t catch a break with not only wanting to see a female repeat champion, but also, wanting to see someone go from winning a small amount of money 1 day, after bad luck with FJ!, to winning a big amount of money the next day. That’ll happen someday. Today’s not that day.