Final Jeopardy: Tributes (6-12-26)

Here are some more clues from the 6/12/2026 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.

THE PICTURE OF HEALTH ($600) Here’s a (image) healthy reading on a device for measuring this

($600) A shiny coat (image) is a sign of health in dogs like the bird-hunting breed called this

HAIRY STYLES ($1000) A hairstyle of sectioned & spiraled knots bears the name of this Niger-Congo language group that includes Zulu

OTHER “D.J.”s ($2000) Lyndon Johnson was sworn in by Sarah T. Hughes who had this title

1926 BOOKSHELF ($400) In D.H. Lawrence’s “The Plumed Serpent”, a woman enters a world of pre-Columbian rituals in this New World nation

($2000) His masterpiece “Red Cavalry” is about his experiences embedded with some tough Cossacks in a Polish-Soviet war

BODIES OF WATER WITH FEMALE NAMES ($400) Rising in County Cavan, this river is named for a goddess who opened a well to the Celtic underworld

($2000) This river in Australia’s Northern Territory was named for a dowager queen of Britain

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: THE ANIMAL “IN THE” METAPHOR
($200) To be frozen in fear is to be “caught like” this unfortunate creature, glare or no glare
($400) There’s a small wild canine in this term for a treacherous infiltrator
($600) This 11-word phrase means its better to have a sure thing than to risk it for double
($800) The Latin phrase latet anguis in herba is the source of this phrase for a pretended friend or lurking danger
($1000) A person who has no use for something but selfishly prevents others from enjoying it is one of these

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