Final Jeopardy: Unlikely Authors (6-15-26)
Here are some more clues from the 6/15/2026 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 1930s ($1000) Beginning a tradition, this British king made a Christmas Speech in 1932, with a little help from Rudyard Kipling
TRAVELING ACROSS THE USA ($000) Throughout the East & Midwest, this system distinguishes its toll lanes with Pantone 259 purple letters on a white background
AN ADVERSARIAL RELATIONSHIP ($1200) Snakes like to eat these salamanders; these salamanders like to poison snakes
($1600) Oh, the farmer & the cowman should be friends, but when they weren’t, you got this type of open area “war”
MOVIES BY CHARACTERS ($400) Animated in 2010 & live action in 2025: Hiccup, Stoick & Tuffnut
($2000) Set in South L.A.: Doughboy & Furious Styles
BEFORE & AFTER ($1600) Theatrical productions during the warmest season that let you buy shares in the future at a contracted price
ANSWER: show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: TV: WHO SAID IT?
($200) “Derek, I love you… so pick me, choose me. Love me”
($400) To her schoolmates at Nevermore Academy: “It’s amateurs like you who give kidnapping a bad name”
($600) “Lemon, the grown-up dating world is like your haircut: sometimes awkward triangles occur”
($800) “What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons”
($1000) “Listen here, Bey, you come at the king, you best not miss”
ANSWERS: show
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To put it mildly, a very uneven show, lots of wrong answers and stumpers. But there were a lot of tough clues. I crashed on first 2 DDs, knew the 3rd. Thought the 2nd might be polonium since that’s the year Poland was invaded. Figured the FJ author was a politician, but which one? If only I’d remembered where Tikrit is….and I believe I missed every stumper.
I won’t live long enough to see a King George VIII of England. And no matter how good he might be, I’m not hiring an attorney named Benjy.
Yes, it will be a long time before William’s son George ascends to the throne and he will be George VII if and when he does. The British monarchy may be abolished before then for all we know.
I think Adam may have mixed up the number because of Edward VIII between the last 2 Georges.
Maybe I will add the next 5 in line to this post: Memorizing the English Monarchs
The movie “King Ralph”, from 1990, starred John Goodman as a Las Vegas general lowlife who turns out to be the next heir to the throne after the entire Royal Family is electrocuted at a photo shoot. In one scene, King Ralph is trying to recall a certain king, and he is counting on his fingers, and is singing a song (but I don’t recall if it is the same one you linked above, VJ!).
Of course, the premise could never occur, as the character’s birth was characterized as “illegitimate”.
This is the third week in a row where we have no daily double correct responses at all. Darn those daily doubles to Benjy. But sorry that the daily doubles were not kind to anyone.
Adam wagered $1,201, to cover a double up by Benjy.
Sometimes, it seems the contestants can’t get out of their own way.