Final Jeopardy: Hollywood Names (6-16-26)
Here are some more clues from the 6/16/2026 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.
LET’S DUET ($1000) Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber collabed on this ultimate anti-party song
ANCIENT NAMES ($1600) The prestigious Fields Medal for mathematics depicts him on one side & his sphere inscribed in a cylinder on the other
TELE- LIKE IT IS ($2000) A high holiday time tradition in L.A. & beyond is watching the Dancing Rabbis on the telethon of this Orthodox Jewish movement
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($200) Bill Clinton jokingly called this resident “the crown jewel of the Federal penal system”
($400) This U.S. armed forces honor instituted in 1782 was originally call the Badge of Military Merit
($600) It’s 1970 & You need a plumber or psychic– where to look? An ad campaign said, “Let your fingers do the walking” through these
($800) This nickname of heavyweight champ Joe Louis is inscribed on his headstone at Arlington National Cemetery
($1000) It’s the name shared by a bloom of the Caryopteris genus seen here and a murderous fellow of a Charles Perrault fairy tale
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Another somewhat uneven game. My 2 fellow Queensites (is that a word?) started out OK but the thoroughbred took charge at the half-mile pole. I did quite well but also made some expensive, glaring errors. I did get all 3 DDs. The first wasn’t a gimme, but the foreign language in the clue and the big hint about the former city name revealed it. I don’t drink wine but I read about it sometimes, so got that DD. The Russian church’s name happens to be the same as the one my wife belonged to when we met. The few stumpers stumped me too.
I didn’t think anyone would get Final, so props to Nabil for that. I might not have known it if I hadn’t heard about him recently. I think it was an interview with Chris Nolan on Colbert’s show.
Wow, it freaks me out when contestants say they’ve been trying to get on for 20+ years. Not sure if I’d have that persistence. I tried out once, wasn’t particularly brilliant or charming, but got called 3 months later. One guy from Sacramento was on his 5th try. He passed the written test but I don’t know if he ever made it to the finish line. My sister got picked for WoF 40 years ago but was pregnant and sick and never got the magic callback.
It sure was a good game for Adam. I got the candle poet and the one mentioning the fairy tale villain but I never knew it was the name of a plant.