Final Jeopardy: Holidays & Observances (6-19-26)
Here are some more clues from the 6/19/2026 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.
RELIGIOUS MATTERS ($1000) So far as we know, Michelangelo was no sport fisherman, yet that seems to be a tarpon he painted with this Biblical prophet
GREAT LEGS ($1000) Odin’s steed was this 8-legged horse
CHARLES CURTIS: THE MAN, THE LEGEND ($800) In 1923 Charles Curtis introduced this failed amendment to the Senate; it was written by Alice Paul
ADJECTIVAL ARTISTS ($1600) This Latino rap icon led the hip hop collective Terror Squad, who in 2004 urged us to “Lean Back” and do the Rockaway
DISTINGUISHED MEXICANS ($1600) A Washington D.C. statue in a traffic circle honors this reformist Mexican president of the 1860s
($2000) Choreographer Amalia Hernández created the troupe called these two words de Mexico, which drew from local dance traditions
METRO BOOMING ($1600) The power of the Merrimack River helped give Lowell, Mass. a population boom back when it was “The Cradle” of this 19th c. era
DON’T TRUST YOU ($800) This Y.A. book series by Sara Shepard that got the small screen treatment focuses on 4 girls & a missing friend
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: VWLLSS HWN WRDS
($200) Greetings: LH
($400) An outdoor area used as living room because oh year, you’re in paradise: LN
($600) Mark Zuckerberg owns thousands of acres on it: K
($800) You have my gratitude! MHL
($1000) Family: HN
ANSWERS: show
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What turned out to be a lock game was entertaining nevertheless. The challengers appeared to be toast early on, but both rallied beautifully, especially Jacob who said Mira Sorvino played Joe DiMaggio and made me wanna choke him. (I knew Marilyn’s other name.) And he’d have won the game if he’d just been closer entering Final. I’m pretty strict with my opinions of who should get a 2nd chance, but I’d give him one for sure.
I knew FJ couldn’t be MLK (born 1939) or Carter (born 1924) but blanked on the Dalai Lama. (A one-L lama is a Tibetan priest, a 2-L llama is a beast of burden, and a 3-alarmer is a really big fire.)
The FJ from 2 years ago was easy but the category was Sports, not Ports. I happened to be watching that game because I lived in LA and it was televised locally.
Knew the Adrien Brody character and guessed the failed amendment. Shame on them for not knowing the 19th century era. Definitely knew the Mexican troupe. Got only the middle DD but I’d wager big bucks VJ knew the last.
Yes, Howard, I got the 3rd DD. I didn’t get the first one, though, and only half of the 2nd. My knowledge of the elements is sketchy at best.
Elementary, my dear. I never took a chem class but I know a lot of the symbols and names. Science was always my weakest subject in school.
It was another fantastic game, but it eventually morphed into a clear runaway for Adam. Well, I didn’t do too well in the game, and went with Jimmy Carter for FJ.
Color me surprised again. I thought it was common knowledge that Jimmy Carter lived to be 100. Therefore, he couldn’t possibly have been born in 1935.
Huh? Well gee VJ, Ken Jennings told Deidre that ‘Jimmy Carter’ wasn’t a bad guess. Was Ken wrong?
idk why Ken said that, Rick, but maybe he meant by picking someone with a reputation for kindness (which appears to be the case with Fred Rogers, too). However, both of those guys passed away before 2025. There may be no particular reason to know that about Fred Rogers but google “Jimmy Carter 100” and you’ll see all the headlines about his 100th birthday and subsequent passing.
Carter was the only US President who lived to be 100. That was already a clue in the 12/31/2025 game:
PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS ($200) Reaching the mark in 2024, he was the first president to live to be 100
Happy Juneteenth! Adam has swept this week becoming the 6th player this season to win the entire week.