Final Jeopardy: 7-Letter Words (6-29-26)
Here are some more clues from the 6/29/2026 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.
HAPPY 85th ANNIVERSARY TO THE USO ($1000) A 1-man morale machine, Bob Hope performed in USO shows from 1941 until 1990 in this country, as part of Desert Shield
COMPOUND WORDS ($400) The duties of this servant seen on “Downton Abbey” include acting as valet to a male guest who somehow arrives without one
($800) This type of bag is comfortable, stylish & eases strain on the back
($1600) On Oct. 8, 1965, surgeons removed this object, 1/2 inch & 9 letters long from President Lyndon Johnson
COLLEGE TOWNS ($1600) Home to Dartmouth, in 2024 it ranked among the 10 best small college towns in a USA Today Readers’ Choice poll
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: “DIS” INFORMATION
($200) Leave your cruise ship for dry land
($400) Going back to Shakespeare, it is said that this “is the better part of valor”
($600) In the military, murder & desertion are grounds for this severe type of 2-word dismissal
($800) Newspapers for Columbus, Ohio & St. Louis feature this word in their names
($1000) It’s a product such as Lysol that’s designed to kill germs on a surface
ANSWERS: show
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Sarah looked like a contender in the first round, then stood silently until late in the game. Adam left them in his wake with an impressive array in round 2. He surprised me when he bet small on the last DD and FJ, both with big leads. He could have won an additional $10K in Final. I got Final right away because of familiarity with Palatine Hill. Also totally guessed right on the purple mountain DD. Knew all the college towns including Dartmouth’s, and dis- words. Blanked completely on the author’s characters.
Adam likes to bet low when he doesn’t like the category.
Ken likes to say that looked like a guess but it’s right, and not a bad guess when it’s wrong.
Did you or anyone else notice that graphic at the end of the show Thursday or Friday? It was a photo of a young woman with the annotation “Kyra Samson 1998=2026.” No explanation, so I looked it up. She was a production assistant, formerly worked for Bravo/Watch What Happens Live. Last September the show was taping in Chicago (I don’t recall why) and she was acting out of sorts. Michael Davies called her father and she was taken to a hospital. She had a large brain tumor: glioblastoma. Went through all sorts of treatments but to no avail. There’s a fundraiser for research trying to raise $400K and it’s almost all there already.
I don’t watch the end credits, Howard, but I saw it on YouTube. Didn’t know about the fundraiser. Thanks for posting it.
Well, it was obviously another clear runaway for Adam, and which had occurred fairly quickly in the game. I got into the game late, and flubbed the FJ. As for Paladin, that word was also used for the name of the gunslinger (starring Richard Boone) in the western TV series ‘Have Gun Will Travel’. Wire Paladin!