Final Jeopardy: Names In Entertainment (7-1-26)

Here are some more clues from the 7/1/2026 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.

INTERNAL RHYME WORDS ($200) Vingt-et-un is the French name of this game

($1000) A wild miss from a pistol, or a hurtful comment made at random

DOESN’T GROW ON TREES ($800) Thanks to marketing whiz Ed Gelsthorpe, Ocean Spray introduced this, its first blended juice product, in 1964

($1000) The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge a feast including this, more like a cake than something you spoon up

EPISTOLARY NOVELS ($400) Brits say this “band” for rubber band; it’s also the type of deformation a rubber band undergoes, meaning it regains its shape

($2000) The title character & letter writer of this 1964 novel by Saul Bellow is a professor of English, not a German film director

WORD ORIGINS ($2000) This parchment that has writing removed to make room for new writing is from ancient Greek for “scraped again”

SCIENCE ($1600) Rocks frozen into a glacier’s body carve these parallel grooves as the glacier makes its slow journey

($2000) Richard Evans Schultes, Father of Ethnobotany, showed that this poison on arrows in the Amazon came from the plants of the genus strychnos

FILM & TV CAMEOS ($1600) In the film version of “21 Jump Street”, Peter DeLuise & this other star of the TV series make brief cameos & are promptly killed off

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: ENDS IN “Z”
($200) For Valentine’s Day 2026, an exclusive alien on of these candy dispensers was introduced
($400) Wynton Marsalis describes this style of music as “freedom of expression with a groove”
($600) Amethyst is a purple variety of this
($800) With more than 2,500 residents, Givat Brenner is one of the largest of this type of Israeli collective community
($1000) On its return from space, this Russian craft makes a hard landing somewhere on the steppes of Kazakhstan

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