Final Jeopardy: Tributes (7-10-26)

Here are some more clues from the 7/10/2026 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.

SUMMER EVENTS ($200) Fairbanks, Alaska famously hosts a Midnight Sun Festival featuring this sport played by the Alaska Goldpanners

LITERARY RIDES ($400) The wreck of the Pequod liberates one of these containers as a “life-buoy” for Ishmael; it was originally built for an ailing Queequeg

($1000) Some sailors aboard this ship called Capt. Queeg the best skipper they had ever known, “just so’s you keep out of his sight”

FILMS FROM THE 2020s ($1000) The title of a 2023 sci-fi comedy starring John Boyega & Jamie Foxx declared “They Cloned” this name

FINGERNAILING IT ($1000) Later known for ColorStay lipstick, this brand used the inspiration of shiny car paint to create the first opaque nail enamel

GEOGRAPHIC DOUBLE TALK ($2000) This massive Tanzanian crater formed more than 2 million years ago when a volcano collapsed inward

6-SYLLABLE WORDS ($1600) In Los Angeles County, Avocado Heights is this kind of locale, meanng it’s not chartered or self-governing

($2000) Manta ray embryos, which can weigh 20 pounds, hatch in the uterus & are born as live young, so the rays are described as this

BAND BOOKS ($2000) “Nikki is set on fire to the eminent displeasure of the carpet” is an early line in “The Dirt”, about this ’80s metal band

OHHH, MONSIEUR ($1600) Imagine a Frenchman in 1881: “Mon Dieu, Pasteur! Immunizing cattle to eradicate this awful bacterial disease! C’est incroyable!”

($2000) Big on conic section in 1640, this theorem guy wrote an “Essai pour les coniques”– oh yeah, he turned 17 that year

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: STARTS WITH 2 CONSONANTS
($200) Let me ask you this kind of question… do you want to make a quick $200 right now?
($400) “Since my baby left me / I found a new place to” do this, to live as a resident, like at that hotel on Lonely Street
($600) I want to break down a rainbow, but Roy G. Biv isn’t doing it for me as son of these–“Richard of York gave battle in vain”? Yes! Classier
($800) A grave-robbing corpse eater, or a character whose face has seen better days on “Fallout”
($1000) We never tire of this type of heavy drill that busts up concrete with repeated hammering

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