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
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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
ANSWERS: show
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I was 3/3 on DD, and got FJ. Once in the chute, it was “who else could it be?” clue. The “chute” was balaclava. Also from that war was the Cardigan sweater!
Did anyone else notice how physically BIG Chris was? There was no way they could height match with him up there!
Yes, Jason, I couldn’t help noticing how big Chris was when I made the image of the final scores!
Another early KO. Kristal showed some early promise but fizzled repeatedly as it progressed. Chris stumbled through the first clue he tried and eventually recovered, but just barely. I did OK, got all the DDs but had no idea on Final. But “Light Brigade” was a huge clue, in hindsight.
Caleb’s wild wagers have boosted his daily average to almost $29K. Not bad. During Ken’s initial run he averaged around $33K/day. Knew the Alaska Goldpanners sport; Queeg’s ship (the one Chris couldn’t get out of his mouth); the Colorstay lipstick maker (don’t ask me how); and the 80s metal band (whose name describes the frequent commenters on this site, LOL).
Perhaps the M…. Few would be more apt, Howard. 🤣
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Hmmm…….Well, it was another runaway for Caleb, but another fascinating game nevertheless. As for me, I did rather poorly in the game. For lack of a better choice, I also went with Queen Victoria for FJ. Yeah, I knew that the queen died in the late 19th century.
Well, Queen Victoria actually died in January 1901 so I stand corrected.
How well I remember that drill that busts up concrete. Whenever I had a day off from work, they would be on my street with the damned thing at 7 a.m. grrr
Well VJ, in my days, it was called a jackhammer, and not a p……….. drill. In that respect, whichever of the contestants who came up with that response shouldn’t have been given credit.
The category, Rick, the category– the right response had to start with 2 consonants.
Regardless VJ, it is not normally referred to as a pneumatic drill, but rather a jackhammer. I mean, there are a lot of pneumatic drills around, but the vast majority of them aren’t designed to bust up concrete.
I’m not gonna argue the point, Rick. I believe Jeopardy! will stand by the clue and maybe they will tell you why if you email them. Or, you can look it up on Wikipedia which shows that the 2 terms can be interchangeable and if you disagree with that, take it up with them.
That was a big leap from Monday to today. Caleb is getting stronger and stronger as well as Final Jeopardy! He got the first 3 finals wrong but he gets better at Final each time.