Final Jeopardy: 20th Century History (7-15-26)

Here are some more clues from the 7/15/2026 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.

QUORTETS ($400) A category-appropriate synonym for this word: Booooring

($600) Lose your blues & give us this word that means physically &/or conceptually unrestrained

($1000) Per the OED, it’s “a popular dance involving arm movements mimicking… coupling rods

DOCTORS ($400) Dr. Samuel Katz helped develop a vaccine in 1963 to save millions of kids from this, also called rubeola

U.S. MOUNTAINS ($1200) This “A”-section of the Appalachians contains the highest peaks in both Pennsylvania & West Virginia

POEMS ($400) From what’s now Italy, not so bad in springtime, Robert Browning wrote “Oh, to be in” this country, “now that April’s there”

REAL & METAPHORICAL ROADS ($400) Per 19th c. humorist Josh Billings, the road to this synonym for disaster is wide “to accommodate the great amount of travel”

($2000) A real term from agriculture & commerce, this kind of southern “road” became a symbol of rural degradation from a 1932 novel

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: BRITISH SONGSTRESSES
($400) She recorded her album “I Forgive You” during breaks in filming “Wicked”, like for an actors’ strike
($800) The foundation named for this singer who died 15 years ago has programmes for young women coming out of addiction
($1200) Member of Suede, girlfriend of Blur’s Damon Albarn & lead singer of Elastica, Justine Frischmann was the female face of this ’90s trend
($1600) Catherine is the full first name of this singer whose 1978 debut single went, “Heathcliff, it’s me, I’m Cathy”
($2000) In 2025 her songs, like “Madeline”, made it clear her marriage to David Harbour did not end well

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