Final Jeopardy: Country Distinctions (7-16-26)
Here are some more clues from the 7/16/2026 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.
WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING?! ($200) Not far– along 42nd Street on the S Train from Grand Central to this “newsy” station
TV CHARACTERS ($1200) Rip & Beth try to start fresh in Texas in this 2026 series in the “Yellowstone” family
STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL ($1600) This 9-letter verb means to remove vulgar or otherwise objectionable material from a printed work
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: GIMME 5 SYLLABLES
($200) Gimme some skin! Or rather, gimme this branch of medicine dealing with the skin
($400) Verb meaning to travel around the earth, originally completely via water
($600) It’s the act of being released from parental responsibility & going full sui juris
($800) Caustic or bitter in behavior, this “A”djective often describes a bad divorce
($1000) It’s the fear of words, which would be pretty terrible to have right now in the middle of a language category
ANSWERS: show
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What did Ken say? “Hoe is never the answer!”
I wasn’t watching that closely, so, the only DD I concentrated on was the third, but got it. However I missed FJ with Nepal. I also thought it would be a tiny country (relatively), and vacillated between Bhutan and Nepal until I settled on the incorrect latter.
Jason, there’s just no way smaller countries could match India for most vegetarians just because of population. Nepal’s population is approx. 30M, way more than Bhutan. 38% of 30M is 11.4M. ‘Nuff said.
P.S. In Wednesday’s game, after Marisa came up with hoe, Ken said “No, never correct out here. Nobody should try “What’s a hoe?”
The clue was percentage, which is irrespective of population. No big thing.
Thank you for the clarification as to what Ken said. That brought to mind when there was an eel to be identified, and Ken pointed with his left hand and said, “That’s a moray!”
Yes, Jason, I realized that it said percentage after I posted that. Duh! 😁
Still, for countries that import their beef, Bhutan and Nepal have very low percentages indentifying as vegetarians.
Why is North Korea not the answer?
I didn’t do too badly, but Caleb cleaned my clock as well his opponents’ timepieces. Final took me mere seconds to discern and I can’t believe the champ missed it. I knew the 2nd and 3rd DDs. Didn’t get the stumpers. Thought the Latin teacher would know the fear of words, though I didn’t. I did get the FJ from 2 years ago, though at the time I probably would not have. Somewhere in between I saw them on Colbert.
How could Bhutan not be the right answer?
idk why the judges didn’t give “expunge” to Lea on that $1600 Same Vowel clue. Merriam-Webster lists expunge under the synonyms.
It asked for a 9-letter word. As so often happens, the contestant didn’t read it carefully. Like “hoe” last night for the 10-letter tool.
Oh, okay, sometime not reading the clue carefully happens to me, too.
btw, the link on the 2 years ago line goes to the recap of that game, and you can see what you said about FJ! at the time.
Only 6 games left this season, whoever wins tomorrow’s game gets to kick off the final week of Season 42 on Monday.
The 43rd season premieres on September 14th with the 44th Wheel of Fortune season premiere.