Final Jeopardy: Musical Pieces (7-22-26)
Here are some more clues from the 7/22/2026 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.
A DROP IN STOCK PRICE ($600) In 2023 the stock price plummeted along with confidence in SVB, this bank with big depositors from tech & crypto
WELCOME TO TEXAS WITH KING OF THE HILL ($600) Hank Hill: “Texas leads the nation in production of these two energy sources, & a byproduct of both of them is glorious propane, useful in everything from cooking to ballooning”
($800) Peggy Hill: “There may not be a Mega Lo Mart near you, but in the world of convenience shopping Texas is also the birthplace of Circle K & this chain that grew out of the Southland Corporation”
SCIENCE GLOSSARY ($1600) Term for the process of organic material hardening into fossils; it sounds close to organic material stinkily decomposing
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($200) Military frosh (5 letters)
($400) “A man, a plan, a canal–Panama!” (10 letters)
($600) Formerly the Supreme Communist Party policymaker (9 letters)
($800) Lost in thought; distracted (11 letters)
($1000) Walked from here to there (12 letters)
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2nd day in a row a potential long-term champ got upended. Dean took control at the start, Grace hung in there the best she could, Jennifer was a non-factor (“private” for a 5-letter cadet and “opal” for a natural or cultured gem didn’t help her). But the DDs were too much for anyone to overcome. Grace wagered foolishly on Final in a lock game and cost herself a $3000 2nd-place prize. Dumb.
I had no clue on Final. 3rd DD was a cinch, didn’t know the others. Thought for sure someone would figure out the SVB bank and the company owned by Southland Corp. Guessed right on the fossil-hardening process.
The FJ from 2 years ago reminded me of a favorite “Far Side” cartoon. An aged Lone Ranger is sitting in his rocker, reading an Indian-English dictionary. He says something like “What the hey? ‘Kemo sabe’ means “horse’s rear end'”.
Howard, I thought Grace made that final bet deliberately so Jennifer could win second place.
That extra $1000 didn’t mean much to Grace when she already had $32K.
If that’s true, she’ll rethink that next spring when she gets hit by California income tax on top of federal tax.
How much of that $1,000 will be left after income and federal taxes?
Two days in a row of champs that I thought had staying power only to run into a bigger buzzsaw
Dean is our third new champ this week also nailing the biggest payday of the week so far. Dean will get to defend his title in tomorrow’s Season 42 penultimate game. Whoever wins tomorrow’s game gets to close out Season 42 as the defending champion.