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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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: CROSSWORD CLUES “P”
($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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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.