Final Jeopardy: Poets (6-11-26)

Here are some more clues from the 6/11/2026 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.

LA LA LAND ($400) Born in Nairobi to British parents, Roger Whittaker wrote “My Land is…” this country, often sung there

($600) Fanny Rose Howie, stage name Princess Te Rangi Pai, composed “Hine e Hine”, still a popular lullaby in this language

($800) Widely sung, “Ancient Iceland” was nixed as a national anthem for its taunts at this nation that once ruled Iceland

($1000) “The East Is Red” was an anthem of this 1966-1976 movement in China, an upheaval but not a change of government

FROZEN ($800) An ad for these frozen items had Snoop Dogg rap, “When da cheese hits your tongue it’ll scream ‘fo shizzle”

MAMMA MIA! ($1000) Born in Canada & raised in Iowa, Hulda Minthorn was the mother of this U.S. President

WEST SIDE STORIES ($400) He introduced us to characters like Chief Bromden & Randle McMurphy, who were stuck in an Oregon psychiatric hospital

MOVIE MUSICALS ($600) Satine is dying of tuberculosis in this 2001 flick, but she’s got songs to sing, & mon dieu! the show must go on!

“W”HERE IT HAPPENED ($800) In 1815 the Duke of Wellington & General Blucher celebrated at an inn called La Belle Alliance just south of this village

LANDSCAPE ART ($800) 2 Portuguese planers and 2 black slaves appear in the first European artwork to depict this country from 1637

($1200) In 1873, he painted a field of poppies near Argenteuil

($2000) Combining a double portrait and a landscape, “Mr. and Mrs. Andrews” is by this Englishman, also famous for a “Blue” portrait

THE SAME NAME GAME ($1200) A Depression-era gangster & a “Bloody Valentine” musician from Ohio

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: BIRDS
($400) Part of this wading family associated with delivering life, the marabou went the other way & is known as “the undertaker bird”
($800) One of these falcons named Frightful clocked a speedy dive of 242 mph
($1200) A ground-dwelling rail (that’s a bird) was recently seen on Floreana Island in this archipelago for the first time since an 1835 visit
($1600) There are several species of this colorful Central American flyer; the resplendent one is Guatemala’s national bird
($2000) A raised area of land is in the name of this crane that’s thought to be the oldest living species of bird

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