Final Jeopardy: Celebrity Memoirs (3-27-26)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/27/2026) in the category “Celebrity Memoirs” was:
In the title of a 2023 memoir, Dame Judi Dench calls him “The Man who Pays the Rent”
10x champ Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat & law student from Lawrenceville, NJ, has now won $245,802. In Game 11, he is up against: Brent Wilson, a manager research analyst from Toronto, Ontario; and Tanya Iyer, a student orig. from Lisle, IL.
Round 1 Categories: Movie Opening Scenes – A Tunnel of Fun – Let’s Check Out the Library – Big Dog – Ah, “Spring” Time – That’s a Pricey Car Wash
Jamie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Let’s Check Out the Library” under the $800 clue on the 1st pick of the round. Nobody was on the board. Jamie bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
In 1550 Marcello Cervini became Bibliothecarius I, or first librarian of this; Giovanni Pagazzi is now Bibliothecarius L show
Jamie finished in the lead with $4,600. Brent was in second place with $3,800. Tanya was last with $600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Debut Novels – Words for the Wise – An Escapist Category – Repping the City – Knights – Hospital-ers
Jamie found the first Daily Double in “Debut Novels” under the $1,200 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $12,200 now, $4,400 more than Brent in second place. Jamie bet $2,800 and he was RIGHT.
Themes of class & the individual fill her first novel, 1902’s “The Valley of Decision”, though it’s set not in NYC but 18th c. Italy show
Jamie got the last Daily Double in “Words for the Wise” under the $800 clue on the 17th pick of the round. In the lead with $14,600, he had $6,800 more than Brent in second place. Jamie bet $4,400 and tried “je ne sais quoi.” That was WRONG.
“To know how to do”, this French phrase is the ability to say or do the right thing in any social gathering show
Jamie finished in the lead with a runaway $19,800. Brent was in second place with $9,400 and Tanya was last with $6,200. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE?
Dame Judi Dench’s 2023 memoir “Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent” is an homage to the prolific playwright of yore whose works have helped many actors make a good living. Dench is widely regarded as one of the best Shakespearean actors. Her memoir consists of a series of interviews with actor and director Brendan O’Hea. The book has been praised not only for a wealth of Shakespearean info, but also for its humor and its look at the incredible number of Shakespearean women portrayed by Dench..
Dame Judi Dench gives an unrehearsed recital of Sonnet 29 from memory on the Graham Norton Show as Arnold Schwarzenegger looks on, amazed. Arnold then contributes a bit of Hamlet.
Tanya tried Patrick Stewart. She bet and lost her whole $6,200.
Brent went with Andrew Lloyd Webber. That only cost him $257. He finished with $9,143.
Jamie thought it was James Bond. He lost his $790 bet but won the game with the remaining $19,010. Jamie sweeps another week and finishes with an 11-day total of $291,820.
A triple stumper from each round:
A TUNNEL OF FUN ($1000) The Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line lets the good times roll faster between Kisarazu & this other “K” city, cutting travel from 90 minutes to 15
DEBUT NOVELS ($2000) This Wally Lamb debut novel lives up to its title as Dolores enters a mental hospital & has other troubles
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “U.S.S.R.I.P.”
Of the 15 countries formed by the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, this one is alphabetically last show
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I’m pretty sure a number of Fikkle Fame readers know a good amount of français. Raise your hand if you got that DD right that Jamie missed. He seems to know Latin quite well. I’m the opposite – I know French better, having flatly refused to study Latin in H.S. I did learn the Catholic Mass in Latin though. Then they switched it to English. 🤣
I don’t know what Brent was trying to convey with that stance after his FJ! response was revealed but I loved it!