Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Nonfiction (4-14-26)
The Final Jeopardy question (4/14/2026) in the category “20th Century Nonfiction” was:
“Stop Fuming and Fretting” & “I Don’t Believe in Defeat” are chapters 6 & 8 in this book
22x champ Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat & law student from Lawrenceville, NJ, has won $627,600 so far in his ongoing marathon. In Game 23, his challengers are: Iain Carpenter, a healthcare IT specialist orig. from Mahomet, IL; and Stephanie Rice-Hoffner, a former car wash tech manager originally from New York, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Start Me “Up” – Literary Dreams – Food Coloring – Quotable Notables – Digging Through My Backpack – Bangers & Cash
Jamie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Food Coloring” under the $600 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was the only one on the board with $2,600. Jamie made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
The Swiss creator of these crackers came up with them as a birthday present for his wife, a Pisces show
Jamie finished in the lead with $8,400. Iain was in second place with $2,600. Stephanie was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Historic Documents – World Geography – Science-ing at Home – Novelty Architecture – Masterpiece on PBS – You Know More Dutch Than You Think
Jamie found the first Daily Double in “Historic Documents” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $14,400 now, $11,000 more than Iain in second place. Jamie bet $4,600 and was close but got one word WRONG.
Article 1 of the first of these, from 1864, says, “Ambulances and military hospitals shall be recognized as neutral” show
Jamie got the last Daily Double in “You Know More Dutch Than You Think” under the $1,600 clue on the 11th pick of the round. In the lead with $9,400, he had $6,800 more than Iain in second place. Jamie bet $2,600 and he was RIGHT.
Haven means this; Rotterdam is een Grote Haven show
Jamie finished in the lead with a runaway $18,400. Iain was in second place with $5,400. At negative $800, the game was over for Stephanie. All clues were shown.
NEITHER contestant left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHAT IS “THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING”?
Norman Vincent Peale was a well-known Protestant minister who served as pastor of New York City’s Marble Collegiate Church from 1932 until he retired in 1984. In 1952, he published “The Power of Positive Thinking”, as a motivational tool to help people discard negativity and develop peaceful and positive ways of coping. The book was a best-seller in the 1950s, has been translated to 40+ languages, and continues to sell well if Amazon reviews are a credible measure.
“The Power of Positive Thinking” had its critics even in its heyday, especially for being Bible-based but Peale was a minister after all, so what did they expect?
Iain came up with Jimi Hendrix’s autobiography. He lost $5,399 and finished with $1.00.
Jamie went with Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends” etc. He lost $2,000 but won the game with the remaining $16,400. Jamie’s 23-day total is $644,000. He is now tied with Mattea Roach with 23 games, but has close to $100K more than Mattea’s $560,983.
2 triple stumpers from MASTERPIECE ON PBS:
($1600) This period drama about a Redcoat back home in Cornwall has been called “5 seasons of Aidan Turner brooding in beautiful blouses”
($2000) This Nobel laureate wrote the novels that inspired multiple adaptations, both past & future, of “The Forsyte Saga”
2 years ago: NEITHER player left to play FJ! got this clue in “WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS”
Churchill gave a word a new meaning when he called for a “talk with Soviet Russia upon the highest level… a parley at” this show
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Not-so-good news for Stephanie- her incorrect response on the $800 You Know More Dutch Than You Think clue put her in the hole for good & must leave the game.