Final Jeopardy: World History (5-11-26)
The Final Jeopardy question (5/11/2026) in the category “World History” was:
In 1454 the future Pope Pius II saw the work of this man at the Frankfurt Fair & marveled at the “extreme elegance & accuracy”
3x champ Tristan Williams, a data scientist orig. from Lincoln, NE, won $61,199 last week. In Game 4, he’s up against: Steve Greene, a college professor from Cary, NC; and Jessica Doverspike, a marriage & family therapist from Brea, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Work Union – 1950s America – Wellness Buzzwords – The Braid-y Bunch – Nonfiction – Great Moments on SNL with Colin Jost
Tristan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Work Union” under the $1,000 clue on the 18th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,800, $2,200 more than Steve in second place. Tristan bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.
He made a few enemies during his service from 1957 to 1971 leading what was then America’s largest union show
Tristan finished in the lead with $9,100. Steve was in second place with $4,000. Jessica was last with $1,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Big Old Chunks of Time – Around the World – The King James Bible Sayeth – Made of Metal – A Song for “U” – Tough 10-Letter Words
Steve got the first Daily Double in “Around the World” under the $1,200 clue on the 7th pick. He was in second place with $5,200 now, $2,300 less than Tristan’s lead. Steve bet $3,000 and guessed Brasilia. That was WRONG.
In South America the middle of the World Monument stands just north of this capital show
Jessica got the last Daily Double in “A Song for ‘U'” under the $1,600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. In the second place with $3,800, she had $4,900 less than Tristan’s lead. Jessica made it a true Daily Double and couldn’t come up with the answer in time so she was WRONG. That was truly ironic!
Brian May said John Deacon’s bass riff was the starting point for this collaboration with David Bowie show
Tristan finished in the lead with a runaway $19,100. Steve was in second place with $5,400. Jessica was last with $400. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS GUTENBERG?
The Frankfurt Trade Fair in 1454 was the first time the public saw samples of Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible. In attendance was Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Bishop of Siena, Italy. The Bishop, later Pope Pius II, had close ties with Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, in the capacities of private secretary, diplomat and poet laureate.
Thoroughly impressed with the Gutenberg samples, the Bishop described them in a letter to the Spanish Cardinal of Sant’Angelo: “I have not seen complete Bibles, but several quires belonging to different books, exceedingly clean and correct in their script, and without error, which Your Grace could read effortlessly, even without glasses.”
Jessica had no response. She bet and lost her whole $400.
Steve went with Holbein. That cost him $3,000 and left him with $2,400.
Tristan thought it was Raphael. He lost $4,100 but won the game with the remaining $15,000. Tristan’s 4-day total is $76,199.
A triple stumper from each round:
1950s AMERICA ($1000) From Cape Canaveral in 1958, NASA sent its first satellite into space called this 1
AROUND THE WORLD ($2000) Less than 3% of the people in Zambia & this next door neighbor, directly north of Namibia, are age 65 or over
2 years ago: BOTH players left in FJ got this one in “CINEMA HISTORY”
Films made outside the U.S. in the ’50s like “3 Coins in the Fountain” & “Quo Vadis” led to an era dubbed “Hollywood on” this river show
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How embarrassing for all 3 contestants who missed an easy FJ!
Wow! Beaucoup triple stumpers in this game. Still, Tristan showed his stuff with a runaway, despite only getting one DD. Go, Tristan!
Two things they could have made easier:
— the fantasy castle guy. No one wants to buzz in on these clues even if they know the royal’s name, for fear they’ll be asked for the number and get it wrong. I think the cluewriters can and should work the number in somewhere.
— FJ! might have gone over better if it said Frankfurt Trade Show (which it was). That trade fair set the stage for the Book Fair that came later.