Final Jeopardy: Tributes (6-12-26)
The Final Jeopardy question (6/12/2026) in the category “Tributes” was:
Big Ben has been purposely silenced in honor of a person on only 2 occasions: the funerals of these 2 non-royals, 48 years apart
New champ Matt Wheeler, an associate registrar & songwriter from Mount Joy, PA, won $13,500 yesterday. In Game 2, his opponents are: Erin Schor, a legislative director from Lansing, MI; and Adam Rensen, an attorney & theater producer from Memphis, TN.
Round 1 Categories: Presidential Gifs – The Animal “in the” Metaphor – The Picture of Health – 4 Ever More – Hairy Styles – Disco All the Time. Kiss, Occasionally
Matt found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “4 Ever More” under the $800 on the first pick of the round. Nobody was on the board. Matt bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
In 1789 George Washington created the 4 original cabinet posts, with Thomas Jefferson holding this one show
Adam finished in the lead with $7,000. Erin was in second place with $4,200. Matt was last with $2,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Other “D.J.”s – 1926 Bookshelf – Alliteration – Bodies of Water with Female Names – History on TV – Yelp Reviews of the Universe
Adam got the first Daily Double in “Yelp Reviews of the Universe” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $14,600 now, $10,000 more than Erin in second place. Adam bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
Went to this Galilean moon with a continental name. Just a bunch of ice. Antarctica at least has penguins. Just ice here. Boring show
Erin got the last Daily Double in “1926 Bookshelf” under the $800 clue on the 16th pick of the round. In second place with $5,800, she had $18,000 less than Adam’s lead. Erin bet $3,000 but drew a blank so she was WRONG.
“The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” ends, “I wish” this man “had never retired from work & come here to grow vegetable marrows” show
Adam finished in the lead with a runaway $25,000. Matt was in second place with $5,000. Erin was last with $4,800. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO ARE WINSTON CHURCHILL & MARGARET THATCHER?
Big Ben is the nickname of the Great Clock of Westminster’s Great Bell, although most refer to the whole structure by that name. The quarter bells chime every 15 minutes and the Great Bell chimes every hour alongside the quarter bells. When Sir Winston Churchill died in 1965, Big Ben was silenced at 9:45 a.m. as his funeral began and remained so for the rest of the day. 48 years later, the same honor was accorded to Baroness Marrgaret Thatcher during her funeral. These were fitting tributes for the Prime Ministers known as “The British Bulldog” and “The Iron Lady”.
Naturally, your curious recapper wanted to know when Big Ben’s chimes were silenced for royals, as the clue sort of implies. Londonist published a list of all the times they were silenced from 1859 through 2007. Churchill is on the list but not a single royal. That’s because there is a tradition of tolling the Great Bell for every year of a monarch’s life. It began in 1910 with the passing of Edward VII, age 68. The great bell tolled 70 times for George V, and 56 times for George VI. The record so far is 96 times for Elizabeth II. Edward VIII, who abdicated in 1936 and became the Duke of Windsor, had no state funeral.
Erin only had Churchill. She lost $4,000 and finished with $800.
Matt must have missed the “non” part of the clue. He had the 2 Queen Elizabeths. He lost $4,599 and had $401 left.
Adam had no response. He lost his $5,000 bet but won the game with $20,000. Adam Remson is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
HISTORY ON TV ($1200) Tom Tykwer, known for directing “Run Lola Run”, returned to the same city to co-create the Weimar Republic drama “Babylon” here
($2000) It’s been noted that one B-17 mission could last longer than this whole miniseries about the 100th Bomb Group
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “AMERICA”
Helping draft an executive order in 1961, Hobart Taylor Jr. almost used the word “positive”, but instead chose this alliterative phrase show
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Erin was half correct on this triple stumper. It’s been a rough week for FJ! Only 2 out of 15 correct responses in Final this week. Hopefully next week’s Finals will be easier.