Final Jeopardy: Capital Cities (8-14-26)

The Final Jeopardy question (8/14/2026) in the category “Capital Cities” was:

One of the 2 Canadian provincial capitals that share their names with a nation’s capital city

Quarterfinal 5 of the 2026 Tournament of Champions features: 4x champ, Steven Olson, a band director from Princeton, IL; 6x champ, Josh Weikert, a politics professor from Collegeville, PA; and 3x champ, Matt Massie, an attorney orig. from South Charleston, WV.

Round 1 Categories: A Random 5-Course Meal – Tree-pourri – Asian Geography – Numeric Words & Phrases – I Can Adapt – 21st Century Game Shows

Josh found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Tree-Pourri” under the $1,000 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was in second place with $2,200 now, $600 less than Matt’s lead. Josh bet $2,000 and gave it a shot with lotus. That was WRONG.

Its name meaning “enlightenment”, this type of fig tree is sacred to both Hindus & Buddhists show

WHAT IS THE BODHI TREE?

Steven finished in the lead with $3,800. Josh was second with $3,600 and Matt was last with $3,000. All clues were shown.

Continue to the original recap with the rest of the game, more information about Final Jeopardy! and 2 additional triple stumpers.

These are the stumpers and the Sneak Peek clues that are on page 2 of the original recap:

COLORFUL LIT ($800) This title character first appears in an 1892 novel “wonderfully handsome” & “unspotted from the world”

($1600) In this classic by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a woman sees a human form in the title decor, peeling in her room

DEBUT ALBUMS ($1600) With their 1990 debut, Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron, Maxine Jones & Dawn Robinson, aka this group, showed they were born to sing

GOING “PRO” ($2000) This hormone that’s produced by the pituitary gland induces milk production in nursing mothers

NATIONAL ANTHEM LORE ($1600) This Bengali poet did double duty, composing the anthems of both India & Bangladesh

SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES
($200) A brief period is being described when these 2 words precede “of a lamb’s tail”
($400) A chef calls a certain number when out of a dish; this is the number called when that item is back on the menu
($600) On CB radio, if you want to know someone’s location, you ask, “What’s your” this number
($800) Surgeons & seamstresses cling to this 18th century proverb that says careful work now will prevent patch-up work later
($1000) This 4-digit number taken from California’s Welfare & Instituions Code now has come to refer to anyone unstable

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