Final Jeopardy: Old Books (1-21-26)
Here are some more clues from the 1/21/2026 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
19th CENTURY AMERICA ($600) The first edition of her “Boston Cooking-School Cook Book” was published in 1896; your kitchen may have the 100th anniversary edition
NOW SEE HERE! ($800) This breed loves to perform tricks & learns new ones quickly
($1000) This impressively bearded scientist gave his name to a cathode-ray tube that led in the direction of wonderful television
“FUL” START ($600) In 2005, after 180+ years in Lower Manhattan, this fish market relocated to a glistening new Bronx location
$1000) Latin for “to strike with lightning” gives us this verb meaning “to censure”
LET’S GO TO THE SCIENCE MUSEUM ($400) This 2-word innovation was proposed by Lyman Spitzer in 1946 as an extraterrestrial observatory; we’ll see infrared images from the Spitzer one
ISLAND COUNTRIES ($1200) The southern-most of Japan’s 4 major islands, it’s home to the historic port city of Nagasaki
($2000) Following years of dispute, in 2025 the U.K. agreed to turn over the Chagos Archipelago to this island country
PLAYING SOME CLASSICAL PIANO ($2000) A 1965 record by pianist Vladimir Horowitz popularized the many, many sonatas ofthis contemporary of Vivaldi
HOW DARE YOU ($2000) Once a word for a freed slave, then a freethinker, it now refers to a rake, one who could do with a bit more restraint
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: FICTIONAL FEMALES
($200) Hamlet spurned her, Laertes’ sister
($400) “Before marriage” this Flaubert female “thought herself in love”
($600) In “Breaking Dawn”, Bella gives her hybrid daughter this hybrid first name, after her mother & mother-in-law
($800) Jean Valjean adopts this young girl after her rich dad abandoned her & her mom died
($1000) Her last name in “Vanity Fair” is no accident–she outwits other, including the also aptly named Mr. Wagg
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I had a pretty rough time tonight until Final, which I knew in half a heartbeat as soon as I saw floats and rods. I could swear they’ve used that book before–maybe one of the archivists can verify. Missed all the DDs but knew the cookbook author and of course the NYC fish market.
Howard, the book and the author have both been frequent flyers in the past. Walton was the FJ answer in the 7-17-19 game.
I have known about this book since I was a teenager, before I ever saw an episode of Jeopardy. I can’t remember who brought it up, but probably my mom or grandpa. They were big on trick spellings.
I think a lot of stuff that people in our generation think of as common knowledge is really passé.
Wow, I feared that Ben was going to dig himself deep into the red, but he then made a comeback. Anyways, I went with ‘The Farmers’ Almanac’ for FJ. Yes, I was aware that ‘The Farmers’ Almanac’ didn’t come out until much later (like some 150 years+). Yeah, ‘The Compleat Angler’ was so popular that none of the contestants came up with it, and neither did I. Quite obviously, the FJ was a tough one.
Wow these questions tonight were really hard. I did terrible the second round.
Like the 1/08/25 episode, I should have stuck with my initial thought. In that 1, I was gonna go with Sam Cameron, but I found a picture of Ferdinand Percentie on stage with Drew Goins and Enzo Cunanan, and I changed from Sam to Ferdinand. Turns out the picture was from a rehearsal game, and Sam won. Today, I was gonna root for Cameron Berry, but seeing as how I was hoping that an automatic Semi-Finalist would win this year’s Champions Wildcard, unlike last year, and it didn’t work out, I changed to Ben Ganger, because he had 4 runaways in a row, and Ben, I’m sorry to say this, but darn those Daily Doubles. Maybe, the 3rd time I change my rooting interest will be the charm.
The wagering clues were not nice to anybody today resulted our second epic fail on the wagering clues this season.