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
ANSWERS: show
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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.