Final Jeopardy: 1960s Novel Characters (2-11-26)

Here are some more clues from the 2/11/2026 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.

BOOK SMART ($800) Sherlock Holmes describes this man as having been “endowed by natured with a phenomenal mathematical faculty”

PROTECTION PROJECTION ($600) Barrier is a 7-letter word that starts with B & is a synonym for protection– so is this, a wall raised for defense

DROP A LETTER… ($400) From a synonym for buccaneer to get this verb meaning to chatter at length

ART OF THE RENAISSANCE ($1200) Titian was known for his portraiture of this future Armada king, who also commissioned the artist to paint Diana

($2000) Paintings from this “Elder” German artist were signed with a winged serpent between the letters “L” & “C”

I NEED SOME SPACE ($2000) It was always 5 o’clock somewhere over Mars for the Odyssey spacecraft– it’s near the polar orbit known as SSO, sun this word orbit

TELEVISION ($1200) In 2026 the “Star Trek” universe added this show about the place cadets learn of command, camaraderie & cloaking devices

($1600) Nandor & the other vampires of “What We Do in the Shadows” have lived in this New York City borough for over a century

SIDE HUSTLE PARTS OF SPEECH ($400) Not just a noun, it’s a verb used with “myself” or “herself” to mean feel satisfaction over one’s accomplishments

($2000) Mainly an adverb it’s an adjective as it ends Jefferson’s “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is…”

YOU’VE GOT A POINT ($800) Also known as tent stitch, this needle craft has a French name that tells you the stitches are small

($1200) The olecranon– the pointy, bony bit that sticks out when our elbow bends– is actually part of this bone

($2000) Ask ZZ Top– in astronomy, it’s a gravitational point at which an orbiting body will remain at rest relative to 2 larger ones

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: YOU’RE ON A ROLE
($200) For a reboot of the Pink Panther franchise, Steve Martin took on the role of this bumbling detective
($400) With roles in martial arts films like “Enter the Dragon” and “Fist of Fury”, he helped popularize the genre
($600) In 1962, she won the first Best Actress Oscar for a role in a foreign language film, “Two Women”
($800) Life was a cabaret for Lea Thompson & Natasha Richardson, 2 of the actresses who have played this role on Broadway
($1000) In the ’90s his movie roles included Richard Nixon & Picasso

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