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
ANSWERS: show
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First, Allison is always a pleasure to see. Second, her FJ “wager” was canny.
I have no idea why Josh was yelling his responses.
I was 1/3 on DD and missed FJ. That Final, though, was at least as cryptic as the Eliot Ness one, with the “Sherlock Holmes” reference. Also, not that I’m that much of a scholar, but, “autistic” is not a description that I’ve ever heard as a descriptor of Arthur “Boo” Radley. I’m not even sure when autism became part of psychiatric terminology.
It did seem a bit unsports(wo)manlike to wish failure on fellow competitors but it was a good game.
Sure never exprected to see the photogenic and effervescent Alison again. For a moment I thought she was gonna miss that easy first DD. Then she rashly went all-in on the 2nd but backed into a win. She sure felt foolish missing that DD. If the guys had, say, $7600 and $7200, the one with less could have smartly wagered $401, totally locking out Alison and hoping the leader would falter, which is more or less how it did play out as all 3 missed FJ. Isaac is whip-smart but tends to ring in a lot on clues he doesn’t know, and pays the price.
Josh’s stentorian voice nearly blew out my hearing aids.
Guessed the Holmes character, also the Armada king (only after Isaac gave me the first half). Wasn’t hard to go from buccaneer synonym to the other word. The armbone was very gettable. I think I did way better in round one. Appears the majority of stumpers were in DJ.
What a fun game, and I got a kick out of what Alison put down in FJ: “I hope that both of them had bet everything!” Well, it just so happened that her two challengers had done just that, and then handed her the win. Wow! Well, I went with Atticus Finch for FJ.
I’m assured that the reference to an Autistic person is in standing with the company policies. Why in the world would we have attention to disabilities. sex orientation, or gender preference on this show?
Semifinalists:
Matt Amodio: $18,800
Roger Craig: $15,000
Andrew He: $10,801
Alison Betts: $2,786
Drew Goins: $1,600
Wild Cards:
Karen Farrell: $16,400
Jennifer Giles: $8,400
Drew Basile: $7,200
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Mehal Shah: $6,001
Liz Feltner: $1,599
Tom Cubbage: $1
Josh Hill: $0 ($7,600 $3,400)
Isaac Hirsch: $0 ($7,600 $3,200)
Veronica Vichit-Vadakan: $0 ($7,200)
Eric Ahasic: $0 ($5,600)
Roger Craig is the one who beat Ken Jennings’ daily highest win amount. Ken’s highest was $75k, while Roger clocked $77k. This was the highest in one day until James Holzhauer laid waste to the leaderboard like a boss.
Well, I’m thinking that Adriana Harmeyer is gonna win tomorrow and, if so, whoever else is in the semis will wish they weren’t when they’re up against Adriana, Matt Amodio or Roger Craig.
I’m not familiar with Roger Craig, but Adriana and Matt are certainly sharp.
Third day in a row this week that all three players scored belowed 10,000 heading into FJ! With one quarterfinal left, Karen has secured her spot in the semifinals while Jen and Basile are on the bubble right now.
I’m sorry this keeps happening. But this is what happens when they haven’t come on Jeopardy! for a long time.
Not only that, we had another missed opportunity for a tiebreaker. Again, we’ll get that tiebreaker someday. Not today.