Final Jeopardy: Saints (2-13-26)
The Final Jeopardy question (2/13/2026) in the category “Saints” was:
Mentioned several times in a 1599 play, this patron saint of cobblers had a feast day that coincided with the Battle of Agincourt
The first semifinal match in the 2026 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament features: Roger Craig, an applied scientist orig. from Johnstown, PA; Jen Giles, a teacher from Longmont, CO; and Drew Basile, a writer from Birmingham, MI.
Here’s the lineup for the next 2 semifinals:
Mon 2/16 Matt Amodio, Andrew He, Alison Betts
Tue 2/17 Long Nguyen, Karen Farrell, Drew Goins
Round 1 Categories: Women – Stock It to Me – Common Knowledge – Song & Book: Same Title – Reversible Words – Down in the Dump
Jen found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Song & Book: Same Title” under the $800 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. With $1,000, she was the only one with any money. Jen made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
Don Henley looks back at an old relationship; Roger Kahn looks back at the baseball players of the 1950s show
Drew finished in the lead with $6,000. Jen was in second place with $2,400 and Roger was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Occidental Tourist – Writers – A Science Brief – Lockups – Movie Magic – First Name Words
Roger found the first Daily Double in “A Science Brief” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. He was in second place with $3,200 now, $2,800 less than Drew’s lead. “Well, I’m a scientist,” Roger said. He bet it all and he was RIGHT.
The Cassini-Huyens mission found rippling sand dunes & liquid seas on this moon show
Drew got the last Daily Double in “Writers” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick. In second place with $5,600, he had $2,000 less than Roger’s lead. Drew made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Dickens saluted this writer as “My Dear Sir” but also expressed doubt that it was actually a man behind the name (it wasn’t) show
Roger finished in the lead with $18,400. Drew was in second place with $14,000. Jen was last with $4,800. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS ST. CRISPIN?
St. Crispin and his twin brother Crispinian were two martyrs to the Christian faith, dating back to the third century. Whether they were real or not, the pair’s feast day of October 25th was also the date of the real Battle of Agincourt in the Hundred Years’ War. In William Shakespeare’s play, “Henry V”, the bard used the feast day as an explanation of why so many men weren’t working, leaving Henry’s army vastly outnumbered by the French. This gave Henry the opportunity to deliver the famous “we few…we band of brothers” speech.
Here’s a link to Laurence Olivier’s rendition of the St. Crispin’s Day speech from Henry V (1944) and, in case you want to compare it, here’s the same speech by Kenneth Branagh in Henry V (1989). Branagh was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar in this role.
Jen thought it might be St. Swithin. She lost her $725 bet and finished with $4,075.
Drew got it right, though he must have thought he would get it wrong because he didn’t risk a farthing of his $14,000. (I didn’t think he bet that Roger would get it wrong, but that was his only chance to win now.)
Roger got it right, too. He bet $9,601 and won the game with $28,001. Roger Craig advances to the finals.
A triple stumper from each round:
COMMON KNOWLEDGE ($600) This future Supreme Court Justice gave a series of lectures in Boston on common law, which became his 1881 book, “The Common Law”
THE OCCIDENTAL TOURIST ($2000) I’m paying a visit to this former penal colony, a vowel-heavy city on Tierra del Fuego; just saw a penguin
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “THEATER”
A 1955 play review noted “restless Delta folk” & “lives as uncomfortable & insecure as the proverbial” this title show
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I was 2/3 on DD and missed FJ. Got about 70% of TS.
After the correct FJ was announced, I thought back to Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V, and the speech. Unfortunately, I did not recall when was Agincourt, so, didn’t even matter!
Roger once again did his slow and steady wins the race, enunciating clearly, and rolling like a slow-moving, 2 million pound freight train. I don’t recall who picked him to win (Howard, VJ. or someone else), but, unless Matt really turns it up, Roger is my horse.
Roger has long been a very daring player, going big on DDs/FJ and taking stabs at clues he doesn’t necessarily know. It’s been to his detriment in some of his prior experiences. It was a virtual certainty that he’d wager at least $9601 in FJ. Jen was never really in the game, but had an outside chance. Drew was in a tenuous position. He could have wagered $4401 to go for the win in case Roger missed or bet $0, but a wrong answer would have left him with $9599, or one dollar less than Jen if she doubled. I had no idea which saint was the answer.
I wasn’t too terrible tonight. First DD was in my 2 strong suits. Astounded no one knew the SCOTUS justice from Boston. Totally knew Las Vegas’ county. Second round got the Dickens-related DD, briefly thought Drew might miss it. Guessed the Parchman Farm state.
Roger has taken some heavy hits for sure, like this one, but he’s a good sport about it.
Ah, thanks, the Battle of the Decades. The tournament in which, when they intro’d the 45 players, I said the final 3 would be Ken, Brad, Roger, and that they’d finish in that order. Which I believe they did. Very surprised Roger missed that DD, it wasn’t very hard. Also Final. I knew Silence of the Lambs which was good enough, also Cuckoo’s Nest which was over 30 years prior. Both films won just about everything big at the Oscars.
Actually, Howard, Brad won. The next day was the final match.
How did 2 people get this final correct? I’m catholic and I had no idea.
They probably know these saints from the Shakespeare angle. They are mainly Anglican saints now. Crispin and his bro were kicked out of Roman Catholicism because there’s no evidence they were real. Then they reinstated them as martyrs because you can’t have too many martyrs.
Roger is now a 2 time JIT finalist. Last year he also made it to the JIT finals and this year he has done it again. Great performance by both Drew and Roger. Drew had the best first round and Roger had the best second round.