Final Jeopardy: Books & Authors (3-10-26)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/10/2026) in the category “Books & Authors” was:
In this 1897 work the title character enters an inn with his face almost entirely covered in bandages
2x champ James Denison, a college prof. & museum curator orig. from Alexandria, VA, has now won a whopping $81,798. In Game 3, his challengers are: Tim Swankey, a retired actuary from Marcellus, NY; and Sapana Vora, a Congressional staffer from Arlington, VA
Round 1 Categories: Sub, Read It – Watch Out for That Team! – Cities Around Europe – The Business of Music – “Um” – This is Awkward
James found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Sub, Read It” under the $600 clue on the 18th pick of the round. He was tied in second place with Sapana at $1,000, $1,200 less than Tim’s lead. James made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Ronald Reagan called this 1984 book, the first novel published by the Naval Institute Press, “the perfect yarn” show
Tim finished in the lead with $3,800. James was in second place with $3,200 and Sapana was last with $2,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: 1926 – Airport Codes – “I” Movie – Element + Word – Myth-ellaneous – It’s Idiomatic
Sapana found the first Daily Double in “Airport” under the $1,200 clue on the 12th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $9,000 now, $600 more than James in second place. Sapana bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
One letter deliciously short of the city it serves, YUM has people coming & going in this state show
4 clues later, James landed on the last Daily Double in “It’s Idiomatic” under the $1,200 clue. In second place with $11,200, he had $800 less than Sapana’s lead. James bet $5,200 and he was RIGHT.
Used to describe the likelihood of something that’ll never, ever happen, it used to be followed by “with their tails forward” show
James finished in the lead with $20,000. Sapana was in second place with $13,200. Tim was last with $9,000. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “THE INVISIBLE MAN”?
In the first chapter of H.G. Wells’ 1897 classic “The Invisible Man”, the title character (aka Griffin) shows up at the Coach and Horses inn and gives the landlady, Mrs. Hall, quite a start when she brings him some food and sees “that all his forehead above his blue glasses was covered by a white bandage, and that another covered his ears, leaving not a scrap of his face exposed excepting only his pink, peaked nose.” Without his bandages, Griffin is invisible thanks to one of those Gothic science experiments gone awry.
Universal Studios paid H.G. Wells $10,000 for the movie rights to his novel and the result was the horror film “The Invisible Man” (1933), starring Claude Rains. The character inspired far too many works in too many mediums to list here. The funniest one I ever saw was “Abbott and Costello Meets the Invisible Man” (1951).
Tim thought it was that mysterious prisoner, “The Man in the Iron Mask” (1847). He lost $4,602 and finished with $4,398.
Sapana went with “The Phantom of the Opera” (1909), who hung out under the Paris Opera House. That cost her $6,801 and left her with $6,399.
James had “Dracula” (1897) — the right year, but the Count had a castle. James lost $10,999, hanging on to $9,001 which was enough to win today’s game. That gives James a 3-day total of $90,799.
A triple stumper from each round:
WATCH OUT FOR THAT TEAM! ($1000) “Northwestern might as well have tried to play football with an Iowa” this, wrote a reporter in 1895, & a nickname was born
MYTH-ELLANEOUS ($2000) After she was forbidden from doing so, she buried her brother Polyneices & was punished
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “WORLD THEATER”
This 1867 play has a reindeer hunt & a king dwelling in snowy mountains but its title character also spends time in Morocco & Egypt show
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It was another terrific game, but I was at a complete loss as to why none of the contestants couldn’t come up with the correct response for FJ. I mean, even a child could have easily come up with it. Yes, I came up with ‘The Invisible Man’ instantly.
Pretty good game. Tim did remarkably well despite two bonehead answers. Nguyen is the equivalent of Smith or Johnson in Vietnam, not China. And Bronze Age failed because bronze is an alloy, not an element.
Final was tough; I had no answer. I was hoping someone would say “Invisible Man” and reignite the controversy about the 2 novels with almost the same name. But their 3 guesses were way better than my blank.
First 2 DDs were virtual gimmes; I whiffed on the third. Thought someone would know the Spanish city thanks to the feast of San Fermin clue. I knew the A&R person but that was a definite toughie. We read the play with Polyneices, but that was 60 years ago and I did not remember any of it.
Usually when I get the final its a triple solve and not a triple miss. I definitely didnt read the book but it seemed familiar from the 67 movies about john cena
I first thought of Billy Bones showing up at the Admiral Benbow Inn in Chapter I of “Treasure Island” — but obviously, he’s not in the title, and I know RLS died in 1894 at age 44. That one was published in 1883, as it turned out, 3 years before Jekyll & Hyde.