Final Jeopardy: 21st Century Women (3-12-26)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/12/2026) in the category “21st Century Women” was:
The Iowa legislature passed a resolution declaring February 22, 2024 her day across the state
4x champ James Denison, a college prof. & museum curator orig. from Alexandria, VA, is up to $99,400 now. Today might be the day he finally cracks the $100K mark, or it might the day one of these players sends him home: Luke Henson, a grocer from East Moline, IL; and Lydia Cawley, a director of product from Arlington, VA.
Round 1 Categories: A Real Palace – 3-Letter Verbs – Colleges & Universities – Barry Tales – Let’s Dish – Oscar Night With Conan O’Brien
James found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “3-Letter Verbs” under the $600 clue on the 18th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,400 now, $1,400 more than Luke in second place. James made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
To work diligently at your trade, or to push alcohol on someone show
James finished in the lead with $11,000. Luke was in second place with $3,600. Lydia was last with $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Tech & Science News – Entertainment by the Numbers – Lakes & Rivers – You’ve Been Heteronym”ed”! – Baroque – Obama
James found the first Daily Double in “Lakes & Rivers” under the $1,200 clue on the 6th pick. He was in the lead with $12,200 now, $6,200 more than Luke in second place. James bet $5,400 and tried Lake Titicaca. That was WRONG.
About 2/3 of Venezuela’s oil output comes from the basin of this large lake, now greatly polluted as a result show
Lydia got the last Daily Double in “Entertainment by the Numbers” under the $1,600 clue on the 12th pick. In last place with $2,200, she had $7,400 less than James’ lead. Lydia made it a true Daily Double and said “Hello, Mary.” That was WRONG.
Songs from this Broadway musical include “The Lees of Old Virginia” & “Sit Down, John” show
James finished in the lead with $14,400. Luke was in second place with $8,400 and Lydia was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS CAITLIN CLARK?
February 22, 2024 was declared Caitlin Clark Day after the Iowa House of Representatives approved House Resolution No. 110 to honor Clark’s many contributions and accomplishments in women’s basketball. The resolution has a lengthy list of WHEREAS clauses mentioning records she set as well as records she broke on her way to “becoming the most prolific scorer in NCAA women’s basketball history with a total of 3,569 career points”….
The 22nd was chosen as a salute of sorts to her jersey number, which was retired almost a year later. By the way, Clark was born on January 22nd, 2002. I don’t know whether to call that prophetic or coincidence.
Lydia came up with Gauff. She lost $27 and finished with $1,173.
Luke got it right. He bet $8,398 and finished with $16,798.
James thought it might be Collins. He lost $5,999 and finished with $8,401. That made Luke Henson the new Jeopardy! champ and we’ll see Luke tomorrow and, hopefully, you too.
A triple stumper from each round:
BARRY TALES ($1000) When this William Makepeace Thackeray novel was made into a movie, Ryan O’Neal played the title character
TECH & SCIENCE NEWS ($1600) Sharing a name with a legendary astronomer, Rubin from Nvidia is a new GPU, short for one of these
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “THE UNITED NATIONS”
Of the 9 countries that have produced a U.N.Secretary-General, this nation is the only one from its hemisphere show
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Not a great game, too many misses and blank stares. Several lame-o answers: “Hello, Mary” in the Entertainment by the Numbers category; Tess of the d’Urbervilles in the Barry category (and not a Thackeray work, to boot); and Mekong in the “I” category.
I thought all 3 DDs were pretty easy and I got Final in about 10 seconds. Tough one if you’re not big into sports.
“More clues on page 2” link didn’t work. The numeral 2 did.
Barely got the Barry CEO clue in time. Figured someone would know the warming dish. I’m pretty sure the “Go” clue was not a stumper; Luke nailed it.
I knew the warming dish and I’d bet the farm the chef from the other day knew it too 😆
I fixed those snafus.
Why did Ken say James would be back for tournament of champions?
Ken said ‘very likely,” Marilyn. If they don’t have enough 5x winners for the ToC, James will probably be at the top of the 4x winners in terms of money won. It sure looks like hell get in.
Ryan O’Neal is probably rolling over in his grave at the suggestion that he played the title role in “Tess of the D’Urbvervilles” 🤣🤣🤣 (by Thomas Hardy, by the way).
I was kind of hoping Luke would win with his cute orange bowtie. Congrats, Luke!