Final Jeopardy: The Calendar (4-1-26)
The Final Jeopardy question (4/1/2026) in the category “The Calendar” was:
Mark Twain wrote the quip that on this day of the year, “we are reminded of what we are on the other 364”
13x champ Jamie Ding, a bureaucrat & law student from Lawrenceville, NJ, had a big game yesterday and brought his winnings up to $360,000. In Game 14, he takes on: Jessica Frankenfield, an event planner from Philadelphia, PA; and George Thomas, a former engineer from Mount Prospect, IL.
Round 1 Categories: World Flags – Around the U.S. Capitol – Must Be Hump Day – 4 E’s: A Jolly Good Fellow – Terms From Olympic Sports – Last Year’s News
Jamie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Around the U.S. Capitol” under the $800 clue on the 1st pick of the round. Nobody was on the board. Jamie bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
This central interior space has a volume of approximately 1.3 million cubic feet show
Jamie finished in the lead with $14,600. George was in second place with $200. Jessica was last with negative $800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Could Have Been an Email – Banned Books – Documentaries – Foreign Words & Phrases – Mind, Your – “P”S & Queues
Jamie found the first Daily Double in “Mind, Your” under the $1,600 clue on the 3rd pick. He was in the lead with $17,400 now, $17,200 more than George in second place. Jamie bet $7,600 and he was RIGHT.
Carl Jung coined this 2-word term for primordial memories & impulses that he theorized were shared by everyone show
Jamie got the last Daily Double in “‘P’s & Queues” under the $2,000 clue on the 16th pick of the round. In the lead with $32,600, he had $27,400 more than Jessica in second place. Jamie bet $12,400 and he was RIGHT.
More than 3 million people a year queue up to visit this Paris cultural center named for a French president show
Jamie finished in the lead with a runaway $55,800. Jessica was in second place with $5,200. George was last with negative $1,800 and out of the game at this point. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHAT IS APRIL 1 / APRIL FOOLS’ DAY?
This Mark Twain quote actually comes from a calendar– Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar, to be more specific. In Twain’s 1894 work “The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson”, each chapter begins with a quote (or two) from the title character’s calendar. Here’s the exact quote from Chapter XXI, the novel’s last chapter:
“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.”
Jessica got it right. She bet $800 and finished with $6,000.
Jamie came up with Labor Day. He lost a whopping $44,200 and finished with $11,600. That was twice as shocking as watching Jamie practically play the whole game by himself.
A triple stumper from each round:
MUST BE HUMP DAY ($1000) These cattle that originated in India are characterized by a distinctive shoulder hump
“P”s & QUEUES ($800) Perhaps the people lining up to get into this museum are there to see Zurbarán’s 1640 masterpiece “Agnus Dei”
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “PHYSICISTS”
This man with a force named after him published an 1835 scientific treatise on the physics of billiard balls show
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Not our best April Fool’s Day. However, Jamie Ding will be back tomorrow for Game 15, and I can’t promise that Jamie will take the exact same swing that he did today, have FJ! work out in his favor, and make up for this missed opportunity, but you never know.
Wow! Didn’t that happen to him in another game. He made a giant FJ! bet and lost.
Yes, in his second game, Jamie went from $34,000 to $3,933 when he got FJ! wrong.
Jamie Ding sets a new record for the highest money lost on a Final Jeopardy clue with $44,200. He would have an even 100,000 but he missed.