Final Jeopardy: Writers In Residence (4-9-26)
Here are some more clues from the 4/9/2026 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.
ALSO FOUND IN A THEATER ($800) A segment of the Tour de France; one can be hilly or flat
ALLOW ME TO INTERJECT ($200) This word indicating relief, fatigue or even disgust is a homophone of an adjective meaning small in number
($600) In Shakespeare this word typically expresses agreement, though Lady Capulet also uses it as a verb relating to wedlock
YOUNG ADULT FICTION ($1000) Seeing a piece of popcorn on a chair at the Met inspired E.L. Konigsburg to write this classic about 2 siblings who hide out there
CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS ($800) If this 3-letter word on a champagne bottle is French for “dry”, why does it actually indicate sweetness? That’s a problem!
($1200) I got an annoying call while watching the movie with Haley Bennett as this widow who built a champagne business in Napoleonic France
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($200) Laocoön warned his fellow citizens, but they let this huge wooden animal inside their gates anyway
($400) Losing the high ground, he moved his troops onto the plain at the Battle of Pharsalus to meet Caesar– not so “Great”, man!
($600) In tradition, Hsi & Ho had the job of predicting this, so China could arm against the sun-eating dragon, but got drunk instead
($800) This dude could not. stop. talking! Octavian “should be given praise, distinctions– & then be disposed of”; ooooops
($1000) Some advice for this King of Epirus, masater of the hollow victory; if a tile is thrown at your from a roof in Argos, duck! Or die!
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In the intro, did you mean “finishing Double Jeopardy! in second place for the first time yesterday”?
Yes, that’s what I meant. Thanks for clarifying — I added those 2 words.
Thanks, VJ, much appreciated. Also, can you replace “20x winnings” (which kinda sounds like a multiplier) with “20-game winnings”?
Sure 😀
I did pretty well in the 2nd round. Was close but not correct on first DD, thought the other 2 were easy. Wiped out on Final, I said Dumas pere. Props to Jamie for knowing it. Challengers were decent tonight (I winced when Alexandra said Les Paul in the Leo category), just found it too tough to stay in touch. Jamie pretty likable but I wish he wouldn’t talk with his hands.
I bet VJ gobbled up that Latin category. I knew a few. Tour de France segment was a cinch. 3-letter French word for champagne pretty knowable–if you know the language. My little sis and I took francais many decades ago and still know it fairly well. She’s been to Paris several times. I like the French spoken in Quebec much better. More elegant-sounding.
yes, Howard, I ran that category. I know the Our Father in French, too, though I learned the ‘vous” version of that.
I’m certainly familiar with the French language up to a point, but it would hardly be my second language. Well, I did come up with ‘Notre’ instantly, but not ‘pere’. You know VJ, I surely should have known that, but I just did not use that language much at all. I
I can’t understand why the challengers don’t go for higher value clues when they have the chance. Jamie is going to get them whether they take a shot at it or not, so they might as well give it a go.
But I don’t mean throw money away by guessing like the 3rd guess on that book with the long tricky title!
I don’t know VJ as some of the clues were tough tonight. I mean, the two challengers might have both wound up in the hole, and leaving Jamie as the champion by default. Given that scenario, erring on the side of caution actually proved to be their best option (although it unfortunately didn’t pay off in this case).
Well, actually, I see now that it really wasn’t for lack of trying. Alexandra and Prithish did get a few licks in on the $1,000 row in the first round, and Alexandra did go for the last row in the last round when she could. They just couldn’t beat Jamie on the buzzer.
And with that, Jamie becomes the 8th player in Jeopardy history to win 20 or more games