Final Jeopardy: Bestsellers (7-13-26)
The Final Jeopardy question (7/13/2026) in the category “Bestsellers” was:
2 of the bestselling books ever based on true crime are 1974’s “Helter Skelter” & this one from about 10 years before
7x champ Caleb Groen, a law & policy student orig. from Thousand Oaks, CA, won $201,000 last week. The only other player to go over $200K in 7 games this season was Harrison Whitaker. In Game 8, Caleb is up against: Molly Rakes, a H.S. English teacher from Inwood, WV; and Mike Neighbors, a legal news editor from Los Angeles, CA.
Round 1 Categories: You Say It’s Your Earth Day – Golf – Music Has Charms – To Soothe – The Savage Beast – Frequently Misquoted
Mike found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Frequently Misquoted” under the $600 on the 2nd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $800, nobody else was on the board. Mike bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
This 4-word phrase of explanation doesn’t appear in any of Conan Doyle’s writings, but it was in common use by 1909 show
Caleb finished in the lead with $8,000. Mike was in second place with $3,200. Molly was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Warrior Women – Movies About Movies – Dots! – 2-Word Countries – State of the Union – Ace” It!
Caleb got the first Daily Double in “Warrior Women” under the $1,200 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $7,600 now, $4,800 more than Molly in second place. Caleb bet $4,500 and he was RIGHT.
In 1885 the warrior/shaman Lozen fought beside this leader of the Chiricahua Apache tribe who was famous for his daring escapes show
Mike got the last Daily Double in “‘Ace’ It!” under the $1,600 clue on the 16th pick of the round. In last place with $3,600, he had $10,900 less than Caleb’s lead. Mike bet $3,000 and had a couple of extra letters in his response so that was WRONG.
Used in a negative sense, it’s been defined as contentment with the status quo that prevents you from trying harder show
Caleb finished in the lead with a runaway $18,500. Molly was in second place with $8,400. Mike was last with $3,800. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “IN COLD BLOOD”
Truman Capote 1966 book “In Cold Blood” chronicled the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas. Ex-convicts, Richard Hickok and Perry Smith, murdered 4 members of the family while attempting to steal a safe they thought Herbert Clutter kept in his house. Capote coined the phrase “nonfiction novel” because he changed some of the details of the crime. Nevertheless, “In Cold Blood” was the best-selling true crime book in history until Vincent Bugliosi’s book “Helter Skelter” was published in 1974. Bugliosi was the lead prosecutor in the main case against Charles Manson and his “family members.
In case you’re wondering what the third best true crime book is, goodreads.com lists “The Stranger Beside Me” (1980) by Ann Rule as No. 3. I don’t know if that means best-selling or best read but I do know it’s about Ted Bundy.
Mike bet $27 and finished with $3,827.
Molly didn’t bet anything, standing pat on $8,400.
Caleb bet $1,000 and won the game with $19,500. That gives Caleb an 8-day total of $220,500.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE SAVAGE BEAST ($800) One of the world’s deadliest, the Brazilian wandering one of these creepy crawlies bears the genus Phoneutria, Greek for murderess
STATE OF THE UNION ($1200) In 1995 this union based in Ohio, the URW, voted to merge with the United Steelworkers Union
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “NEWER WORDS”
Philosophers use it for language that accompanies an action, like “I dub thee knight”; it also means done for show or signal show
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