Final Jeopardy: Bestsellers (7-13-26)

Here are some more clues from the 7/13/2026 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.

WARRIOR WOMEN ($1600) Around 20 B.C. the one-eyed Queen Amanirenas of this 4-letter kingdom in modern-day Sudan fought back a Roman army

MOVIES ABOUT MOVIES ($1200) In an Oscar-nominated turn, Peter O’Toole plays a director who finds someone new for this job, the previous one having drowned

($1600) Orson Welles’ “The Other Side of the Wind”, completed well after Welles’ death, stars this other legendary director

($2000) A 2025 film with Guillaume Marbeck as Godard & Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg looks back at this 1960 French movie

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: TO SOOTHE
($200) This soothing synonym has found a good home before “into a false sense of security”
($400) Propitiating, winning back favor with a gift, usually refers to the favor of these in the ancient world
($600) You get an “A” with this 5-letter word meaning to put fears to rest
($800) With “peace” or its French equivalent at its root, this word for bringing about peace has had a bad reputation since the 1930s
($1000) To reduce the tension of a situation; it’s the main term in policing for managing a situation minimizing force

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