Final Jeopardy: Historic Books (7-14-26)
The Final Jeopardy question (7/14/2026) in the category “Historic Books” was:
Ann Eliza Webb, an ex-spouse of this man, penned an exposé about the experience titled “Wife No. 19”
8x champ Caleb Groen, a law & policy student orig. from Thousand Oaks, CA, has now won $220,500, after a string of runaways. He’ll try to keep that momentum going in Game 9 as he takes on these 2 players: Patience Bruce, a real estate title examiner from Medford, WI; and Khalid Kurji, a cleantech funder from Toronto, Ontario.
Round 1 Categories: The Century Mark – Cars & Trucks – 4, 4 – “Man”agrammed Superheroes – Thin Lizard – Therapy Talk
Caleb found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “4,4” under the $1,000 on the 10th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,400, $2,200 more than Patience in second place. Caleb made it a true Daily Double and had half of it but the other half was WRONG.
Orchids are often planted in this, harvested from bogs or fens show
Caleb finished in the lead with $3,600. Patience was in second place with $3,000. Khalid was last with $800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Great Scots! – Abbreviations – At the Center of Everything – Lit Bits – The Pacific Northwest – Naming Names in Song
Khalid got the first Daily Double in “Great Scots!” under the $1,600 clue on the first pick of the round. He was in last place with $800 now, $2,800 less than Caleb’s lead. Khalid bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
His name lives on in the waterproof garments he developed using a special rubber preparation between layers of cloth show
Caleb got the last Daily Double in “At the Center of Everything” under the $800 clue on the 19th pick of the round. In the lead with $18,000, he had $11,600 more than Khalid in second place. Caleb bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Traditionally the altar is central in a Catholic church; in a Protestant church, where the word is the focus, it’s this structure show
Caleb finished in the lead with a runaway $23,000. Patience was in second place with $9,400. Khalid was last with $8,400. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS BRIGHAM YOUNG
Ann Eliza Webb was actually the 53rd woman Brigham Young married. The “Wife No. 19” title of her exposé was likely due to fluctuation of wives due to death, divorce, or other factors. Webb’s suit for divorce against Brigham Young attracted national attention. She got her divorce but not the alimony she sought. Webb chose to spill the beans on Brigham Young and polygamy, becoming an activist on the lecture circuit. She also testified before Congress in 1874, in support of anti-polygamy laws. It would still be almost 20 years before the LDS Church renounced the practice, as a condition of obtaining statehood. In 2020, polygamy was decriminalized in Utah and it is now considered an infraction.
Webb was Ann Eliza’s maiden name. “Wife No. 19” was published under the name Ann Eliza Young. She was married and divorced 3 times: first from James Dee, then from Brigham Young, and finally from Moses Dennings. She alleged various abuses and sought alimony in each cause of action.
Khalid thought it was Hugh Hefner, who was married 3 times. He lost $8,399 and finished with $1.00.
Patience got it right. She doubled up and finished with $18,800.
Caleb thought it was Vladimir Nabokov, whose only marriage lasted 52 years. Caleb lost $3,000 but won the game with the remaining $20,000. His 9-day total is $240,500.
A triple stumper from each round:
THIN LIZARD ($1000) Charles Darwin’s review of the marine species of this lizard, which can launch snot rockets of salt after diving? “Disgusting”
AT THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING ($1600) At the center of the brain, the corpus callosum carries signals between hemispheres via 200 million these, also called nerve fibers
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “1960s PEOPLE”
He said that California prison psych tests he took were ones he had designed, so he made himself look docile & unlikely to escape; then he did show
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