Final Jeopardy: The Funnies (7-7-26)
The Final Jeopardy question (7/7/2026) in the category “The Funnies” was:
The creator of this comic strip said, “I show 2 versions of reality, & each makes complete sense to the participant who sees it”
3x champ Caleb Groen, a law & policy student orig. from Thousand Oaks, CA, has now won $49,999. If you look at the Early Spoiler page, you might notice that Caleb’s cumulative total after the Double Jeopardy! round for those 3 games was $86,600. Perhaps his FJ! luck will change in Game 4, as he takes on: Michael Yates, a finance professor from Knoxville, TN; and Jessica Davis, a proofreader from Colonie, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Not Great, Bob! – You Asked for It – On the Bookshelf – Everybody’s Got A Plan – Until They… – Get Punched in the Face
Michael found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Everybody’s Got a Plan” under the $1,000 on the 17th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,600 now, $600 more than Caleb in second place. Michael bet it all and he was RIGHT.
At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Edmund Jennings Randolph presented the Virginia Plan that this man drafted show
Michael finished in the lead with $8,400. Caleb was in second place with $6,000. Jessica was last with $1,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Famous Buildings – From the NASA Website – Quotations – TV Title Before & After – Well, That’s Just Great – Enough Already
Michael got the first Daily Double in “Well, That’s Just Great” under the $1,200 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $11,600 now, $4,000 more than Caleb in second place. Michael bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
Described by an American astronomer in 1878, this storm stem is 10,000 miles wide & rotates counterclockwise show
Michael got the last Daily Double in “Quotations” under the $1,200 clue on the very next pick. In the lead with $16,600, he had $9,000 more than Caleb in second place. Michael bet $6,000 and guessed Ginsburg. That was WRONG.
This Supreme Court Justice in 2023 a year after being sworn in: “Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life” show
Caleb finished in the lead with $17,600. Michael and Jessica were tied in second place with $10,600. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “CALVIN & HOBBES”?
“Calvin and Hobbes” is a comic strip created by Bill Watterson. It was published by Universal Syndicate from 1985 to 1995. Calvin (named after Protestant reformer John Calvin) is a 6-year old boy; and Hobbes (named after philosopher Thomas Hobbes) is a stuffed tiger that is very real to Calvin. Watterson felt that readers saw Hobbes as Calvin’s imaginary friend. Watterson believed that wasn’t so as it seemed to him “that when you make up a friend for yourself, you would have somebody to agree with you, not to argue with you. So Hobbes is more real than I suspect any kid would dream up.”
Regardless of whether readers failed to grasp Watterson’s “two versions of reality” intent, they certainly were entertained by the mischievous child and philosophical tiger he created.
Jessica bet $8,200 and finished with $18,000.
Michael bet $3,400 and finished with $14,000.
Caleb bet $3,601 and won the game with $21,201 for a 4-day total of $71,200. Caleb finally geta an FJ! clue right but, alas, he wasn’t in a position to make a big bet.
Here are 2 triple stumpers from ON THE BOOKSHELF:
($600) Michelle McNamara’s “Ill Be Gone in the Dark” spread knowledge about this California murderer caught soon after the book came out
($1000) Like Paul McCartney’s, Arundhati Roy’s mother was named this, & Roy’s memoir of er is titled from a Paul lyric
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “LITERATURE”
In one story he is enslaved by the Old Man of the Sea & uses apes to pick fruit so he can afford his fare back to Baghdad show
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Good performance by the challengers, especially Jessica who started out in a deep hole. But very disappointed Michael missed that 3rd DD, the easiest of the three and the only one I knew for sure. It cost him an eventual win IMO. I said “Peanuts” for Final, so props to all 3 for nailing it. Knew McCartney’s mom’s name & the 4-letter noun/verb.
I was wondering if anyone would have figured out the southern England cathedral if they added “Oh-bo-de-o-do” to the clue. Probably not. I’m not even sure Ken (the oldest person on the stage) knows that song.