Last season — S41E207 — 6/24/25 — in the first round Jeopardy! offered the category “Chapter & Non-Verse.”
The $600 clew:
“The Black Bird”: “Yes, with ten thousand insurance, no children, and a wife who didn’t like him.”
“The Black Bird,” a chapter in The Maltese Falcon — ought to be a breeze for major Jeopardy! players.
But the pull-quote from that chapter seems to have gotten in their way — Sam Spade referring to his bumped-off partner Miles Archer. I think I would have gotten the answer just from the quote, but apparently the quote was so off from the usual selections it became a monkey-wrench gumming up the works.
No one rang in.
Ken Jennings (a note of disbelief in his voice?) said, “The black bird here is The Maltese Falcon.”
