Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Names (9-5-25)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: The last game of Season 41 that originally aired on 7/25/2025. This game’s winner will kick off Season 42 this coming Monday (9/8/25).

The Final Jeopardy question in the category “20th Century Names” was:

According to one obituary, in 1935 he owned 13 magazines, 8 radio stations, 2 movie companies & $56 million in real estate

16x champ Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, NJ, has now won $455,000. Scott’s challengers in Game 17 are: Charlotte Cooper, a graphic designer from San Francisco, CA; and Jonathan Hugendubler, an adjunct professor & trivia host from Baltimore, MD.

Round 1 Categories: War Bonds – Stars – Televised Criminal Behavior – What’s That Spell? – Compound Words in Other Words – Freakier Fridays

Scott found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “What’s That Spell?” under the $800 clue just after the commercial break. He was in the lead with $5,600, $3,400 more than Charlotte in second place. Scott bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.

Spell 77 in one of these funerary texts written for a man named Ramose was for transforming him into a golden hawk show

WHAT IS “THE BOOK OF THE DEAD”?

Scott finished in the lead with $10,800. Charlotte was second with $3,000 and Jonathan was last with $800. All clues were shown.

Continue to the original recap with the rest of the game and more information about Final Jeopardy!

Triple stumpers:

STARS ($800) Called the Star of Isis in Ancient Egypt, its rise in summer forecasted the rise of the Nile River

($1000) Arcturus, the brightest star in Boötes, is this colorful type of star, the fate of some main sequence stars

STATELY BODIES OF WATER ($2000) Some call this bay the “Other Jersey Shore”

THE WAY WE WORE ($2000) Sounding like the name of Blackadder’s much put-upon retainer, it’s the term for a belt worn across the chest

FAMOUS ANIMATED VOICES ($2000) Pharrell Williams & documentarian Morgan Neville voiced themselves in this Lego-based animadoc

16-LETTER WORDS ($2000) Unable to be broken down by microorganisms–like styrofoam, which takes about 500 years to decompose