Final Jeopardy Clues: 9-8 to 9-12-25

Here are the Final Jeopardy clues and correct responses for the week of September 8 through 12, 2025.

Click on the dates to see the recap for each game.

Mon, Sept 8 – Correct answers: 2
FAMOUS NAMES: On June 12, 1942 she wrote, “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone” show

Tue, Sept 9 – Correct answers: 1
CLASSIC ROCK & CLASSIC FILMS: In 1976 Groucho Marx sent this band a telegram congratulating them on their “sage choice” in album titles show

Wed, Sept 10 – Correct answers: 2
HISTORIC PHRASES: In 1914 Belgium’s queen gave this phrase a political meaning, saying one had descended between her & Germany show

Thu, Sept 11 – Correct answers: 0 (out of 2 left in FJ!)
TODAY SPELLING COUNTS: The winning word at the first Scripps National Spelling Bee was this, a plant & genus with sword-shaped leaves now on the trophy show

Fri, Sept 12 – Correct answers: 1
FAMOUS BUILDINGS: In 1588 a 10th chapel was added to this building to honor a Yurodivy, or “holy fool”, who was canonized that year show

In the first week of Season 42, we had 4 of the clues evenly divided between one or two correct responses. Only 2 players got a crack at Thursday’s clue and neither one of them got it. We’ll never know if the third player might have known it, but we still think it was the week’s hardest clue. Monday’s Famous Names clue was a bit easier than Wednesday’s Historic Phrases clue because of Winston Churchill!

This week’s winners:
Mon 9/08/25 $40,000 Jonathan Hugendubler
Tue 9/09/25 $22,009 Ian Morrison
Wed 9/10/25 $20,001 Paolo Pasco
Thu 9/11/25 $34,196 Paolo Pasco
Fri 9/12/25 $25,544 Paolo Pasco

Jonathan Hugendubler kicked the season off with a runaway and what turned out to be the week’s highest payday and brought Jonathan’s 2-day haul up to $63,601. Rock history helped Ian Morrison take over on Tuesday. Paolo Pasco sent Ian home on Wednesday and won every game for the rest of the week. Paolo had 2 runaways and finished with a 3-day total of $79,741.

Jeopardy! paid out $141,750 in winnings this week. Jonathan also got $3K of the $15K consolation prizes and Ian got $3K of it.

Here is BICYCLES ON THE BIG SCREEN from Monday’s game.