Final Jeopardy: The 21st Century (9-24-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (9/24/2025) in the category “The 21st Century” was:
A 2011 email said, “On September 17, we want to see 20,000 people…set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and” these 3 words
3x champ Steven Olson, a band director from Princeton, IL, has won $57,089 so far. In Game 4, he takes on these 2 players: Natalie Shapero, an English professor from Los Angeles, CA; and Jaedon Jerue, a 7th grade math teacher from Danville, IL.
Round 1 Categories: A Phrase in History – Country Music – 4-letter Homophones – Street Smarts – Fellas in Novellas – Stews of the World
Steven found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Phrase in History” under the $600 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. With $800, he was the only one on the board. Steven bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
Conquistador Cortés told the Aztecs, “We Spaniards suffer from a disease of the heart that only” this substance “can cure” show
Steven finished in the lead with $6,800. Natalie was second with $5,600 and Jaedon was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Geographic Name Game – “V”ocabulary – Films Out of History – On the Silk Road – Marine Biology – Do You Like Photography?
Jaedon found the first Daily Double in “Geographic Name Game” under the $2,000 clue on the 4th pick. He was in last place with $2,200 now, $4,200 less than Steven’s lead. Jaedon made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Magellan named this southern archipelago after the fires he saw while passing through show
Steven got the last Daily Double in “”V”ocabulary” under the $2,000 clue on the 14th pick. In the lead with $14,000, he had $8,400 more than Natalie in second place. Steven bet $4,000 and threw out vascular as a last ditch guess. That was WRONG.
Used for heart conditions & high blood pressure, it’s any medication designed to widen the blood vessels show
Steven finished with a runaway $17,200. Natalie was next with $8,000 and Jaedon was in third place with $6,400. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS OCCUPY WALL STREET?
The Occupy Wall Street protest that began on 9/17/2011 was the brainchild of Kalle Lasn, co-founder of Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication. Lasn and other collaborators cooked up the idea of “A Million Man March on Wall Street” and by June of 2011, registered the OccupyWallStreet.org web address. Protesting wealth inequality and social injustices stemming therefrom were illuustrated by the catchphrase : “We are the 99%”.” This YouTube video explains who the 1% are.
The missing words from today’s clue are “flood into lower Manhattan,” obviously left out to not give too much away. However, as this 10/13/2011 CBS news report shows, the Occupy movement exploded across the USA in record time.
Jaedon wrote down “Love you, Mom.” He lost $1,601 and finished with $4,799.
Natalie got it right. She bet $6,000 and finished with $14,000.
Steven also got it right. He bet $93 and won the game with $17,293. Steven’s 4-day total is $74,382.
A triple stumper from each round:
A PHRASE IN HISTORY ($1000) Historian Estelle Paranque places 1547, when the boy Edward VI succeeded Henry VIII, as the year these 8 words caught on
DO YOU LIKE PHOTOGRAPHY? ($1200) Many professional photographers today use a digital SLR, short for this type of camera
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “MYTHOLOGY”
Chrysomallus was the name of the creature that was the source of this sought-after item, vellus aureum in Latin show
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The one country singer’s clue they didn’t get at least had the name of one of his songs. I wondered if it would have made a difference if the other clue mentioned that he wrote Me and Bobby McGee.
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose” What a great lyric!
Oh, you know it, my friend! I was almost yelling at the TV! Seriously, for all the other stuff the dude knows, that one seemed to be easy!
I was 3/3 on DD, but, could only get “Wall Street”. I was just searching my mind, and just could NOT come up with it!
Oh, and, two days late, but, Howard, my friend, La Shana Tova!
Thanks for the 2nd time. You actually wrote that last Saturday and said it was one day late, but it was actually a couple of days early. Truth be told, I don’t celebrate holidays. I tolerated Christmas and Easter because they were important to my wife.
Another runaway, but mainly because Steven missed that last DD (which I’m sure Dr Jason knew). I got only the middle one. Got Final after a few seconds, but wasn’t 100% certain.
They left some very gettable clues out there: the SLR camera; the legendary singer-composer-actor; the other singer-songwriter; the French port city; and the David Lean classic, which I finally saw 50+ years after its release.