Final Jeopardy: 1980s Television (11-25-25)

The Final Jeopardy question (11/25/2025) in the category “1980s Television” was:

This spin-off premiered 21 years after the show that inspired it but took place nearly a century later

10X champ Harrison Whitaker, a researcher orig. from Terre Haute, IN, is up to $289,600. In Game 11, his challengers are: Emma Passariello, a naval architecture student from Westbury, NY; and Lyman Howard, a financial advisor from Mill Valley, CA.

Round 1 Categories: The U.S. Between the World Wars – Odd Museums – Don’t You Hate It When…? – Shared Roots – Pour Decisions – Where Am “I”?

Harrison found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Shared Roots” under the $1,000 clue, with 8 clues still to go. He was in the lead with $4,000, $200 more than Emma in second place. Harrison bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.

The flesh-ripping humor of sarcasm shares a root with this container that comes from the Greek for “flesh eating” show

WHAT IS SARCOPHAGUS?

Harrison finished in the lead with $8,300. Emma was second with $3,600 and Lyman was last with $1,800. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Shakespeare, Who Said It? – Pew Pew Pew – 9-Letter Words – Italian Americans – Song Title Before & After – Animals of Zootopia

Harrison found the first Daily Double in “Pew Pew Pew” under the $1,200 clue on the 4th pick. He was in the lead with $11,100 now, $7,500 more than Emma in second place. Harrison bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

This main part of a church where the pews are located takes its name from the Latin for “ship”, which it’s kinda shaped like show

WHAT IS THE NAVE?

Harrison got the last Daily Double in “Shakespeare, Who Said It?” under the $2,000 clue on the 14th pick. In the lead with $22,900, he had $20,900 more than Emma in second place. Harrison bet $6,000 and guessed Henry V. That was WRONG.

“Caparison my horse. Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power: I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain” show

WHO IS RICHARD III?

Harrison finished in the lead with a runaway $19,700. Emma was next with $2,400 and Lyman was in third place with $600. All clues were shown.

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Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS “STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION”?

Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and Bones McCoy first went into “Space: the final frontier” in 1966, and the starship Enterprise boldly went “where no man has gone before” until 1969. The show, set in the 23rd century, continued to be popular in reruns and its devoted fans became known as Trekkies. In the ’80s, At the request of Paramount, series creator Gene Roddenberry developed a new series, which he set in the 24th century and called “Star Trek: The Next Generation”. Also see, Wikipedia’s list of Star Trek TV series.

Before they were beamed up: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley appeared in many ’60s Westerns. They all had “Gunsmoke” credits. Shatner was the plane passenger in that famous Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” (1963).

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Lyman got it right, even though he left out “The” before Next Generation. He bet $500 and finished with $1,100.

Emma had no response. She didn’t lose anything with a zero bet. Her score remained $2,400.

Harrison had no response either– just a note about preferring movies. He only lost $300, winning the game with $19,400. Harrison’s 11-day total is $309,000.

2 triple stumpers from ITALIAN AMERICANS:

($800) Louis “Dr. No” Ignarro won a Nobel for work on this medical molecule; it’s NO, not to be confused with N2O or “laughing gas”

($2000) She immigrated to the U.S. with her husband in the 1950s, & her cookbooks made her almost synonymous with Italian food

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “LITERARY GEOGRAPHY”

This state university’s Writers’ Workshop has had famous alumni who wrote about the state, like Jane Smiley & W.P. Kinsella show

WHAT IS IOWA?

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