Final Jeopardy: On the Map (10-27-25)

The Final Jeopardy question (10/27/2025) in the category “On the Map” was:

An official American Viticultural Area spanning multiple states includes this Eastern island where you’ll find the town of Chilmark.

New champ Shaan Mishra, a mgmt. consultant from Carmel, IN, won $15,600 last Friday. In Game 2, he’s up against: Aaron Levine, a sports anchor from Seattle, WA; and Morgan Walker, a marketing director from Glenwood Springs, CO.

Round 1 Categories: Rainforest, Meet Desert – It’s Your Day! – Dueling Anne Hathaways – Pastimes – “C” Plus – Final Resting Places

Aaron found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Final Resting Places” under the $800 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. He was the only one on the board with $1,000. Aaron bet it all and he was RIGHT.

Levallois-Perret Cemetery is where this civil engineer known as the “Magician of Iron” came to rest after his 1923 death show

WHO IS EIFFEL?

Aaron finished in the lead with $7,200. Shaan was second with $4,000 and Morgan was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Rainforest, Meet Desert – It’s Your Day! – Dueling Anne Hathaways – Pastimes – “C” Plus – Final Resting Places

Aaron found the first Daily Double in “A Bit O’ Lit” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $9,200 now, $5,200 more than Shaan in second place. Aaron bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

A group of 10 young people head to a country villa to escape the plague afflicting Florence in this 14th century work show

WHAT IS “THE DECAMERON”?

Shaan got the last Daily Double in “Czech Yourself” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in second place with $6,000 now, $9,400 less than Aaron’s lead. Shaan bet $4,000 and ran out of time about the same time he said the Crimean War. That was WRONG anyway.

If you’re gonna defenestrate, do it in Prague, site of them in 1419, 1483 & 1618, the proximate cause of this conflict show

WHAT IS THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR?

Aaron finished in the lead with $14,600. Morgan was in second place with $10,200 and Shaan was last with $4,800. All clues were shown.

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TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS MARTHA’S VINEYARD?

In 1602, English explorer Bartholomew Goswold found an abundance of wild vines growing on an island he dubbed Martha’s Vineyard. In 1980, the American Viticultural Area (AVA) agency was formed to show where grapes were grown on wine bottles. In 1984, the Southeastern New England AVA designation included 13 counties in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Martha’s Vineyard was part of that, and the island also got it own designation the following year. Oddly enough, the island didn’t have a commercial vineyard until 1971 and it shut down in 2008.

Chilmark is famous for celebrities and mansions, among other things. When the Cape Cod Times covered the Obamas’ 2008 vacation there, Chilmark’s most famous fictional resident, “X-Files” agent Fox Mulder, was mentioned in the trivia at the end of the article. Mulder’s sister was abducted by aliens from their Chilmark home! It is also noted that John Belushi is buried in Chilmark.

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Shaan got it right. He bet $4,000 and finished with $8,800.

Morgan thought it was Long Island. That cost her $10,198 and left her with $2.00.

Aaron also got it right. He bet $6,000 and won the game with $20,600. Aaron Levine is the new Jeopardy! champ.

2 triple stumpers from THE LATE ’60s:

($1600) Dr. Denton Cooley made the first implant one of these meant to pump for a patient

($2000) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 created this commission; 4 years later, it ruled that Help Wanted ads specifying a gender are illegal

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “DRIVING THE USA”

It’s the state with the most miles of Interstate Highway, more than 3,200; one Interstate accounts for 1/4 of that mileage show

WHAT IS TEXAS?

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