Final Jeopardy: Movie Characters (11-19-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/19/2025) in the category “Movie Characters” was:
The novelization of a 1977 movie awarded this character a medal at the end, righting a perceived wrong
6x champ Harrison Whitaker, a researcher orig. from Terre Haute, IN, has won $182,600 so far. In Game 7, he takes on: Josh Chen, a stay-at-home dog dad from Arlington, VA; and Matylda Urbaniak, a law student from Queens, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Greater L.A.: A Cultural Melting Pot – Potpourri – That’s Gotta Be a Myth – The County Line – I Have Friends Everywhere – &/Or
Harrison found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “&/Or” under the $800 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,200, $800 more than Josh in second place. Harrison bet $1,000 and tried forestall. That was WRONG.
Quell & suppress, or a racquet sport show
Harrison finished in the lead with $5,200. Josh was second with $4,800 and Matylda was last with $3,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Titles in History – 20th Century Novels That Got Filmed – “-gram” Pics – Organizations – Television – Law School With John Grisham
Josh found the first Daily Double in “Titles in History” under the $800 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in second place with $4,400 now, $8,400 less than Harrison’s lead. Josh bet it all and he was RIGHT.
Though he runs Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Bin Salman still has this 2-word royal title as on tape day his father continues to live & reign show
Harrison got the last Daily Double in “20th Century Novels that Got Filmed” under the $800 clue on the 16th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $16,400 now, $6,000 more than Josh in second place. Harrison bet $5,400 and he was RIGHT.
In a 1972 novel Joanna tries to shake up the wives of this suburb but ends up as glassy-eyed as the rest show
Harrison finished in the lead with a runaway $26,600. Josh was in second place with $12,800 and Matylda was last with $5,200. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS CHEWBACCA?
Even before the 1977 movie “Star Wars” made its debut, Ballantine published “Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker”, written by Alan Dean Foster. “Star Wars” scriptwriter George Lucas hired Foster to write a tie-in novelization. Originally, it was supposed to be movie first, then novel, but the film’s premiere was pushed back and Foster had to write the “Star Wars” novel from the script and Chewbacca got a medal in the script he was working from. The novel was published in November 1976. Then, the script was changed so that only Luke Skywalker and Hans Solo got medals in the film. Soon after the film’s 1977 release, Lucas claimed that medals don’t mean a lot to Wookies. Then, Chewbacca got a medal in a 1980 comic called “The Day After the Death Star”.
So Chewbacca’s medal history went medal, no medal, medal. At least that’s what I got out of The Bewildering Saga of Chewbacca’s Missing Medal in Star Wars
Matylda thought it was Skywalker. She bet zero so her score remained $5,200.
Josh had no response, just a shoutout to his fam. He only lost $5.00 and finished with $12,795.
Harrison actually started out on the right track but switched to Princess Leia. He lost $999 and won the game with the remaining $25,601. His 7-day total is $208,201.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE COUNTY LINE ($1000) “Coward of the County” was a No. 3 hit for this country star and roast chicken magnate
20th CENTURY NOVELS THAT GOT FILMED ($2000) Springtime & Italy change the outlook of 4 women in a World War I-weary world in this novel by Elizabeth von Arnim
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “MUSICIANS”
An Esquire profile said, “The most distinguishing thing” about the face of this singer “are his eyes, clear blue & alert” show
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Caught only the last few minutes. My utter lack of “Star Wars” trivia knowledge did me in. I feebly said “the guy from Apocalypse now” (Kurtz, whose name I momentarily forgot). Knew the last DD. Got half of the middle one and should have nailed the first–I took a class in it in college.
The country star/chicken man was ez. One of his restaurants opened here and disappeared quickly. Knew the CEF stumper; we collected for it as kids on Halloween. Thought someone might know the hunger organization. Well-acquainted with the Jewish women’s org but that was a toughie. I liked the Potpourri category, if only because I knew all of them.
It was another fantastic game, and Harrison remained as the Jeopardy champion. Well, I performed slightly below average in the game, and flubbed the FJ (as I really couldn’t come up with anything based on the clues).
Did anyone else notice or think that Harrison’s accent went away today? Sounded like he had a typical American accent today.
I wished they had Flaming Ember’s Westbound #9 song in the County Line category (“Sittin’ on the bank of Holy Creek down by the county line”) but it was just as well. If they didn’t know the Gambler they sure as hell wouldn’t have known that one!
Now that you mentioned it VJ, I could hardly believe that none of the contestants recognized the Gambler.
Harrison is the first player this season to cross the 200,000 in winnings and he is now the biggest money winner of Season 42.