Final Jeopardy: Sports History (11-24-25)
Nanny Jep 11.24.25
The Final Jeopardy question (11/24/2025) in the category “Sports History” was:
He wasn’t yet a U.S. citizen when he was named an All-American & won 2 Olympic gold medals for the country
9x champ Harrison Whitaker, a researcher orig. from Terre Haute, IN, is up to $268,600. A big win like last Friday’s would put him over the $300K mark in Game 10. Today’s challengers are: Shannon Lawinger, a publishing editor from West Newton, MA; and Michael Kavanagh, a school principal orig. from Woodhaven, NY.
Round 1 Categories: The Bishop – Mountains – Turtle Talk – Somebody’s Business – This Category Stinks – German Humor
Harrison found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Mountains” under the $600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He had $1,800 and was the only one with any money. Harrison bet it all and he was RIGHT.
Jenny Lake near Jackson Hole is presided over by 3 peaks named South, Middle & Grand this show
Harrison finished in the lead with $11,200. Michael was second with $3,800 and Shannon was last with $1,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: In the Year 2000… – Classic Literature Reimaginings – World Languages – Iconic Eyewear – Filipino-American Musicians – Change the Last Letter
Harrison found the first Daily Double in “Classic Literature Reimaginings” under the $1600 clue on the 2nd pick. He was in the lead with $12,400 now, $8,600 more than Michael in second place. Harrison bet $4,400 and thought it was Frankenstein. That was WRONG.
With this novel as a starting point, “The Madman’s Daughter” seeks the truth of her father’s experiments on animals show
6 clues later, Harrison landed on the last Daily Double in “World Languages”. In the lead with $10,800 now, he had $6,200 more than Michael in second place. Harrison bet $2,800 and guessed Albanian. That was WRONG.
Bosnia’s official languages are Bosnian, Serbian & this; it’s not Herzegovinian show
Harrison finished in the lead with a runaway $22,000. Michael was next with $8,600 and Shannon was in third place with $6,200. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS JIM THORPE?
Jim Thorpe was born in 1888, a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma Territory. Native Americans were not granted American citizenship until 1924. However, in 1912, that was not a bar to Thorpe participating in the Olympics. His outstanding performance at the Olympic trials got him a spot at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, where he won the decathlon & pentathlon. American Indian Magazine has a full account of why Thorpe was stripped of his medals a year later, when it came to light that he was paid $5 a game (about $170 today) while playing semi-pro baseball in 1909 and 1910, thus violating Olympic amateur rules. Thorpe passed away in 1953 but his medals were restored to his family in 1983, although still listed as a co-champion on the record. That was corrected in July 2022, when Thorpe was finally recognized as the sole winner.
Jim Thorpe has a bunch of acting credits on IMDB, albeit many are uncredited roles. He was a movie theatergoer in “King Kong” (1933), and he was a convict in “White Heat” (1949). His trivia page says he had a twin brother who died at age 9.
Shannon had no response. She lost her $3,000 bet and finished with $3,200.
Michael got it right. He added $4,000 to finish with $12,600.
Harrison came up with Olajuwon. He lost $1,000 but won the game with $21,000. Harrison’s 10-day total is $289,600.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
IN THE YEAR 2000… ($1200) If you were watching NBC in September & saw stock horses prancing to “The Man from Snowy River”, you were enjoying this
($2000) August 8th saw the recovery of this Confederate submarine that had sunk 136 years before
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “BRITISH CITIES”
Over the motto “Fortis est Veritas”, the coat of arms of this city features a beast of burden crossing over some water show
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3/3 on DD and got FJ. The California city was easy for me, as I recalled the two cities with Cal Poly campuses.
I wasn’t 100% certain, but I came up with Jim Thorpe pretty quickly. Knew his medals had been returned and restored. First DD pretty easy, others not so much. Challengers made decent recoveries, and I briefly thought Michael might be able to avoid the runaway. Too bad, because he nailed Final. Liked the Last Letter category, those were fun and not difficult.
Well, it was still another runaway for Harrison so he remains the Jeopardy champion. Actually, I was surprised that Harrison knew the Spanish word for bishop. Anyways, I didn’t do well in the game, and didn’t have a clue at all regarding FJ.
Harrison is now a superchampion becoming the 19th player in Jeopardy history to win 10 straight or more games.