Final Jeopardy: Famous Declarations (11-26-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/26/2025) in the category “Famous Declarations” was:
After an escape under darkness, a U.S. General told an Adelaide newspaper these 3 famous words on March 20, 1942.
11x champ Harrison Whitaker, a researcher orig. from Terre Haute, IN, is up to $309,000 now. In Game 12, he takes on these 2 players: Krish Patel, an undergraduate student from Plano, TX; and Shannon Mastick, a patent attorney from Granger, IN.
Round 1 Categories: Your Sweet 16th (Century) – Let’s Talk Turkey – Weights & Measures – Quest: Love – Squirrel Friends – Words That Differ by One Letter
Krish found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Your Sweet 16th (Century)” under the $1,000 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. At $800, he was the only one with any moolah. Krish bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
“The true treasure of the Church is the most holy Gospel of the glory and grace of God” is No. 62 in this document posted in 1517 show
Harrison finished in the lead with $7,000. Krish was second with $3,600 and Shannon was last with $1,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: From Their New York Times Obituary – Out-of-This-World Literary Titles – Ends in “F” – Songs in the Movie – Free – Bird
Harrison found the first Daily Double in “Ends in “F”” under the $2,000 clue on the 17th pick. He was in the lead with $17,000 now, $13,400 more than Krish in second place. Harrison bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
German & French give us this 9-letter word for a recurrent musical theme associated with a specific character show
Harrison got the last Daily Double in “Out-of-This-World Literary Titles” under the $800 clue, with 9 clues left after it. In the lead with $20,800, he had $16,400 ore than Krish in second place. Harrison bet $6,000 and said Babel. That was WRONG.
A Samuel R. Delaney novel where an exploding star is mined for a vital element shares its name with a PBS program show
Harrison finished in the lead with $17,200. Krish was next with $5,600 and Shannon was in third place with $5,400. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “I SHALL RETURN”?
Ordered to evacuate the Philippines in March of 1942, General Douglas MacArthur was spirited out of Corregidor by speedboat and then flown to Australia. He first made his famous “I shall return” speech at the Terowie, South Australia train station on March 20, 1942 while en route to Adelaide.
The following day, the Adelaide Advertiser published his remarks under the heading “I have come through and I shall return.” Two years later, MacArthur returned to liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation.
Shannon wrote down “I got out.” She bet and lost her whole $5,400.
Krish had no response. He lost $5,201 and finished with $399.
Harrison got it right. He added $3,800 and won the game with $21,000. That gives Harrison a 12-day total of $330,000.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
FROM THEIR NEW YORK TIMES OBITUARY ($2000)
2025: Principal designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human
OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD LITERARY TITLES ($2000) The erotic short stories in “Delta of Venus” by this woman were written for a collector that Henry Miller knew
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “A BIT OF BRITAIN”
In disarray, it was sold at auction in 1915 to a local Wiltshire man, who would donate it to the British government 3 years later show
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I was 2/3 on DD and got FJ. I doubted myself for a moment, but, looked it up, and I was correct (I wasn’t sure if he said “I” or “We”. I said “I”).
I thought the middle kid was going to make a run of it. He reminded me of Neilish, in that they could be cousins. Fortunately, he didn’t have the same abrubtness. But, again, Harrison is getting me close to motion sickness.
I certainly know the famous quote, but didn’t associate it with Australia. That threw me off. Got the first DD. Challengers were OK but it’s hard to escape from a steamroller when he gets it into gear. Knew the designer of the heart, was stunned no one knew Cyrano’s true love, knew where Mountaineer football is played. That words category turned out to be much harder than it looked.
I didn’t think the word category was that hard. I only missed the $200 clue.
But I play word games a lot. I recently discovered French Wordle — Le Mot. It’s tres cool š. I use one of the words that was in today’s word category as a starter sometimes — the one about rooms.
Thanks for introducing me to Le Mot, VJ, it really is tres cool.
I’m glad you like it, Rhonda. One big difference from NYT Wordle is words can end in S.
Also, the answer is shown if you can’t figure it out and they’ll define it too. I learned how to say ‘valve’, for example, even though I’ll probably never have occasion to say it. I doubt if I’ve even said it 10 times in my whole life in English.š¤£
Thanks for telling me, VJ, I tried to see if there was such an option but wasn’t able to, I’ll have to give it another try.
Wow, it was still another runaway for Harrison, and he remained the Jeopardy champion. As for me, I performed well above average in today’s game with the FJ being a freebie.
I said āWe shall returnā for the finalā¦. Iām disappointed I got it wrong.