Final Jeopardy: Celebrities (12-2-25)

The Final Jeopardy question (12/2/2025) in the category “Celebrities” was:

An Ivy League grad, actress & author, she was Vogue’s youngest cover girl at 14 & was called the Face of the 1980s

New champ Libby Jones, a recruiter from Davenport, FL, won $24,801 yesterday, after sending 14x champ Harrison Whitaker home. In Game 2, her challengers are: Anne Martyn, a H.S. English teacher originally from Los Gatos, CA; and Eli Selzer, a post production manager from Los Angeles, CA.

Round 1 Categories: You Can Count on Geography – All Kinds of Sports – Charity Fundraisers – ____ of ____ – Pulp Fiction – Rick Astley Would Never…

Eli found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “____ of ____” under the $1,000 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $7,200 now, $6,000 more than Libby in second place. Eli bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.

3-word phrase for the legal responsibility for demonstrating guilt show

WHAT IS BURDEN OF PROOF?

Eli finished in the lead with $14,800. Libby was second with $3,000 and Anne was last with $600. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: African-American Firsts – Episode One TV – It’s Astronomical – Fireside Chats – UNESCO Cities of Literature – Anagrams of Each Other

Libby found the first Daily Double in “African-American Firsts” under the $2,000 clue on the 5th pick. She was in second place with $5,400 now, $10,000 less than Eli’s lead. Libby bet it all and she was RIGHT.

In 1955 she became the first black soloist to sing at the Metropolitan Opera, receiving an ovation before singing a note show

WHO IS MARIAN ANDERSON?

Libby got the last Daily Double in “It’s Astronomical” under the $1,200 clue, on the 12th pick. In the lead with $16,000, she had $4,200 more than Eli in second place. Libby bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

The Huygens Gap, the Encke Gap & the Keeler Gap lie between these show

WHAT ARE THE RINGS OF SATURN?

Libby finished in the lead with $25,200. Eli was next with $23,000 and Anne was in third place with $2,200. All clues were shown.

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ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS BROOKE SHIELDS?

Brooke Shields was 14 years old when she appeared on the cover of Vogue in February 1980. A year later, she became the “Face of the 1980s” when her face on TIME magazine’s cover was captioned “THe ’80s Look”. Some of her early film work was banned due to nudity and semi-nudity, including Pretty Baby (1978), The Blue Lagoon (1980), and Endless Love (1981). From 1983 to 1987, Brooke put her show business career on hold while she earned a degree in Romance Languages at Princeton. She has since appeared in many films, TV shows and theater productions. Brooke has authored several books, including “There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me” (2015).

A recent reference to Brooke’s racy underage ads was a triple stumper in the JEANS category on 10/30/2025. In this YouTube video, grown-up Brooke talks about how the “nothing comes between me and my Calvins” controversy affected her and her mother.

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Anne didn’t bet anything, sticking with the $2,200 she already had.

Eli bet $2,201 and finished with $25,201.

Libby bet $20,801 and won the game with $46,001. Libby’s 2-day total is $70,802. Awesome!

A triple stumper from each round:

PULP FICTION ($1000) Weird Tales supplemented stories by H.P. Lovecraft et al with classics like this poet’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”

UNESCO CITIES OF LITERATURE ($1600) The American university of this capital on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean contributes to its cultural life

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “2020s TELEVISION”

The title locale of this series is really the Belnord, dating to 1908 & located at 86th & Broadway on NYC’s Upper West Side show

WHAT IS “ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING”?

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