Final Jeopardy: Monuments & Memorials (12-3-25)

The Final Jeopardy question (12/3/2025) in the category “Monuments & Memorials” was:

In NYC’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, an alcove with memorials to Hart Crane, Sylvia Plath & 54 others is the “American” this

2x champ Libby Jones, Libby Jones, a recruiter from Davenport, FL, has now won $70,802, after a successful $20,801 FJ! bet yesterday. In Game 3, she takes on: Sarah Murphy, a freelance transcript editor from Hamilton, Ontario; and Ron Lalonde, a medical physicist from Pittsburgh, PA, and the identical twin brother of 13x champ Ray Lalonde.

Round 1 Categories: Literature – Multi-Hyphens – Historic Americans – In the Christmas Song Lyrics – “G” Love – Special Sauce

Ron found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Literature” under the $1,000 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,800, $200 less than Libby’s lead. Ron bet it all and he was RIGHT.

“In this island we arrived, and here have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit than other princes can” is in this play show

WHAT IS “THE TEMPEST”?

Libby finished in the lead with $10,800. Ron was second with $5,200 and Sarah was last with $1,000. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: It’s Frieze-ing in Here – Streaming Comedy – African Geography – Double Meanings – Next in the Sequence – The Earth Rocks

Libby found the first Daily Double in “African Geography” under the $1,600 clue on the 2nd pick. She was in the lead with $12,800 now, $7,600 more than Ron in second place. Libby bet $4,000 and thought it might be Guinea. That was WRONG.

This small neighbor of Nigeria borders a bight (or bay) of the same name show

WHAT IS BENIN?

Sarah got the last Daily Double in “Double Meanings” under the $1,600 clue, with 10 clues left after it. In last place with $3,400, she had $7,800 less than Libby’s lead. Sarah bet $2,600 and gave “saddled” a try. That was WRONG.

Something fitted to a horse, or bring under control for use, like the sun’s energy show

WHAT IS HARNESS?

Libby finished in the lead with $15,200. Ron was next with $11,200. At negative $400, Sarah was out of the game. All clues were shown.

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Only ONE of the contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.

WHAT IS POETS CORNER?

The American Poets Corner is the United States’ equivalent of the renowned Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey. It was formally dedicated at St. John the Divine’s Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York on May 7, 1984, honoring the first 3 inductees: Washington Irving, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Speakers included Walter Cronkite, Gregory Peck and other notables. The Cathedral’s list of inductees includes the inscription for each inductee (a line from their works).

Unlike Westminster, poets and writers are not buried in the American Poets Corner. St. John the Divine pays the costs of installing inductees through donations and its own general funds. Westminster Abbey also gets donations nowadays, but in the past, the families of inductees, or the deceased’s estate, paid for the privilege of being buried in Westminster’s Poets Corner. English playwright Ben Jonson was famously buried standing upright because he could only afford a 2×2 space.

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Ron got it right. He bet $4,001 and finished with $15,201.

Libby just wrote down “poet.” That cost her $7,201 and left her with $7,999. That made Ron Lalonde the new Jeopardy! champ.

A triple stumper from each round:

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY ($800) Located near the equator on the Indian Ocean, this capital was the site of a U.S.-led military operation in 1992 & 1993

($2000) The indigenous Khoisan people called this flat-topped wonder the “mountain in the sea”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “FAMOUS NAMES”

Subject of a 2003 film, his 1947 obituary said he fathered at least 100 & died of a heart attack at 14, at a California ranch show

WHO IS SEABISCUIT?

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