Final Jeopardy: Contemporary Authors (8-12-25)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: Final #3 of the 2025 Tournament of Champions that originally aired on 2/11/2025

The Final Jeopardy question in the category “Contemporary Authors” was:

Asked by a student about the Loch Ness monster she said a time portal below could allow a prehistoric creature to pass through

Today is the 3rd final match in the 2025 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions. The finalists are: Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana; 9x champ Isaac Hirsch, a customer support team lead from Burbank, CA; and Neilesh Vinjamuri, a software engineer from Lionville, PA.

SCORES SO FAR: Adriana 1 Isaac 0 Neilesh 1

Round 1 Categories: 20th Century Notables – Let Me Tell You a Story – Utensils – Hodgepodge – Competition Shows – Fill Out the “NDA”

Adriana found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “20th Century Notables” under the $600 clue on the first pick of the round. No one had a cent. She bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.

Gloria Steinem said this 1972 Democratic candidate for Pres. “first took the ‘White-Male-Only’ sign off the White House” show

WHO IS SHIRLEY CHISHOLM?

Adriana finished in the lead with $7,200. Neilesh was second with $4,800 and Isaac was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.

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There were 5 triple stumpers:

20th CENTURY NOTABLES ($1000) In 1993 this South African was president of the African National Congress Women’s League

HODGEPODGE ($800) This term for an animal that mostly eats meats is also the name of a diet where humans mostly eat meat & animal products & no carbs

THEM’S FIGHTING WORDS ($1600) Throwing hands & then eating together? That’s not friendly fire but the alliterative friendly this slang word for a fight

($2000) A snack and a body part are in this idiom about someone always ready to take offense

BRIDGES ($2000) Now a World Heritage Site, the perhaps unimaginatively named Ironbridge spans this river, Britain’s longest