Final Jeopardy: American Authors (8-25-25)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: The 6th quarterfinal in the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament that originally aired on 2/24/2025.

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

Enlisting in the Army in 1917, he was sent to Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, where he met the woman who became his wife

2019 Teen Tournament winner Avi Gupta, a law student orig. from Portland, OR; 2022 ToC champ Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, CA; and 5x champ Luigi de Guzman, an attorney from Arlington, VA.

Round 1 Categories: Some Art, Some Science – Quotable 21st Century Films – Acronyms & Abbreviations – I Can Buy Myself Flour – Sport a Phrase – Severance

Luigi found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Quotable 21st Century Films” under the $600 clue on the 20th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $6,800, $3,200 more than Amy in second place. Luigi bet $1,200 and he was RIGHT.

Alan Arkin: “If I’m doing a fake movie, it’s gonna be a fake hit” show

WHAT IS “ARGO”?

Luigi finished in the lead with $9,600. Amy was second with $5,200 and Avi was last with $2,600. All clues were shown.

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Here are the triple stumpers:

I CAN BUY MYSELF FLOUR ($200) Maybe the Bob’s Red Mill organic type of this stuff, made from the ground white meat of a hard-shelled fruit

SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE ($1200) Moku o Keawe is the traditional equivalent of this geographic nickname that’s 2 English words

CELEBRITIES ($800) His memoir “From Under the Truck” chronicles being raised in Paso Robles & his roles in “Goonies” & “No Country for Old Men”

($1200) In 2024 she won the Jackie Joyner Kersey Award for top U.S. female track & field athlete

($2000) This “SNL” actor found viral success as a doctor/model, wedding crasher, off-key singer & cuckolder Domingo