Warning: This page contains spoilers for the March 10, 2025, game of Jeopardy! — please do not scroll down if you wish to avoid being spoiled. Please note that the game airs as early as noon Eastern in some U.S. television markets.
Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category World Flags) for Monday, March 10, 2025 (Season 41, Game 131):
A dark blue square in the upper left corner of the flag of this country represents the continent of Africa
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Sabrina Blanks, a microcrochet artist from Rock Hill, South Carolina
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Harvey Silikovitz, an attorney & worldwide karaoke singer orignally from West Orange, New Jersey
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Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, Tennessee (8-day total: $92,599)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Laura Faddah is now an 8-day champion, yet her winnings are under $100,000. There was some discussion in the comments on Friday regarding “negative records”, and it is still editorial policy of The Jeopardy! Fan not to report on negative records in general—it definitely falls under “the fandom in general can no longer have nice things”. I saw this happen numerous times in 2022 where Megan Wachspress’s detractors would use her low winnings total a few years ago as the basis for harassment, and while I harbor no hope of personally being able to stop the harassment of contestants personally at this point, I do at least want to make the job of those harassers more difficult.
Hoping to stop Laura’s win streak at eight today are a pair of challengers with unique introductions: microcrochet artist Sabrina Blanks and worldwide karaoke singer Harvey Silikovitz. If you’ve ever read Claire McNear’s Answers in the Form of Questions, you would have read of Harvey’s long journey to the Alex Trebek Stage; Harvey was one of the contestant hopefuls featured in that book from four and a half years ago. Thus, there will likely be a lot of longtime diehard fans of the show who are hoping that Laura’s win streak ends today at the hands of Harvey. (Interestingly, Harvey isn’t the only one of this week’s contestants I recognized when I looked at this week’s list of players on the show’s website, but I’ll go into more detail later in the week when those players appear on the show.)
In other news in the Jeopardy!-verse, word came out this weekend about some of the changes being made to Series 2 of Jeopardy! in the UK—which might make it even more difficult for the episodes to ever find their way into J! Archive: firstly, the monetary values have changed. Instead of the bottom row clue being worth £150 or £300 as it was in Series 1, that bottom row is now worth £125 or £250. In exchange, though, seven categories will be on each of the three boards. (This now gives me a week to update my stats-tracking spreadsheet to handle the new UK format.) On the plus side, the extra 15 clues a game will likely lead to a faster-paced game and hopefully fewer criticisms of the show’s pacing.
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Correct response: What is Liberia?
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From the August 2024 Liberian declaration of Flag Day, “the Liberian Flag consists of six red stripes and five alternating white stripes, totaling eleven stripes, each representing one of the eleven signers of the Declaration of Independence of Liberia; the blue field, in the upper left corner of a rectangular form with a single white star in the center of the blue field, depicting Liberia as the then only independent state on the continent of Africa; the color red symbolizes the blood of those who died in the struggle for independence; the color white indicates the purity of mind of all our fore bearers toward each other; and the Blue for the dark continent of Africa as it was then depicted, the Proclamation further declared.”
I’m honestly not sure how this Final Jeopardy clue is going to play; the way in for someone who doesn’t know this fact would be to remember that the Liberian Flag—by virtue of the country’s history of being founded in the mid-19th century by freed people of color from the United States—is most likely to be similar to an American flag.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, March 10, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Parts Of The Book; Around The Globe; Like Pulling Teeth; Baseball Hall Of Fame Plaques; Go Green; 3 Consonants, 3 Vowels)
The opening segment belonged to Harvey; he picked up 10 correct, and the Daily Double, to take a big lead after 15 clues. At the break, the scores were Harvey $7,200 Laura $1,000 Sabrina $600.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Harvey 10 correct 0 incorrect
Laura 1 correct 0 incorrect
Sabrina 1 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Sabrina just became a master gardener.
Harvey was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2019.
Laura has lost her wedding ring multiple times.
Harvey picked up another 8 correct to extend his lead in the second half of the round.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Harvey 18 correct 1 incorrect
Laura 3 correct 0 incorrect
Sabrina 4 correct 0 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Harvey $11,200
Laura $1,800
Sabrina $1,600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Parts Of The Book; Australian History; A Note Of Command; Celebrity Mentors; Take Me To Church; Miscellan-“E”)
Harvey picked up 5 of the 6 $2,000 clues, got $6,000 from DD3, and got up to 35 correct responses by the end of the Double Jeopardy round.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Harvey 35 correct 1 incorrect
Laura 10 correct 1 incorrect
Sabrina 7 correct 1 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 30 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Harvey $36,800
Laura $11,200
Sabrina $4,400
Sabrina was the only player correct in Final as Harvey wins as a result of his runaway. He’ll be back tomorrow to defend!
Tonight’s results:
Sabrina $4,400 + $4,398 = $8,798 (What is Liberia?)
Laura $11,200 – $0 = $11,200 (What is Madagascar?)
Harvey $36,800 – $13,200 = $23,600 (What is Madagascar Belgium France) (1-day total: $23,600)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) AROUND THE GLOBE $600 (clue #2)
Harvey 800 +1000 (Laura 0 Sabrina 0)
2) TAKE ME TO CHURCH $1200 (clue #12)
Laura 4600 +3000 (Harvey 16400 Sabrina 3200)
3) PARTS OF THE BOOK $800 (clue #18, $12800 left on board)
Harvey 23200 +6000 (Laura 9200 Sabrina 3200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 191
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Laura 4
Harvey 3*
Sabrina
DJ! Round:
Laura 3 3 4 3* 4† 5†
Harvey 3 4 3 4 4 5 5 2 2*
Sabrina 1 2 1
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Harvey 3.50
Laura 3.71
Sabrina 1.33
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 30 (0.23 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Harvey $31,200 Coryat, 35 correct, 1 incorrect, 57.89% in first on buzzer (33/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Laura $9,400 Coryat, 10 correct, 1 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Sabrina $4,400 Coryat, 7 correct, 1 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $45,000
Lach Trash: $7,200 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $1,800
Lead Changes: 0
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
Laura Faddah, career statistics:
148 correct, 30 incorrect
13/13 on rebound attempts (on 41 rebound opportunities)
29.60% in first on buzzer (148/500)
5/8 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,400)
3/9 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,400
Harvey Silikovitz, career statistics:
35 correct, 2 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
57.89% in first on buzzer (33/57)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $31,200
Sabrina Blanks, career statistics:
8 correct, 1 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $4,400
Harvey Silikovitz, to win:
2 games: 73.297%
3: 53.725%
4: 39.378%
5: 28.863%
6: 21.156%
Avg. streak: 3.745 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Harvey’s Coryat score is believed to be the 7th-best debut Coryat score of all time in regular play. The most recent player to debut with a Coryat score greater than $30,000 was Chris Fleitas ($33,000) on September 29, 2011.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
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I am a big Harvey fan but was astounded (and happy) his pronunciation of the Feast of the Annunciation was acceptable. I have long felt there is a need to accept pronunciations that are not standard due to different cultural, colloquial or regional backgrounds and as in the case of Harvey speech conditions. There was an unfortunate situation with Wheel of Fortune recently with the pronunciation of Safari. When it is perfectly clear what answer the contestant is giving I definitely think that rule should be changed to accept any answer that is obviously correct.
Mary:
Alex always made what I thought was an excellent point as to why the judging does appear to be as strict as it is: When Jeopardy! (and even to this extent, Wheel) rules leniently to advantage one contestant, it often equally disadvantages that player’s opponents. Therefore, that issue of needing to remain fair to all players, and the zero-sum nature of judging, means that the two shows have struck the balance that it has, and why I don’t think either Jeopardy! or Wheel need to change a thing—despite what the viewers at home may think, especially considering that changes often introduce unintended consequences that fans don’t like. (Such as the realization that some of their favorite players won’t advance to the postseason as a direct result of their interminable lobbying for that postseason to be shorter.)