Warning: This page contains spoilers for the August 25, 2025, game of Jeopardy! — please do not scroll down if you wish to avoid being spoiled. Please note that today’s game is an encore presentation of the game that originally aired on February 24, 2025.
Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category American Authors) for Monday, August 25, 2025 (Season 41, Game 121):
Enlisting in the Army in 1917, he was sent to Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, where he met the woman who would become his wife
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Luigi de Guzman, an attorney from Arlington, Virginia
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Amy Schneider, a writer from Oakland, California
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Avi Gupta, a law student originally from Portland, Oregon
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Correct response: Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
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After being spurned in New Jersey during World War I, F. Scott Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton and enlisted in the United States Army. This brought the eventual great author to Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, Alabama, where he met Zelda Sayre. Within two years, following the publication of This Side of Paradise, Scott and Zelda wed.
Despite, as you’ll see below, the Triple Stumper in-studio, I do still believe this was a good Final Jeopardy for this level. I personally enjoy the “ask about deeper cuts regarding topics the viewers already know” aspects of tournament Final Jeopardy clues.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, August 25, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Luigi de Guzman showed in this game why he might be one of the more underrated players in today’s game, successfully buzzing in first on 30 of the game’s 57 contested clues and holding a crush-sized lead going into Final Jeopardy. The only reason why this game wasn’t a runaway on the strength of Luigi’s play alone (he picked up 4 separate $2,000 clues in Double Jeopardy as well, proving that he has an incredibly deep knowledge base) was the fact that Amy and Avi were the two players to find the Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy. While anyone could have advanced to the semifinals with a correct response in Final Jeopardy, this one served up two Faulkners and a Hemingway—two writers associated with either war or the South—as Luigi eliminated Amy and Avi from the event.
In some excellent personal news for Amy, she also got to announce that her memoir has been adapted for younger readers, “Who Is Amy Schneider”?.
Scores going into Final:
Luigi $23,600
Amy $14,200
Avi $11,600
Tonight’s results:
Avi $11,600 – $7,233 = $4,367 (Who is Faulkner? Thank you!)
Amy $14,200 – $10,000 = $4,200 (Who is Faulkner? Hemingway?)
Luigi $23,600 – $4,801 = $18,799 (Who is Faulkner?) (Semi-Finalist)
Game Stats:
Luigi $23,000 Coryat, 27 correct, 4 incorrect, 52.63% in first on buzzer (30/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Avi $8,200 Coryat, 11 correct, 2 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 2/3 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Amy $10,400 Coryat, 17 correct, 2 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $41,600
Lach Trash: $5,400 (on 5 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $7,000
Lead Changes: 2
Times Tied: 0
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