Warning: This page contains spoilers for the August 27, 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 26, 2025.
Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Presidential Elections) for Wednesday, August 27, 2025 (Season 41, Game 123):
The only 2 Democrats to be elected President between James Buchanan in 1856 & FDR in 1932
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Shane Whitlock, a radiologist originally from Benton, Arkansas
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Claire Sattler, a comedian & research scientist from New York, New York
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Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
The encore presentations continue tonight with Quarterfinal #8 of the 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament, featuring stars of the 1990s, 2010s, and 2020s. The 1990s here are represented by 1996 College champion Shane Whitlock, the 2010s by 2018 Teen Tournament winner Claire Sattler, and the 2020s by Ben Chan, who nearly won the 2024 Tournament of Champions.
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Correct response: Who are Grover Cleveland & Woodrow Wilson?
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Both correct responses to today’s Final Jeopardy clue won a pair of elections; Grover Cleveland won the 1884 & 1892 Electoral College, while Woodrow Wilson received the most number of electors in 1912 and 1916.
This is still one of those timeless Final Jeopardy clues that, in my opinion, would not have felt out of place had it been asked during the 1985 Tournament of Champions, let alone a major tournament in 2025.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
As if almost to be expected in a game involving Ben Chan, this game had some incredible high-level strategy in it. The Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy took quite a long time to come out, with Ben going for the rare $5 wager on DD2. When Shane found DD3, Shane bet to guarantee a lead going into Final Jeopardy if correct, but the margins ended up being so tight that Ben had just enough room to make some very strategic Final Jeopardy betting. (Shane’s score was just below four-fifths of Ben’s going into Final, which meant that if Ben thought Shane was going to make the game-theory optimal “first-order” bet, the defense against that brings Ben’s win chances from about 63% or so to about 81% or so.)
Ben did in fact make the small bet in defense—correctly surmising that Shane was going to make the proper small bet himself—but Final Jeopardy still broke in Shane’s direction, advancing the 1996 college champion to the semifinals.
Scores going into Final:
Ben $18,395
Shane $14,700
Claire $0
Tonight’s results:
Claire $0 (By rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy)
Shane $14,700 + $6,000 = $20,700 (Who are Wilson and Cleveland?) (Semi-Finalist)
Ben $18,395 – $3,694 = $14,701 (Who are B Harr Garfield and Wilson?)
Game Stats:
Shane $18,200 Coryat, 23 correct, 1 incorrect, 36.84% in first on buzzer (21/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Ben $19,400 Coryat, 23 correct, 5 incorrect, 43.86% in first on buzzer (25/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Claire $0 Coryat, 4 correct, 2 incorrect, 10.53% in first on buzzer (6/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $37,600
Lach Trash: $7,000 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,400
Lead Changes: 6
Times Tied: 2
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