Warning: This page contains spoilers for the August 29, 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 28, 2025.
Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Famous Names) for Friday, August 29, 2025 (Season 41, Game 125):
As a young reporter in Appleton, Wisconsin, Edna Ferber interviewed this hometown celebrity originally from Hungary
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Shane Whitlock, a radiologist originally from Benton, Arkansas
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Jaskaran Singh, a consultant from Plano, Texas
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Roger Craig, an applied scientist from Arlington, Virginia
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
As we get closer to the end of Season 41’s encore presentations and closer to the start of Season 42 on September 8, today’s encore presentation is semifinal #1 of the 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament between Roger Craig, Jaskaran Singh, and Shane Whitlock.
In other Jeopardy! news, yesterday saw the official announcement that next-day streaming of Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune will be coming to Bell Media’s Crave TV service. While I’m currently slightly disappointed at the fact that the United States gets five full seasons of library episodes compared to just 100 episodes in Canada, I might change my tune here if the Canadian library episodes are “100 Episodes Not In J! Archive”.
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Correct response: Who is Harry Houdini?
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In an interview reprinted at The Houdini File, Pulitzer-winning writer Edna Ferber interviewed one of her Appleton contemporaries in 1906 in front of the offices of the Appleton Crescent. That contemporary was world-renowned escape artist and magician Harry Houdini. How did they both end up in small-town Wisconsin? Houdini’s father was a rabbi and led the local congregation, while Ferber’s family moved there after experiencing anti-Semitism in Iowa.
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Game Recap:
It seems to be, more often than not, that Roger Craig wins a game of Jeopardy! after netting the most overall of the three players on the Daily Doubles. However, it seems to be much rarer that this happens when Roger goes 0-for-0 on Daily Doubles. Unfortunately, both Jaskaran and Shane got Daily Doubles incorrect in Double Jeopardy (Jaskaran losing $4,000 and Shane $5,800), leading to Roger holding a $1,400 lead over Jaskaran heading into Final Jeopardy.
When all three players got Final Jeopardy correct, that sent Roger through to the finals.
Scores going into Final:
Roger $14,400
Jaskaran $12,600
Shane $3,200
Tonight’s results:
Shane $3,200 + $3,200 = $6,400 (Who is Houdini)
Jaskaran $12,600 + $12,598 = $25,198 (Who is Houdini)
Roger $14,400 + $10,801 = $25,201 (Who is Houdini) (Finalist)
Game Stats:
Roger $14,400 Coryat, 17 correct, 3 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Jaskaran $15,400 Coryat, 17 correct, 3 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Shane $9,000 Coryat, 14 correct, 3 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $38,800
Lach Trash: $7,200 (on 10 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,000
Lead Changes: 5
Times Tied: 2
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Why do they jump around Why not start on top and go down on each line?
Because people figured out that the best way to increase your chances of victory is to find the Daily Doubles before your opponents do. So the contestants at this level are trying to pick the clues they think are most likely to have the Daily Double behind it. (Which, of course, explains why they aren’t going top-to-bottom, because it leaves too much to randomness.)