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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Novels) for Wednesday, September 17, 2025 (Season 42, Game 8):
In April 2025 the Empire State Building was lit up in green to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this novel’s publication
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Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Laura Mixter, a director of impact management & measurement from Chicago, Illinois
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Max Miller, a college counselor from Astoria, New York
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Paolo Pasco, a puzzle writer originally from San Diego, California (5-day total: $134,516)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
How long will his run keep going? That’s the question on everybody’s mind after Paolo Pasco won his fifth game yesterday. Today, he faces off against Max Miller of Astoria, New York and Laura Mixter of Chicago in an attempt to win game number 6. Certainly, the Unified Prediction Model says right now that Paolo has about a two-thirds chance to win any single game, which means that at this point, Paolo, on average, will win somewhere around seven games in total.
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Correct response: What is The Great Gatsby?
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On Friday, April 11, 2025, the Empire State Building was lit up in green in celebration of The Great Gatsby‘s 100th anniversary. (In fact, you can see why the building is lit up in specific colors on its website.) The color green is one of the most-used symbolic colors in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work, including a green light often watched by Gatsby across the water.
Jeopardy! often likes to go to the F. Scott Fitzgerald/Great Gatsby well, so it’s probably a good idea to learn a few things about both before getting on the show. Knowing its publication year (1925) certainly would go a long way to picking up a correct response on this Final Jeopardy clue.
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Total coincidence that this airs 1 day after Robert Redford’s passing (the game was recorded in early August). My first experience to The Great Gatsby was as a kid in the 1974 movie.
My mind went to Oz. Emerald city, etc. Googled it…Wonderful Wizard of Oz published in 1900.
All I could think of tied in with the color green was How The Grinch Stole Christmas, which isn’t 100 years old and would probably not be considered a novel. Major oops.