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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Children’s Books) for Tuesday, September 23, 2025 (Season 42, Game 12):
Realizing he couldn’t draw horses, the man behind this 1963 book drew the title characters purely from his imagination
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Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Justin Ames, an employment attorney from Jersey City, New Jersey
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Hester Bass, a writer from Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Steven Olson, a band director from Princeton, Illinois (2-day total: $46,406)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Steven Olson enters today’s game as a 2-day champion and winnings of $46,406. While he undoubtedly has qualified for Champions Wildcard at this point, I’m sure Steven would rather gain direct entry into the Tournament of Champions, and he’ll need at least one, if not two more victories at this point to get into the ToC. However, as always, there are two challengers trying to stop him; today’s debutants on the Alex Trebek Stage are Jersey City’s Justin Ames and Santa Fe’s Hester Bass.
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Correct response: What is Where The Wild Things Are?
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In interviews, Maurice Sendak, author of Where The Wild Things Are, claimed that his inability to draw horses was what changed “horses” to “things” in his Caldecott-winning children’s classic. Interestingly, though, Kate Capshaw and Cora Lynn Deibler of the University of Connecticut, in 2019, posited that it was more that Sendak likely just didn’t think horses were right for the story, pointing out that Sendak had illustrated Charlotte and The White Horse in 1955.
For me, this was a relatively straightforward clue, being able to associate the year 1963 with Sendak’s famous work.
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