Warning: This page contains spoilers for the September 6-7, 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 July 17, 2024.
Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Literary Characters) for September 6-7, 2025 (Season 40, Game 223):
In a 1980 National Book Award Winner, we learn this title character gets his name from the rank of his late Dad–Technical Sergeant
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Zach Eckstein, a law clerk from New York, New York
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Nella Ballauer, a church secretary from Amarillo, Texas
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Jay Fisher, a government relations manager from Lisle, Illinois (1-day total: $1,799)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
It’s always interesting to see what happens to the guy who beats a long-running champion, and this is where we go to close out our weekend encore presentations looking back at Season 40, with Jay Fisher, who in last weekend’s encore presentation defeated 9-day champion Isaac Hirsch. In this one, he took on Zach Eckstein and Neila Ballauer in his first title defense.
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Correct response: Who is (T.S.) Garp?
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John Irving’s character T.S. Garp, the title character of The World According To Garp, was inspired by the fact that the author himself did not know who his biological father was at the time of the book’s writing. As his mother didn’t tell Irving more information about his father, the author chose to invent a father (and circumstances behind the conception that made the mother look particularly bad.) The book, after winning the National Book Award as a paperback, was adapted into a 1982 film starring Robin Williams as Garp.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the September 6-7, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Game Recap:
In a game that saw 21 Triple Stumpers overall (no, this isn’t a record…) Jay had zero unforced errors, 18 correct, and both Daily Doubles in Double Jeopardy as he cruised to a runaway, which insulated him well from the fact that Final Jeopardy ended up as a Triple Stumper.
Next week sees us jump forward into Season 41 with the game from March 31 and a pair of ToC-bound stars of last season.
Scores going into Final:
Jay $19,700
Nella $3,600
Zach $1,800
Tonight’s results:
Zach $1,800 – $1,800 = $0 (Who is Smith?)
Nella $3,600 – $3,599 = $1 (Who is ?)
Jay $19,700 – $5,300 = $14,400 (Who is ????) (2-day total: $16,199)
Game Stats:
Jay $16,000 Coryat, 18 correct, 0 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Nella $4,600 Coryat, 8 correct, 2 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Zach $1,800 Coryat, 12 correct, 4 incorrect, 28.07% in first on buzzer (16/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Combined Coryat Score: $22,400
Lach Trash: $25,400 (on 21 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $6,200
Lead Changes: 2
Times Tied: 3
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Looking forward to the start of Season 42 on Monday. But because Monday Night Football will also be on ABC this week, it should air at 9:30 p.m. here in the LA market and not our usual 7 p.m.
Also, the 3 tapings that I saw on August 8 will air September 22, 23, and 24. Fun times at that taping. 🙂
Hey Jeff!
I am so glad you had fun at the taping!
Rick
I also attended those tapings on August 8th. Yes, lots of fun times at those tapings.
Our local station featured US Navy Lt. Commander in dress whites as contestant two on Monday 9/8. This doesn’t match with what’s here! WTH?
You watched “Daytime Jeopardy”, a rerun from one year ago. Whether that was because your local station screwed up and played the wrong episode on Monday or if you watched Daytime instead of Regular, I do not know.