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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Words From World War II) for Wednesday, October 1, 2025 (Season 42, Game 18):
As they lived below the surface of daily life, Jews who hid in Berlin in WWII were called human these, a German-derived word
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Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Lisa Mueller, an anthropologist from Rochester, Minnesota
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James Thajudeen, a librarian from San Jose, California
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Curtis Bogetti, a Ph.D. candidate from Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada (1-day total: $30,001)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Season 42 enters its second month today with a Canadian taking the space behind the champions’ lectern on Jeopardy; Kamloops, B.C.’s Curtis Bogetti picked up US$30,001 (somewhere just north of $40,000 Canadian) in victory yesterday. Today, he faces off against James Thajudeen and Lisa Mueller from Minnesota (a player not to be confused with the Lisa Mueller from Illinois who was on in 2018). If Lisa plays this game even half as well as Season 34’s Lisa did, I’ll be a happy Jeopardy! fan.
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Correct response: What are U-boats?
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Named after the German submarines during the war, the term “human U-boat” was used to describe Jews who figuratively hid like the submarines in Berlin during the war. Of the estimated 6,500 of them, about 1,700 did survive the war.
Walter Frankenstein, who lived to the age of 100 and passed away in April, had an obituary published in the New York Times detailing his experiences living in Berlin as a Jew during the war and trying to evade capture.
I have to say, though: this sort of Final Jeopardy is knowledge. It is fact—esteemed publications such as the New York Times have used the term. It is also inherently political; I would say there is very little coincidence that the show is bringing up such matters in 2025. History is often political, and trying to silence “political” discussion in 2025 seems foolhardy to me. If you want to tell people in the future that when fascism came calling, you stuck your fingers in your ears and said “no politics”, history will treat you like the enabler you truly are. (I know that certain people are going to be mad that I said this. My pre-emptive reply: The truth hurts.)
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Was not familiar with this term. I am a child (and grandchild) of Holocaust survivors, but they were from outside of Hamburg, not Berlin.