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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Brand Names) for Tuesday, October 28, 2025 (Season 42, Game 37):
This brand got its name in 1940 after a distillery executive took friends on a hunting trip
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Alan Turner, a peanut butter artisan from Rohnert Park, California
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Cynthia Appiah, an Olympic bobsledder from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Aaron Levine, a sports anchor from Seattle, Washington (1-day total: $20,600)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Seattle sports anchor Aaron Levine is your new champion; today, he faces off against a peanut butter artisan in Alan Turner and a member of the Canadian Olympic Team in bobsledder Cynthia Appiah. After yesterday’s win, I am left feeling that Aaron would need either a very decisive win today or a pair of wins in order to see a return to the Alex Trebek Stage.
Certainly, Cynthia has talked about her love of Jeopardy! in interviews ever since joining the Canadian bobsledding program many years ago, and I am quite pleased to see her get the opportunity to compete on the Alex Trebek Stage. She’s also started a GoFundMe to crowdfund her expenses for this season in an attempt to get to the podium in 2026. (She finished 4th at the World Championships in 2025.)
When I started to see publicity regarding Cynthia’s appearance last week, I had to wonder: Is she the first Olympian to also compete as a civilian on Jeopardy!? (Certainly, past Celebrity Jeopardy! games have featured Charles Barkley, Brandi Chastain, Scott Hamilton, Dan Jansen, Carl Lewis, Rebecca Lobo, Martina Navratilova, Dot Richardson, and Summer Sanders, among potentially others, but I think everyone would consider competing as a civilian to be different here.) In light of the fraughtness that comes with declaring an instance to be “the first”, I both checked in with Jeopardy!‘s publicity department as well as multiple other historians within the fan community; none of us could find another instance of this happening. Thus, it is safe to say that Cynthia is currently believed to be the first Olympian to compete as a civilian on the show. (And, if we all managed to overlook someone, please let me know as soon as possible—and I sincerely apologize in advance for the oversight.)
That being said, there’s a “Let’s Speak Canadian” category: in my experience with these sorts of things, despite there being actual Canadians on the writing staff, this category is going to be full of hyper-regional expressions that will leave half the country flummoxed, will be no advantage to Cynthia whatsoever, and will likely once again turn into “the Americans clearly think we’re uncultured rubes up here”. To give an example, the J!6 clue refers to “hang[ing] a Larry”, ostensibly meaning to turn left, but I’ve certainly never seen that expression actually used in the wild. Categories such as this are patronizing, and the show would be a better overall product without them.
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Correct response: What is Wild Turkey?
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In 1940, Austin Nichols executive Thomas McCarthy brought some samples of bourbon on a wild turkey hunting trip with his friends; afterwards, those friends kept on asking for “that wild turkey bourbon”, and the name stuck.
To me, today’s Final Jeopardy was a “What alcoholic brand name makes the most sense here?”; it feels relatively straightforward, as long as you know the brand exists.
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I went the other direction. Was trying to think of some outdoor sports good brand.
The only brand I could think of was Jägermeister.
Not my first choice of drink, but I guessed it right off.
I’ve seen only deer and wild turkeys in the woods near me in PA, so I went with the bird!
Re: Contestant Alan Turner. I remembered his beautiful eyes from “The Chase”!
https://youtu.be/lyplY5IgAWk?si=iHJvRlMZB6Nz69Uf
All I could think of was Colt 45, but that came along a few decades later.