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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Groundbreaking Drama) for Friday, October 3, 2025 (Season 42, Game 20):
Act I of this 1879 play opens in a room with “a small sofa”, “a small table” & “a cabinet with china and other small objects”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Ellie Baker, a lawyer originally from Louisville, Kentucky
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Roberto Carabeo, an environmental designer from New York, New York
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TJ Fisher, a marketing specialist from San Francisco, California (1-day total: $15,089)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
TJ Fisher dominated yesterday’s game on the signalling device, picking up more than half of the correct responses. Today, he goes for victory #2 against Louisville’s Ellie Baker and New York’s Roberto Carabeo.
One thing that minorly concerns me about TJ’s ability to go on a run of victories, though: on the last Daily Double, he claimed cowardice; there are times where aggressive Daily Double betting can be the difference between victory and defeat, and I am hoping that TJ will be able to overcome that.
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Correct response: What is A Doll’s House?
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Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is a play about Nora Helmer, who was feeling stifled in her marriage to Torvald, and by the end of the play, she chooses to leave him (Before you get mad about plot spoilers, this play is 146 years old.) It was considered groundbreaking as marriage was still very much considered holy during that period, and it was considered very scandalous to question the traditional marriage roles of men and women during that time. Ibsen even went as far to write an alternate ending for Germany where Nora chooses to stay. Such feminism was also very much taboo in Victorian England, and it also had to be adapted in order to be performed publicly in London.
Again, I think my own history in following the show helped me with this one; Ibsen’s oeuvre is the first place I go to when given that era in a clue.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Friday, October 3, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Monopoly Spaces; Double-Letter Endings; Motto Zone; We Love You, Judy; Brave; The Elements)
TJ continued to seemingly ring in at will; losing $500 on the Daily Double didn’t stop him from leading at the break. After 15 clues, the scores were TJ $3,300 Roberto $1,600 Ellie -$400.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
TJ 8 correct 3 incorrect
Roberto 2 correct 0 incorrect
Ellie 1 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Ellie wrote about wanting to be the host of Jeopardy! as her personal statement on her law school application.
Roberto once shared a dressing room with Bruce Springsteen and didn’t realize it.
TJ is defending the honor of his college a capella group.
TJ picked up 10 more correct to take a commanding lead into halftime.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
TJ 18 correct 4 incorrect
Roberto 2 correct 1 incorrect
Ellie 5 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
TJ $8,100
Roberto $1,200
Ellie $800
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Civil War Generals; TV Title Overlaps; Lake Living; Safe Words; Gods & Goddesses; Adjectives & Adverbs)
TJ had a bit of a lull early in Double Jeopardy, as Ellie—aided by DD2, took the lead for a handful of clues. However, TJ found DD3, picked up $4500 from it, and picked up another 10 correct responses after to take a runaway going into Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
TJ 31 correct 6 incorrect
Ellie 13 correct 2 incorrect
Roberto 6 correct 3 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 3 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
TJ $23,800
Ellie $10,000
Roberto $800
In a round played for just pride (as everyone bet $0), Roberto was the only player correct in Final. TJ goes into the weekend as champion and will play for win #3 on Monday!
Tonight’s results:
Roberto $800 + $0 = $800 (What The A Doll’s House)
Ellie $10,000 – $0 = $10,000 (What is The Glass Menagerie? Go cards!)
TJ $23,800 – $0 = $23,800 (What is Uncle Vanya?) (2-day total: $38,889)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) THE ELEMENTS $1000 (clue #9)
TJ 2800 -500 (Roberto 1000 Ellie -800)
2) GODS & GODDESSES $2000 (clue #3)
Ellie 3600 +2000 (TJ 8100 Roberto 0)
3) SAFE WORDS $1200 (clue #9, $23200 left on board)
TJ 8900 +4500 (Roberto 800 Ellie 9200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 88
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
TJ 3 4 5 3 4 5 4 5*
Roberto 3
Ellie
DJ! Round:
TJ 4 3*
Roberto 3
Ellie 3 4 5* 3 5 2
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
TJ 4.00
Ellie 3.67
Roberto 3.00
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 3 (0.15 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
TJ $21,000 Coryat, 31 correct, 6 incorrect, 59.65% in first on buzzer (34/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Ellie $10,000 Coryat, 13 correct, 2 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 4/5 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Roberto $800 Coryat, 6 correct, 3 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $31,800
Lach Trash: $10,600 (on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,600
Lead Changes: 2
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
TJ Fisher, career statistics:
63 correct, 11 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
57.89% in first on buzzer (66/114)
3/4 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $8,400)
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,900
Roberto Carabeo, career statistics:
7 correct, 3 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $800
Ellie Baker, career statistics:
13 correct, 3 incorrect
4/5 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,000
TJ Fisher, to win:
3 games: 60.596%
4: 36.719%
5: 22.250%
6: 13.483%
7: 8.170%
Avg. streak: 3.538 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- I believe this is the first regular-play occurrence of three players betting $0.
- No wagering suggestions are posted due to today’s game being a runaway for both first and second.
- Today’s J!6 clues can be found at the monthly archive.
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My head was stuck on Glass Menagerie even thought I knew this was before Tennessee Williams’ time.
I always feel better about a wrong answer if it’s shared by at least one contestant. Thank you, Ellie.
Ditto.
Ditto.
An easy FJ for theater geeks like me. If written today, it might be titled “A Doll’s Hands.” Seriously though, Lucas Hnath wrote a sequel about ten years ago called “A Doll’s House, Part 2.” It’s about Nora’s imagined return and is very funny in parts.
BTW, besides your noting this might be the 1st regular episode all 3 finalists bet 0 in FJ, wondering if TJ is first with > 30 correct responses his 1st two matches?
Even just taking a cursory look at my list of 5-time champions, it’s happened at least a few times before. And that doesn’t include anyone who didn’t get to 5.
Same as TJ, I also went with Chekhov, but with “The Cherry Orchard”.
If the year hadn’t been given, I would have gone with “The Glass Menagerie” as Ellie and others did. The year 1879, however, steered me away from “The Glass Menagerie” as there was an almost 60-year difference. That left me with Ibsen and “A Doll’s House.” My high school put on this play long before the play was a hundred years old so that helped, too.
I had no chance on this FJ, as the category is not in my forte.
Retro congrats to TJ on win #2 and we’ll see if he can get win #3 on Monday.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Upon seeing TJ’s wager, my knee-jerk response was “Andy got his triple zero.” I guess I’ve been coming here for a while, huh?