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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Geographic Naming) for Monday, November 10, 2025 (Season 42, Game 46):
In 1859 the name of this political unit was chosen by Victoria, who liked herself better than James Cook, another possible honoree
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Morgan Connolly, a biochemist originally from Long Island, New York
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Matt Eisenberg, a band director from Ypsilanti, Michigan
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Allegra Kuney, a Ph.D. candidate from New Brunswick, New Jersey (3-day total: $85,001)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Today sees us enter the final week of qualifying for the 2026 Tournament of Champions; Allegra Kuney enters today’s game as a 3-day champion. If she wins out this week, she will get a spot in the 2027 Tournament of Champions instead of 2026; meanwhile, Aaron Levine enters this week very squarely on the Tournament of Champions bubble as challengers Matt Eisenberg and Morgan Connolly look to end Allegra’s run as champion.
As we’re a week away from the announcement of the postseason field for this season, I feel obligated to point out that there are very likely more deserving people for postseason play than there are spots in the postseason; thus, there are going to be some fans who are disappointed next Monday. (If only those fans hadn’t spent two years kvetching about postseason length…)
There are a couple of things that happened this weekend that I’d like to touch on in my preview this morning. I brought this up in my weekend recap, but the dispute between Sony Pictures Television and CBS Media Ventures was settled over the weekend. This will have a very small impact on how anyone watches the show until the end of the 2027-28 season; however, the fact that Sony is taking over distribution when it had already been hoping for same-day streaming to begin (instead of next-day) in the fall of 2028 fits in quite well with their plans. I do expect there to be a major shift in airtimes for both Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune, though, in the fall of 2028, potentially closer to prime time.
If you were paying attention to Ken Jennings’s Instragram over the weekend, you saw a reference to “a 1980s-era numbering inconsistency” resulting in a discrepancy between episode numbers and the episode count. While I’ve touched on this before on the site, it’s always a fun story to tell as to why this happened. And, honestly, it’s because it took the show a few months to find its footing in 1984. KCBS was the original Jeopardy! affiliate in Los Angeles; unfortunately, they hardly gave the show a chance, choosing to cancel the show after a scant five weeks (25 episodes). However, the show was becoming extremely popular in many Midwestern markets (especially Cleveland and Detroit) and program directors in Los Angeles (and even New York, where the show was airing overnight) took notice. Independent station KCOP picked up the show in Los Angeles starting on January 7, 1985 (Episode #86) and ended up carrying the show over the next few years. However, to make up for the fact that 60 shows hadn’t aired in Los Angeles, the reruns that summer were given fresh episode numbers (ergo, Episode #26 through #85 were also Episodes #196 through #255, while for continuity’s sake, #191 through #195 were rerun as Episodes #256 through #260). Furthermore, episode #4088 was a clip show with no game played, taped at Radio City Music Hall to celebrate episode #4000, that originally aired on May 15, 2002. That explains the 66-episode discrepancy between “today we taped our 9412th show, which was officially show #9478” in Ken’s Instagram post. Interestingly, if you include all primetime episodes and count a game as “a nationally aired full collection of clues that includes a Final Jeopardy Round” and note that episodes have contained between 0 and 2 games, tomorrow would be the 9500th game of Jeopardy! to air (a number that also includes the 3 Champions Wildcard play-in games that aired exclusively on TuneIn Radio in 2024).
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Correct response: What is Queensland?
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In the 1850s, England was looking to partition its New South Wales colony on the Australian continent further; while some advocated naming the new colony after James Cook, who was the first Englishman to sight the continent, Queen Victoria, when granting the letters patent for the colony in 1859, chose the name Queensland.
I think the best way in here would be to ask yourself, “Why did the show not say Queen Victoria and just say Victoria?” We’ll see if anyone manages to get to that logic today—assuming they get to Australia and don’t guess somewhere in Canada.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, November 10, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: 3 Letters, 2 Meanings; Putting In Your 2 Cents, Internationally; Noshing At The Team’s Stadium; Potpourri; Skin Conditions; President Cleveland With Your Old Pal Grover)
Our players split the clues three ways; while Allegra found the Daily Double, Matt led after 15. At the opening break, the scores were Matt $3,600 Allegra $2,600 Morgan $1,800.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Matt 5 correct 0 incorrect
Allegra 5 correct 1 incorrect
Morgan 5 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Morgan shares a birthday with Alex Trebek.
Matt went to the Cubs game that Ken led “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” at.
Allegra studies tarot card readers and psychics for her Ph.D.
Both challengers had a good segment; Matt led after 30, with Morgan in a close second.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Matt 10 correct 1 incorrect
Morgan 9 correct 1 incorrect
Allegra 8 correct 3 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Matt $6,000
Morgan $4,800
Allegra $2,000
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: A World Of History; Poets & Poetry; Criminal Behavior; The James Gang; The “Pit” Crew; Multi-Hyphenates)
Matt had a golden opportunity to put the game just about away on DD2; however, he only bet $3,000, and he then selected the only clue on the board guaranteed not to have the last Daily Double. This allowed Allegra to gain control of the board, where she found DD3 to take a lead she would keep for the remainder of the round.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Allegra 19 correct 3 incorrect
Matt 18 correct 2 incorrect
Morgan 15 correct 2 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 6 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Allegra $19,200
Matt $15,400
Morgan $10,800
This Final Jeopardy turned out to be a Triple Stumper, which should have meant “advantage Morgan” or even “advantage Matt”. But they both bet too much—and that makes Allegra a 4-time champion! She’ll go for #5 tomorrow.
Tonight’s results:
Morgan $10,800 – $8,500 = $2,300 (What is the Virgin Islands)
Matt $15,400 – $10,000 = $5,400 (What is an honor to p)
Allegra $19,200 – $11,601 = $7,599 (What are provinces?) (4-day total: $92,600)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) PUTTING IN YOUR 2 CENTS, INTERNATIONALLY $600 (clue #1)
Allegra 0 +1000 (Matt 0 Morgan 0)
2) CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR $2000 (clue #7)
Matt 9600 +3000 (Allegra 4800 Morgan 6800)
3) POETS & POETRY $1200 (clue #13, $18400 left on board)
Allegra 6400 +6000 (Matt 11800 Morgan 7600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 225
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Allegra 3*
Matt
Morgan
DJ! Round:
Allegra 3 5 4 2 4 5 3*
Matt 4 3 5* 1†
Morgan 2 3
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Allegra 3.63
Matt 3.25
Morgan 2.50
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 6 (0.13 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Allegra $14,000 Coryat, 19 correct, 3 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer (19/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Matt $14,400 Coryat, 18 correct, 2 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Morgan $10,800 Coryat, 15 correct, 2 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $39,200
Lach Trash: $10,000 (on 8 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $4,800
Lead Changes: 2
Times Tied: 1
Player Statistics:
Allegra Kuney, career statistics:
101 correct, 15 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
44.30% in first on buzzer (101/228)
6/8 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $11,100)
3/4 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $19,350
Matt Eisenberg, career statistics:
18 correct, 3 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,400
Morgan Connolly, career statistics:
15 correct, 3 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,800
Allegra Kuney, to win:
5 games: 56.604%
6: 32.040%
7: 18.136%
8: 10.266%
9: 5.811%
Avg. streak: 5.304 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Matt’s stats at this point—per the Unified Prediction Model, he’s currently in the top 15 in both Adjusted Performance Mean and Excitement Factor out of all nonwinning challengers for this upcoming postseason—means he’s certainly got a good chance of being invited for Second Chance, but certainly not a guaranteed chance. I hope his strategy was better if he did get a return trip to the Alex Trebek Stage.
- Today’s J!6 clues can be found at the monthly archive.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Allegra $19,200 Matt $15,400 Morgan $10,800)
Allegra: Standard cover bet over Matt is $11,601. (Actual bet: $11,601)
Matt: Standard cover bet over Morgan is $6,201. You shouldn’t bet any more than this, because you can still win a Triple Stumper if Morgan overbets. (Actual bet: $10,000)
Morgan: Your best chance of winning here is a Triple Stumper. Bet no more than $1,600. (Actual bet: $8,500)
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Am I the only one who feels the phrasing “political unit” is kinda weird?
I believe it’s because Canada has provinces and Australia has states.
So the clue keeps it a little vague.
Definitely not the only one! It tripped me up. I mean I know political unit makes reference to a political map, which show state/country/province borders, but there’s gotta be a better way to say that other than political unit.
There isn’t a better term.
Simple as that.
People have been discussing it all day, claiming it’s misleading, but nobody has come up with anything better that doesn’t make it a dead giveaway.
More than one thing can be true at the same time — potentially misleading, but prevents a dead giveaway.
Google’s AI gives as two of many examples of political units BOTH the 50 US states AND the three branches of our federal government. However, the category of “Geographic Naming” should have pointed one to something like the first example, not the second.
I went with Canada. Victoria, BC.
Yep, I thought the same thing, MarkO!
I live in Eugene Oregon, so that might’ve biased me, but I wasn’t sure Cook had ever explored the coast of British Columbia but then I looked it up a few seconds ago and yeah, he did!! I think that it was too early for Victoria to be established. That was what was confusing me to start with, but I don’t think it’s a bad answer.
“Political unit” threw me off also.
Ditto. Even with the category being “Geographic Naming” (which turned out to be geography named for a person, but could have been something named for something else geographic), I took “political unit” to be a politics-related subset of something like House of Commons or House of Lords or Order of the Garter. Obviously none of these fit the category, but I assumed there were a lot of other subsets of British politics of which I am unfamiliar that could be named for a geographic area, which my ignorance would also preclude me of knowing what it might have to do with Victoria or Cook.
I would have answered “An Australian state”.
The inclusion of Cook in the clue put me in mind of Australia rather than Canada. I, then, tried to think of somewhere in Australia that might refer to Queen Victoria without being too in your face about it such as the state of Victoria. That’s when it hit me that Queensland might refer to Queen Victoria without being so obvious about so I went with that. Turned out to be the right way to go. 🙂
That was precisely how I got to the answer, myself. The State of Victoria popped right to mind, but with the name Victoria in the clue, I knew it wouldn’t be that, so I started flipping through the other states and territories of Australia, and Queensland was the third option after Canberra/ACT, and New South Wales (mentally worked my way up the eastern portion of the continent).
I know I really shouldn’t get ‘annoyed’ with contestants, but when you’ve achieved making it on Jeopardy, and you have a chance to win, and you don’t even take a guess at Final Jeopardy…..(sigh)
I can imagine one being so thrown by the combination of category and odd clues that they have no idea of a guess that makes any kind of sense to them, so are afraid of “writing just anything” that they feel has NO CHANCE of being correct but EVERY CHANCE of appearing idiotic to some viewers.
Boy was I wrong, as I had the Sandwich Islands. At least I was only a few thousand miles off.
I figured from the category name that “political unit” here was referring to a province or state, and James Cook led me straight to Australia. However, I fell for the obvious bait, and said Victoria instead 😅
I also said Victoria when watching only FJ from YouTube Jeopardy.