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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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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.
I went with Canada. Victoria, BC.
“Political unit” threw me off also.