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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 21st Century Novels) for Friday, November 14, 2025 (Season 42, Game 50):
Part 1 of this novel is Toronto & Pondicherry; Part 2 is the Pacific Ocean
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Brent Steele, an environmental engineer from Sellersburg, Indiana
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Sarah Khan, a graduate student originally from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Harrison Whitaker, a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (3-day total: $91,801)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Harrison Whitaker enters into today’s game as a 3-day champion now averaging over 30 correct responses a game (including Final Jeopardy) and over $30,000 a victory. Today, he faces off against Toronto’s Sarah Khan and Indiana’s Brent Steele.
Yesterday saw Harrison take into account his weakness on Daily Doubles, only making small bets on those three clues. He’s completely dominated the rest of his last two games, though. The good thing for Harrison, though, is that if he keeps winning, he should have a year to work on that part of his game before the Tournament of Champions—and we could well have everyone in the 2027 Tournament of Champions field be compared to Harrison as they enter the field. Of course, Aaron Levine has also been cheering loudly for Harrison, as if Harrison does happen to lose today, Harrison will relegate Aaron Levine from the bubble to Champions Wildcard.
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Correct response: What is Life of Pi?
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Canadian author Yann Martel’s 2001 Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi describes the life of Piscine “Pi” Patel, who ends up on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean after the ship he was on sinks, alongside a tiger named Richard Parker.
As someone whose important years in Canadian high school competitive quizzing came when this book was released, I am of the perfect nationality and age for this to be an instaget. Unfortunately, it’s also very difficult for me to judge how this one’s going to play with a general American audience.
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Having only seen the movie some time ago(which I thought was wonderful), I wasn’t familiar with (or had forgotten) Toronto and Pondicherry references.
I haven’t read the book or seen the film but I guessed the only 21st century book I remembered as taking place in the Pacific and I was surprisingly correct.
I was thinking maybe Unbroken 🤷♀️ which is a great book I read years ago…never read or saw Life of Pi.