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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Poetic Objects) for Monday, November 17, 2025 (Season 42, Game 51):
In a British poem, this is “raddled with Napoleon’s paint. Nose eaten by a less clear conqueror”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Rachel Bernstein, a teacher from Los Angeles, California
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Lawrence Suba, a technical software trainer from Verona, Wisconsin
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Harrison Whitaker, a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (4-day total: $116,600)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Harrison Whitaker, last Friday, became the second consecutive 4-time champion we’ve had on Jeopardy! and the 477th player to win 4 times. Today, he looks to become the 291st 5-time champion. On this Monday trying to end Harrison’s streak at 4 games are your challengers, Rachel Bernstein of Los Angeles and Lawrence Suba of Wisconsin.
It’s also the first day in the qualification period for the 2027 Tournament of Champions; I’m personally expecting the end of the qualification period to return to its early December spot next season, with this year’s postseason having been pushed forward slightly due to the risk of Olympic pre-emptions in February. As 2027 is not an Olympic year, there is no risk of Olympic pre-emptions like there will be in a couple of months.
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Correct response: What is the Sphinx?
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“Four Legs, Two Legs, Three Legs”, part of William Empson’s 1940 poetry collection The Gathering Storm, is a poem about the Sphinx and its famous riddle: “What has four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs at night?” (The answer, famously, being “man”: crawling in infancy, walking in adulthood, and using a cane for support when elderly.) In it, the Sphinx itself is described as “The wrecked girl, still raddled with Napoleon’s paint. Nose eaten by a less clear conqueror. Still orientated to the average dawn.” Why does the Sphinx have no nose in the first place? The Smithsonian believes that this was the work of one Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr, upset at the Egyptian idolatry towards the massive limestone creature—peasants would make offerings to the Sphinx in hope of controlling the annual Nile flood. The Sufi dervish al-Dahr decided it necessary to deface the statue by chiselling off its nose.
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Thinking of something with a missing nose, The Sphynx was my only guess – but it took me a few seconds.
Lucky guess for me as a visual of the sphinx came into my mind.