Warning: This page contains spoilers for the November 27, 2025, game of Jeopardy! — please do not scroll down if you wish to avoid being spoiled. Please note that the game airs as early as noon Eastern in some U.S. television markets.
Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Name’s The Same) for Thursday, November 27, 2025 (Season 42, Game 59):
The title of an absurdist play from 1957, it’s also in the title of Marvel’s highest-grossing film
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Paul Wenzel, a songwriter/musician from Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Nicole Haase, a freelance journalist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Harrison Whitaker, a researcher originally from Terre Haute, Indiana (12-day total: $330,000)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
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Now that the schedule stuff is out of the way, Harrison Whitaker is now a 12-time Jeopardy! champion as he makes his way up a number of leaderboards, including wins, money won, and correct responses. Looking to stop him are Paul Wenzel of Pennsylvania and Nicole Haase of Wisconsin.
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Correct response: What is Endgame?
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Endgame titles Samuel Beckett’s absurdist 1957 play, dealing with the elderly Hamm, his servant Clov, his father Nagg, and his mother Nell, as they await the end of their lives in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It shares its name with the second part of the title of the highest-grossing film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2019’s Avengers: Endgame, also one of the highest-grossing films of all time.)
One question I always ask myself going into games when we have a superchampion: could this be the last clue the champion sees in regular play? And I must say, I think this would be a particularly ironic last clue if it ended up being the case.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, November 27, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: The Always Reliable Unreliable Narrator; Military Glossary; News In 2025; NFL Grab Bag; Pride; Before Fall)
Harrison had the best time early; midway through the opening round, the scores were Harrison $5,800 Nicole $1,400 Paul $800.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Harrison 8 correct 0 incorrect
Nicole 2 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 1 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Paul counts Kurt Cobain as a musical influence.
Nicole writes about women’s ice hockey.
Harrison listens to “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly” as pump-up music.
Harrison found the Daily Double, picking up a little bit more money; he had a good-sized lead after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Harrison 15 correct 1 incorrect
Nicole 6 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 4 correct 0 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Harrison $8,800
Nicole $4,000
Paul $1,600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: 19th Century Americans; Around The Mediterranean; Love It & Leaf It; Quotes From The Magazine; A-Hunting We Will Go; Weird Words)
Paul took himself out of contention with an incorrect response on DD2; Harrison found DD3 and was also incorrect, but he made a small bet and still had a runaway entering Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Harrison 30 correct 3 incorrect
Nicole 9 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 7 correct 1 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 6 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Harrison $18,800
Nicole $7,200
Paul $2,700
Paul and Harrison were correct in Final as Harrison is now a 13-day champion. He’ll go for #14 tomorrow!
Tonight’s results:
Paul $2,700 + $903 = $3,603 (What is Endgame)
Nicole $7,200 – $1,799 = $5,401 (What is ?)
Harrison $18,800 + $3,200 = $22,000 (What is Endgame?) (13-day total: $352,000)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) MILITARY GLOSSARY $800 (clue #16)
Harrison 5800 +1000 (Nicole 1400 Paul 800)
2) 19th CENTURY AMERICANS $1200 (clue #3)
Paul 3200 -2500 (Harrison 10400 Nicole 4000)
3) WEIRD WORDS $1600 (clue #10, $21200 left on board)
Harrison 13200 -3200 (Nicole 4000 Paul 700)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -85
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Harrison 4 5 5 3 4 5 2 3 3 4 5 3 4*
Nicole 3 4
Paul 4
DJ! Round:
Harrison 4 5† 3 4*
Nicole
Paul 4 3* 4 3 4 3
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Harrison 3.88
Nicole 3.50
Paul 3.57
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 6 (0.10 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Harrison $21,800 Coryat, 30 correct, 3 incorrect, 54.39% in first on buzzer (31/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
Nicole $7,200 Coryat, 9 correct, 0 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Paul $5,200 Coryat, 7 correct, 1 incorrect, 12.28% in first on buzzer (7/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $34,200
Lach Trash: $15,200 (on 12 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $4,600
Lead Changes: 1
Times Tied: 1
Player Statistics:
Harrison Whitaker, career statistics:
382 correct, 41 incorrect
22/24 on rebound attempts (on 54 rebound opportunities)
48.04% in first on buzzer (356/741)
17/30 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,100)
9/13 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $23,738
Nicole Haase, career statistics:
9 correct, 1 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,200
Paul Wenzel, career statistics:
8 correct, 1 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 2 rebound opportunities)
12.28% in first on buzzer (7/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,500)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,200
Harrison Whitaker, to win:
14 games: 64.888%
15: 42.105%
16: 27.321%
17: 17.728%
18: 11.503%
Avg. streak: 14.848 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Harrison passes Adriana Harmeyer for 14th place on the all-time list of regular play winnings.
- Today’s “double runaway” means no wagering suggestions will be posted.
- This is your reminder that the lack of judges saying otherwise means that all correct responses were also properly phrased in the form of a question.
- Today’s J!6 clues can be found at the monthly archive.
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The only absurdist play I could think of in 30 seconds was “Rhinoceros” by Ionesco, although I couldn’t match it up with a movie title.
Ken announced on yesterday’s show that it’s been exactly 24 years since they doubled the dollar values on the game board, so I assume that all of the top winners listed on this page competed after 2001.
24 years since changing the amounts of prize board!?
IMHO, with inflation and cost of living having gone
up just a tad since 2001, I think Sony could afford some
increases on the board, especially when you figure Sony’s
savings on Alex’s v Ken’s salary.
They did update the consolation prizes a few years ago from $1,000/$2,000 to $2,000/$3,000. This helps keep pace with inflation for all contestants, but the upside for the winners is another change made shortly after 2001, when they uncapped the 5-game limit. Now the potential winnings are hypothetically limitless, and there are so many (perhaps too many) ways to get called back. Making sure that the vast majority of players who don’t win don’t break the bank participating was, to me, the more equitable solution.
Rhinoceros was my first thought, too, and knowing that was not a Marvel movie, I just threw out Endgame, not knowing that it was a play, but knowing it made a boat load of money.
My streak of having the correct response for Final Jeopardy is over. As much as I have watched (and, generaly enjoyed all the movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I didn’t know that Avengers Endgame was the MCU’s highest grossing movie to date. I was surprised that just Endgame was accepted as the correct response.
I was under the IMPRESSION that Jeopardy rules required full titles. But asking Google, and, seeing today’s show obviously that impression was wrong,
Bill, you misread the clue. They were asking for the title of the play (which was Endgame) which is ‘in’ the title of the Marvel movie.
RIGHT, though I only got it correct by being pretty sure which MCU movie was the highest grossing and only assuming that ‘Endgame’ would make a good title for any kind of play since 1950.
I’m very much with you, Andy, with my being concerned [make that infuriated] about the increased power demands of the AI data centers, though I am more concerned with the further climate degradation due to providing all that additional electricity (and with QOL effects on their surrounding residents from the noise) due to them than just their leading to increased electricity costs throughout North America [not to diminish the latter concern].