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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Literary Characters) for Tuesday, November 4, 2025 (Season 42, Game 42):
“Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life!”, says this man
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Aaron Himmel, a stay-at-home dad originally from Long Island, New York
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Joseph Evans, a middle school history teacher from Beltsville, Maryland
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Joyelle McSweeney, a poet & English professor from South Bend, Indiana (1-day total: $17,700)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
It’s been a good time for poets as of late on Jeopardy!; our latest champion in Joyelle McSweeney is a poet and English professor. Today, she faces off in a title defense against middle school history teacher Joseph Evans and stay-at-home dad Aaron Himmel.
I alluded to this yesterday, and I just want to bring this up again: I think Joyelle has the knowledge base to go on a run as champion. My biggest concern is that variance is going to get in her way, and I thought she did a terrible job of managing that variance in yesterday’s game. During play yesterday, she selected five separate top-row clues, including the top-row clue in the category where DD2 had already been uncovered. (I was still living in Ontario the last time we had a top-row Daily Double.) Even if she goes conservative with her bets on them, it will overall be better for her chances of winning if she finds the Daily Doubles, as opposed to letting her opponents take a shot at them.
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Correct response: Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?
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In Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts: his former business partner Jacob Marley, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, reminding Scrooge of his miserly ways, and how if he’ll follow that path, he will end up unmourned and uncared for. In front of that final ghost, Scrooge pledges to change his ways (in the form of the quote from today’s Final Jeopardy clue).
I think it’s interesting that the show has chosen to run this clue in early November instead of waiting a month for everyone get more into the Christmas spirit. I think it’ll have no change in how it plays in-studio but might make this clue slightly harder at home.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, November 4, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Put It On; Ancient Names; That’s Crickets; 8-Letter Words; In The Book; Aaron Sorkin)
Both challengers got off to a good start, while Joyelle sat third after a pair of incorrect responses. After 15 clues, the scores were Joe $2,800 Aaron $2,400 Joyelle $400.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Joseph 5 correct 1 incorrect
Aaron 5 correct 1 incorrect
Joyelle 2 correct 2 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Aaron was an executive producer of “The Brutalist”.
Joseph has Bob Barker as a teaching inspiration.
Joyelle has taught at schools including Alabama and Notre Dame.
Joe found the Daily Double, picking up just $1,000; this allowed Aaron to go on a charge at the end of the round, taking the halftime lead on the board’s last clue.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Aaron 12 correct 1 incorrect
Joseph 11 correct 1 incorrect
Joyelle 3 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Aaron $5,600
Joseph $5,400
Joyelle $800
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Put It Off; A Watery Border; Old TV Show, New Audience; They Got Married; Adult Beverages; Not Their Main Musical Instrument)
Joyelle found DD2 immediately, losing $2,000; Aaron lost $3,000 on DD3, which was enough to make sure things still were interesting going into Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Aaron 23 correct 3 incorrect
Joseph 15 correct 2 incorrect
Joyelle 13 correct 7 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 6 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Aaron $15,000
Joseph $9,000
Joyelle $3,600
Joyelle and Joe were correct in Final Jeopardy, but Aaron was not, and that makes Joe our new champion! He’ll be back tomorrow to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Joyelle $3,600 + $3,600 = $7,200 (Who is Scrooge? I <3 Nora + David! <3 <3)
Joseph $9,000 + $6,529 = $15,529 (Who is Scrooge) (1-day total: $15,529)
Aaron $15,000 – $3,001 = $11,999 (Who is Dr. Jekyll?)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) IN THE BOOK $800 (clue #17)
Joseph 2800 +1000 (Joyelle 400 Aaron 2400)
2) NOT THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $1200 (clue #1)
Joyelle 800 -2000 (Joseph 5400 Aaron 5600)
3) A WATERY BORDER $1600 (clue #5, $27600 left on board)
Aaron 11200 -3000 (Joyelle -1200 Joseph 5400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -91
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Joyelle 1 3 2
Joseph 3 3 4 5 3 5 4*
Aaron 4 4 5 4 5 4 5
DJ! Round:
Joyelle 3* 5†
Joseph
Aaron 4 5 4*
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Joseph 3.86
Aaron 4.40
Joyelle 2.80
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 6 (0.14 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Joseph $8,800 Coryat, 15 correct, 2 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 3/4 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Aaron $18,000 Coryat, 23 correct, 3 incorrect, 40.35% in first on buzzer (23/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Joyelle $5,600 Coryat, 13 correct, 7 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $32,400
Lach Trash: $8,600 (on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $13,000
Lead Changes: 6
Times Tied: 2
Player Statistics:
Joyelle McSweeney, career statistics:
38 correct, 12 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
40.35% in first on buzzer (46/114)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,000)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $11,600
Joseph Evans, career statistics:
16 correct, 2 incorrect
3/4 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $1,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $8,800
Aaron Himmel, career statistics:
23 correct, 4 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
40.35% in first on buzzer (23/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,000
Joseph Evans, to win:
2 games: 51.269%
3: 26.285%
4: 13.476%
5: 6.909%
6: 3.542%
Avg. streak: 2.052 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s result qualifies Mike Dawson for the Tournament of Champions.
- Today’s J!6 clues can be found at the monthly archive.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Aaron $15,000 Joseph $9,000 Joyelle $3,600)
Joyelle: If you think Joseph will pass Aaron’s score by at least $1, bet no more than $600. Otherwise, bet at least $2,401. Either is fine. (Actual bet: $3,600)
Joseph: Bet at least $3,000 to have any chance of victory. (Actual bet: $6,529)
Aaron: Standard cover bet is $3,001. (Actual bet: $3,001)
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Read the book. Seen many versions of it on screen and on stage. It was a gimme for me.
Got this quickly. Reading helps you place characters by their speaking.
Easiest FJ in a while, almost so easy that I had to make sure that I wasn’t answering with tunnel vision.
I got this one right away, for a change! The interesting part was that I was hearing Patrick Steward reading that line. “Shadows” was kind of the big clue for me, since i believe Marley mentions them, too.
I do not dispute that ‘A Christmas Carol’ was a great story and made a great play but I was bored to death of it by the time I was in High School, so I do not recall anything about shadows [literal nor figurative, but apparently at least in words], but I still recognized that was what this clue was probably referring to and said “Scrooge”.
Slightly ahead of season, but pretty obvious.
Patrick Stewart, George C Scott, and Jim Carrey all were great at portraying Scrooge, my personal fave being Scott, probably because his rendition seemed to air the most when I was growing up.
I really liked Rich Little’s version where he did each character as an impersonation. Scrooge was W.C. Fields. Jacob Marley was Richard Nixon. Truman Capote was Tiny Tim.
what was the answer to the question what is new york, ontario? november 4, 2025
The Niagara River forms a border between this U.S. state & this Canadian province
Today’s Final Jeopardy was a total “get” for me. The quotation just screamed Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol,” and, since it called for the speaker, Ebenezer Scrooge was the seemingly obvious correct response.
Did a bit of Googling. Asked it, per game rules, if Baja would’ve have been accepted as a correct response for Monday’s Final Jeopardy. Google said it would’ve have been if I had used it as my “final answer.” Baja was acceptable since it was a well known slang term for the peninsula, and, state.
I had no idea on this FJ.