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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 1960s Movies) for Friday, November 7, 2025 (Season 42, Game 45):
Producer Arthur Jacobs told Rod Serling he’d win an Oscar for his script for this; Serling asked instead for a crate of bananas
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Larisa Mount, a doctoral student from Morgantown, West Virginia
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Mason Hendrix, a judicial law clerk originally from Phoenix, Arizona
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Allegra Kuney, a Ph.D. candidate from New Brunswick, New Jersey (2-day total: $65,001)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Allegra Kuney enters into this week-ending game as a 2-game champion and over $60,000 in winnings; by the end of today’s game, we will likely know who will be taking the 19th spot in the Tournament of Champions. If Allegra does not win today, that spot is guaranteed to go to Aaron Levine; If Allegra wins, the spot will be Allegra’s (unless Allegra ends up winning through the entirety of next week’s games—at which point she’d be the first qualifier for the 2027 Tournament of Champions.)
One thing I’d love to see from Jeopardy! when it comes to Jeopardata, though: By-clue granular data in terms of attempts. Because I would absolutely love to see the last 16 clues of yesterday’s Double Jeopardy round, and how much of it was Allegra being locked in and how much of it was Molly maybe taking her foot off the metaphorical gas pedal in the second half of Double Jeopardy.
In other news, I’ve been working on some things that will make it easier to turn around rapid predictions for the 2026 postseason, but I’ve been dealing with some elbow tendinitis as of late that’s hampered my ability to write for extended periods. I’m hoping that I’ll have some solutions to alleviate the pain by the end of the weekend, though.
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Correct response: What is Planet of the Apes?
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This story about Planet of the Apes comes from the July 1994 inaugural issue of Sci-Fi Universe magazine; Serling had been tasked with turning Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes into a movie that would “make an audience believe it and take it seriously.” Serling was still working on the opening at this point; the producers felt that some of the small talk in the opening made the film less believable, while Serling felt “the inclusion of at least some lightness might take it off a single level and give us a little relief”. Still, the producers were generally very happy with the script, feeling it Oscar-worthy. (As it turned out; Serling’s script wasn’t even nominated that year; The Lion in Winter, The Odd Couple, Oliver!, Rachel, Rachel, and Rosemary’s Baby received the nominations in what is now Best Adapted Screenplay.
Not being familiar with this story at all, it was straightforward enough for me to go from “bananas” + “1960s movies” to get to a correct response. While I am extremely reluctant to predict any clue will go 3-for-3, I think today’s Final Jeopardy has as good of a chance as any in the past year of doing so.
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I’m very familiar with the original set of Planet of the Apes movies, so once I saw Arthur P. Jacobs in the clue, my brain Pavloved into the correct response.
Jacobs’ widow was Natalie Trundy, who had many different roles in the series (played a human and an ape (Caesar’s wife, Lisa)).
Thinking ‘going bananas’ could mean crazy or ‘psycho’, I went with Psycho.
You’re right about the straightforwardness of the clue, Andy! In fact, I would add “science fiction” to “bananas” + “1960s movies” because of the Rod Serling connection to get to the correct response.
Yes! As I said in my comment below, the Serling/science fiction connection was the first thing I did, mentally, before adding 1960’s movies and getting to the correct response, using the bananas as a check of my math.
For me, it was “Serling -> sci-fi film + 1960’s = Planet of the Apes” with an “ah! That explains the crate of bananas…” after getting to the answer. Took a few seconds to think through the sci-fi films of the 60s (and somehow I got to Planet of the Apes before 2001 in my mind…) but not more than 10 seconds, leaving enough time to write down the response.
Even with the “crate of bananas” part of the clue, I still did not get the correct response.