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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Around The World) for Monday, July 6, 2026 (Season 42, Game 216):
An unofficial “race” between Japanese & Korean firms led to the construction of these, well southwest of both nations
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Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Lee Ann McGuire Whitlock, an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia
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Owen Harrington, a union organizer & Ph.D. candidate from Chicago, Illinois
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Caleb Groen, a law & policy student originally from Thousand Oaks, California (2-day total: $31,199)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Welcome to another week of Jeopardy! play as we near the end of Season 42 (we only have three weeks left!) This week sees Caleb Groen return as a 2-day champion, facing off against Owen Harrington of Chicago and Lee Ann McGuire Whitlock of North Vancouver, British Columbia. If you recognize the name Whitlock, you’d be correct in assuming a relation—Lee Ann is married to 1996 College champion and 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament alumnus Shane Whitlock.
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Correct response: What are the Petronas Towers?
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In order to build the Petronas Towers quickly in the 1990s, Malaysia took the particularly unusual step of commissioning two different companies to build the twin towers: one Korean (Samsung C&T) and one Japanese (Hazama Corporation). Ostensibly, this allowed construction to proceed simultaneously, but it also provided for a competition for national pride between the two companies, with the Koreans getting the right to build the skybridge between the towers for having finished slightly ahead of the Japanese. The building served as the world’s tallest building between 1998 and 2004 (when it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa).
This is one of those “Today I learned” Final Jeopardy! clues; I never realized that the two towers were built in this way. For that reason, I enjoyed today’s Final Jeopardy clue.
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