Jeopardy! is all set to return with a new episode on Monday, December 23, 2024. This episode will bring back another exciting episode from the game show's 41st season, which has been quite great so far. We have yet to see a contestant with a very long streak. However, much of the season is still left, and there is still time to see some contestants with unbelievably long streaks. We have one such potential contestant in Laura Faddah, who has now won two games.
In the upcoming round, Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, Tennessee, will play her third game against newcomers Sean Maguire, a commercial real estate manager from New York, New York, and Jenifer Miller, a freelance web developer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Faddah has won $17,000 in her two games and will hope to do better in the coming days as well.
The final round of Jeopardy! has many elements that make it stand out. This includes the ability to allow viewers to participate by guessing the correct answer to the final question ahead of the episode's air time. Over the years, this has become a common practice for the fans of the game show.
We have compiled the question, answer, and other relevant details from the upcoming episode below.
December 23, 2024, Monday: Today's Final Jeopardy!
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The final question for the upcoming round of the game show reads:
"In 2009 this leader gave Barack Obama the book “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”"
This question is from the category "World Leaders." This is a more common trivia topic that has appeared on the show before and is still quite popular in all kinds of trivia circles.
In the final round, participants are provided with a solution, and they need to figure out the question.
Jeopardy! final solution: Monday, December 23, 2024
The clue and solution to the upcoming round's final question are as follows.
Clue: In 2009 this leader gave Barack Obama the book “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”
Solution: Hugo Chávez.
Hugo Chávez served as the President of Venezuela from 1999 until 2013. He was a major opposition to American foreign policy during his reign. Chávez gave a Spanish copy of Open Veins to Obama.
Jeopardy! contestants today: Monday, December 23, 2024
The three contestants for the upcoming round of the game show are Laura Faddah, a manager from Memphis, Tennessee; Sean Maguire, a commercial real estate manager from New York, New York; and Jenifer Miller, a freelance web developer from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Catch them in action on the upcoming round of Jeopardy!