Today's Final Jeopardy! answer: Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The new year started off with another brand-new episode of Jeopardy! Today's episode marks the 83rd game of season 41. This latest episode of the game show will undoubtedly bring us some very interesting clues and some exciting trivia and will see the three contestants of today's game go head-to-head against each other to rank up.

Today's episode will see contestants Josh Moss, Gino Montoya, and Colleen Matthews playing against each other to head on to the next phase of the game.

Jeopardy! is an American television game show which was created by Merv Griffin in 1964. Unlike traditional quiz competitions, here we see a reversal of the traditional question-and-answer format. Instead of having to answer given questions, contestants are provided with general knowledge clues in the form of answers.

Their task is to identify the person, place, thing, or idea that the clue indicates or hints at. The final answer to the game must be phrased in the form of a question.

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January 1, 2025, Wednesday: Today's Final Jeopardy! question

Provided below is the question for today's game.

According to his son Fred, this man first tried smoking just because it was against the rules at West Point

Today's question comes from the category of United States Presidents. This topic pertains to US politics and will test the contestants' knowledge of politics and history. Moreover, the game show provided a very interesting and unique clue to the solution, and it would indeed be exciting to see who arrives at the correct answer for today's Final Jeopardy!

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Jeopardy! final solution: Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The solution to today's Jeopardy! is as follows:

Solution: Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

Ulysses Grant was born in Ohio. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1843 and went on to become the 18th president of the United States. Grant's tenure was from 1869 to 1877, and in 1865, he was the commanding general. He is reputed to have led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War.

One of the most widely known myths about Grant is that he regularly smoked 20 cigars a day. It is also claimed that he first smoked at West Point. Eventually, Grant was compelled to give up his smoking habit due to a terminal illness.

While it is true that he was a heavy smoker and liked his cigar, it is practically impossible to smoke 20 cigars a day on a regular basis. He later developed oral cancer and passed away due to his smoking and drinking habits.

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Jeopardy! contestants today: Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Today's Final Jeopardy! contestants are as follows:

• Craft distillery owner Josh Moss from Boston, Massachusetts
• Gino Montoya, an attorney hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Colleen Matthews, who is a speech-language pathologist from Hillsboro, Oregon

Today's game will feature Semifinal 3 of the first of two weeks of Second Chance play. Competing today are Matthews, who came very close to beating Adriana Harmeyer way back in June, and Gino Montoya, who only lost by a slim chance in October because of an all-in bet. Josh Moss, who put up a $14,600 Coryat against Adriana early in her run, is also competing today.

If there is anything we have learned from the first two semifinals, it is practically impossible to predict these games.

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Catch the three contestants face off on today's game.