The TOP 10 Hardest Final Jeopardy Rounds | World of Jeopardy

[@stephenwoehr6500]

To adapt a quote from Regis Philbin, "They're only hard if you don't know the answers."

[@JayTemple]

That might have been true on WWTBAM, but on Jeopardy you can often suss out the correct response.

[@michaelshaw4443]

Yeah this is more like 10 random final jeopardies rather than the 10 hardest from the show's 40-year run

[@HarryBlack-m4r]

Holy shit I love that

[@qqw743]

You mean the questions. In Jeopardy the task it to provide the question. It's.a stupid rule but it is the rule.

[@gameshows5973]

it's amazing how much Merv Griffin and his estate has made just off that 30 sec theme

[@timraetzloff143]

I enjoy seeing Alex again.

[@charfinch6358]

Me too

[@haweater1555]

As a Canadian, i find Anne of Green Gables' home of Prince Edward Island amusing to be considered part of "New England".😅

[@alanr4447a]

They probably had her confused with Anne of Martin Gabels.

[@MajorSeventh]

@@alanr4447a lol

[@AxelQC]

They speak English, don't they???

[@montanalilac]

And was anyone else as offended as I was the he misspelled Anne? 😂😂😂

[@haweater1555]

@@montanalilac There's even a TV series with a title to remind you of spelling: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_with_an_E

[@jaym1512]

Watching that celebrity Jeopardy part, you can see where Will Ferrell got his inspiration for the amazing SNL sketches.

[@ms.annthrope415]

Celebrity Jeopardy is dumbed down for stupid celebrities.

[@Psycho5275]

"I don't need to be smarter, I need to be more Famous!" -Twitch Streamer Northernlion

[@rol1in0n20s]

Me, with the video paused on the second clue: "well it's a French guy talking about islands surrounding Australia, so it's gotta be about French Polynesia, but what nickname could he have given them? Shit, I don't know any nicknames for Polynesia..." 😂

[@JayTemple]

When you can't even make a guess, that think music seems to last an eternity!

[@honkeykong9563]

To contestants it Probably sounds like Requiem or a funeral march.

[@R.Oates7902]

I think it's obnoxious music

[@PierreSaidIDontCare]

So shocked no one guessed Sarah Plain and Tall! And even more shocked that they all they all thought Anne of Green Gabled (and yes, "Anne with an E"!) -- that book took place in PEI Canada, not the Prairie!

[@ElizabethPetrie-m3z]

Or New England. 🇨🇦🙄

[@jillfromatlanta427]

Montgomery did the Anne books

[@ProfGlitch]

its interesting listening to all the various versions of the final jeopardy music

[@johns.8246]

Hitler was so obvious that I thought it had to be someone else.

[@mbdg6810]

Thats exactly how I messed up lol

[@julietvalcouer]

That Hitler one should have been a total softball. FDR was elected in 1932 and inaugurated in 1933, Hitler became chancellor in 1933, FDR died in early April 1945, Hitler died at the end of April.

[@rebeccabrooks5832]

No one wanted to say Hitler and be wrong. I thought Hitler, but I was not 100% sure so I probably wouldn’t have given that as my answer.

[@afridgetoofar1818]

@@rebeccabrooks5832You hit it on the head. Political correctness has made everyone afraid to be honest.

[@123brendan12]

Nailed the Rembrandt one

[@frankdeboer1347]

I thought it was too obvious so I guessed wrong.

[@toddmccreary4579]

It's usually a fairly easy question for regular players in Celebrity Jeopardy. I goofed and said Van Gogh but like most Celebrity Jeopardy players none of them even tried.

[@Rockhound6165]

Rembrandt was the only Dutch artist I could think of. LOL

[@nstavola7329]

The woman who guessed Harry Truman was perhaps the worst guess ever.

[@erikdegeorge866]

1. No idea 2. I said Micronesia 3. Rembrandt - easy one 4. Yep Texas 5. Nope 6. Tennessee 7. Navratilova 8. Ugh I thought Hitler was too easy so I said Mussolini 9. Totally forgot about Anthony Hopkins 10. No idea

[@ser132]

Mussolini died two days before Hitler, and for some reason I find it interesting that these three leaders all died in such a short span of time. Mussolini became Prime Minister in 1922, though. I couldn't remember when Mussolini came to power though, and was going back and forth between the two before settling on the Italian.

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

I got Polynesia and Hitler. I was kicking myself, as I know David Brat's campaign manager, but I couldn't come up with the name. Didn't get Navratilova or Tennessee.

[@cavemanooga]

I too fell into the Mussolini trap.

[@nickpatrick7021]

I said Micronesia too lol. Knew the Hitler one because Hitler thought that the death of Roosevelt was going to be the miracle that would save Germany in the 11th hour when he was down in his bunker in Berlin. Texas was straightforward because the category was US History. Had Vermeer as my Dutch painter because I thought Rembrandt was too obvious

[@qqw743]

These were all wrong. Ya hafta phrase it in the form of a question. I didn't make that dumb rule, but it is the rule.

[@a.grimes4202]

Honestly, I’m completely befuddled that none of the contestants got “Who is(/was) Hitler?”. Hitler took power January 30, 1933, FDR took power as US PotUS March 4, 1933; FDR died April 12, 1945, Hitler ended his life April 30, 1945. That was, IMHO, by far the easiest of the clues.

[@robertlevine2827]

Preach it.

[@a.grimes4202]

@@robertlevine2827 Amen. LOL

[@freddyfurrah3789]

That was pretty easy.

[@aspenrebel]

Me too!! If u believe Hitler died then and there, that is. Hummm!!!???

[@a.grimes4202]

@@aspenrebel There’s never been any evidence proving otherwise.

[@lisa22150]

I got 3 correct - as long as Sarah, Plain and Tall satisfies for the first question!

[@johnanderson9765]

You couldn't find ten in which all three missed it?

[@bruss529]

yeah but the questions weren't that hard, the players were exceptionally stupid.

[@macforme]

@@bruss529 Let us know when you get on the show.... I will be watching closely.

[@sijdnsd6460]

If you know “Manifest Destiny”, then the Texas one was easy. I think the Hitler one was really easy, but no one on that stage wanted to write Hitler fearing embarrassment from being wrong.

[@patrickstewart3446]

I think the phrase “left power” confused them. I don’t know if they considered death as leaving power. 😁

[@freddyfurrah3789]

Good Point!

[@aspenrebel]

I forgot it said American History so I was thinking around Europe.

[@aspenrebel]

​@@patrickstewart3446well it's a most final way "to leave power", isnt it? I got Hitler right off. Kinda helps I studied him, read many books, watched Docs, and wrote 3 diff papers on him when I was in school. I think back then FDR's first term, he was sworn in on March ??, 1933. Hitler came to power end of Jan 1933. ......... There's a Jeopardy Q for you: "name the one U.S. President who served a full term in office but DID NOT serve a full 4 years? I forget which term, maybe 1st to 2nd, for FDR. Cuz next term he was sworn in on Jan 20th (they changed it). So March ?? To Jan 20 is less than a full year, so term was less than 4 full years.

[@donofon1014]

@@patrickstewart3446 except that applied to both FDR and Hitler. History documents Hitler's insane notion that FDR's death was the omen of turning the tide. The Allies were deep into Germany .. and from the East .. Berlin.

[@Joe-j5t]

Woo woo. Got 4 of 'em.

[@ashsherod6321]

Nailed the Anthony Hopkins one.

[@Rainmaker205]

The Tennessee one wasn’t too bad. I quickly figured out the vacant for 4 years clue was referring to the Civil War, which meant the President was Andrew Johnson. As long as you remembered the category was 19th Century, connecting the dots to the end of the Civil War should not have been that difficult.

[@sijdnsd6460]

I got the President but not the state lol.

[@electricninja7493]

I got that one too lol

[@aspenrebel]

Ohhh!! Arent u clever. Reason why vacant 4 years.

[@linshanhsiang]

​@sijdnsd6460 me too.

[@terrimorrison2857]

The seat was vacant not because Johnson resigned when Tennessee seceded but because Lincoln appointed him as Military Governor of Tennessee in 1862 and put him in control of land that the Union forces had reclaimed in battles. He also was re-elected to that same senate seat in 1875 but only served a few months of the term before he died. He is the only President to serve in the Senate after serving as President.

[@ZiggyPalffyLA]

Yayyy I was your 1000th subscriber!

[@Tubewings]

5:33; Ah, they actually acknowledge the Seniors Tournament for once. For the record, this is from the 1990 Final.

[@occono3543]

No "they", this isn't an official channel.

[@WorldofJeopardy]

;)

[@zachpriddy8432]

I'm proud of myself for getting the last two!

[@Jimmersaunt]

I got Sarah, Plain and Tall, Rembrandt, Anthony Hopkins and one other

[@patrickjorda5523]

Trebek❤

[@jeatig]

I wish that (at least, occasionally) the original 30-second Final Jeopardy! music be used!!

[@marshaprice8226]

I wish they would have at least indicated the season of episode, if not the date of the original airing.

[@michaelfsmith3208]

One look at Trebek’s mustache gives me the date to within a week.

[@adriennejames9120]

It's nice to see Alex back on the stage... 😢

[@trevorpanno516]

Jennifer mouthed Navratilova @ 11:56.

[@johnanderson9765]

I saw that too, she came up with the correct response a bit too late.

[@trevorpanno516]

Jennifer knew it after Alex mentioned that she was 46.

[@dantheminigolfwizard860]

I don’t understand the title of this video. Maybe two or three of these could even remotely be considered the hardest final Jeopardy’s of all time

[@Roscoe-pi1gq]

I know. Rembrandt seemed obvious (even though no celebrity got it)

[@pronkb000]

@@Roscoe-pi1gq I overthought it because I didn't know it was a Celebrity Final. I knew it couldn't be Van Gogh (he of the 1 painting sold in his lifetime) but thought Rembrandt was too obvious. If I'd have known it was celebrities playing, though, it'd be an instaget.

[@anthonyperno1348]

It is as if the editor responsible for writing the title only watched the first question.

[@RVBJohn]

The video title is pretty obvious even if you don't agree with the selections

[@peelsreklaw]

It's the same as every other "Top 10" video or tierlists? They're all opinion-based obviously. That's why everyone has fun making their own and comparing. Except the sourpusses.

[@teresabrown3305]

WOW! These were tough.

[@TheFunnyCave]

What’s the sound she makes at 12:13? 😂

[@amwfan88]

I read Sarah, Plain & Tall in third grade, so the first one was easy for me.

[@afridgetoofar1818]

Yep. I remember doing a book report on it lol

[@alexanderf8451]

1. Guessed Jo from Little House 2. Polynesia, clue made it obvious 3. Rembrandt, very famous painting 4. Guessed Haiti (but this one seemed like it would be easy to a skilled quizzer) 5. Guessed Cats 6. Guessed Georgia 7. Guess Serena Williams, sports would kill me on Jeopardy 8. First thought was Stalin 9. I also could only think of Daniel Day Lewis but that was obviously wrong 10. absolutely zero idea, couldn't even try to guess

[@sms17762000]

Daniel Day-Lewis Lincoln Year: 2012 2012 was not in the 90s

[@jenniferberk5891]

And he's not British either, lol

[@can72287]

He is British

[@jenniferberk5891]

@@can72287 he's Irish. Absolutely NOT BRITISH.

[@theweysermanisback5205]

Congratulations, George Soule! You are the 1990 Seniors Champion!

[@mitchellhodack657]

$25,000 on the nose!

[@theweysermanisback5205]

George, we'll see you in the 1990 Tournament of Champions. Bernard & Hank, great run, but I'm sorry. It's over.

[@jlmiles1952]

I got 2of them ŕight

[@theweysermanisback5205]

Which 2 did you get?

[@wjh1482]

Bernard’s “hair”. Wow

[@linshanhsiang]

I KNOW!

[@tsugima6317]

Forerunner of the Trump hair do.... Interesting enough when Ivanna died they showed past clips of her and one looks like the dead spit of what Donald is wearing now.

[@elizabethmcmeniman559]

11/28/22 (Cris Pannullo game 16.)

[@dirtyfrench2926]

I only got the Anthony Hopkins one correct. I had zero idea on any of those others though.

[@robertlevine2827]

That one was mildly tricky; "Amistad" took place after John Quincy Adams's presidency.

[@donofon1014]

having a brain freeze .. I was yelling out Hannibal Lecter at the tv.

[@AxelQC]

Not one of the celebrities could name a Dutch painter???

[@jasonb7812]

I mean, one of them was Carl Lewis…

[@AxelQC]

@@jasonb7812 What's your point? That he's stupid???

[@NotAGoodUsername360]

Rembrandt? More like, Remembern't!

[@ElCrab]

Literally they were better off not guessing, as what they'd win would be less than 10 grand. Though perhaps the show would have donated what they won plus the 10 grand?

[@dannyboy34677]

On that sports Final Jeopardy, Rohan Bopanna in India, became the oldest winner of the Australian Open when won the Men's Doubles title with Matthew Ebden earlier this year. Martina in 2003 was the previous oldest to win it.

[@belletie]

Bopanna is the oldest man to win a major, not oldest player.

[@silverback7675]

Alex Trebek is the GOAT, everyone else is like saccharine, a horrendous substitute in every way.

[@BKNYC89]

"Sarah Plain and Tall" used to be my favorite book in the fifth grade so I got that one right 😂

[@thomasmullaney4306]

Got Anthony Hopkins...one of my favorite actors.

[@broadnerdmike6450]

I think Navritalova and Anthony Hopkins are very gettable to anyone who grew up in the 90s. A couple of these were downright brutal though, and one of them was Celebrity Jeopardy which blows my mind they dude a question like that.

[@Zombiekilleryamato]

I do think there are some recent ones that don’t give enuf context to answer it

[@JairoD.Garcia]

I Know Season 33 is the most difficult final Jeopardy ever.

[@olivegreenpants7153]

7 out of 10. Not bad

[@RobertLipsky]

When all of the contestants and you at home get it wrong, it's a bad clue.

[@infonut]

I missed 4 but I should mention that I got the president right just the wrong state on one of them. . . also, I can't spell Navratilova.

[@Jimmersaunt]

Martina Navratilova was my fourth correct answer.

[@Myrdden71]

Got two correct! Polynesia and Anthony Hopkins. Should have gotten Hitler, too, but guessed Franco for some reason. Thanks for the video!

[@beanie3427]

Hey I got 5 out of the 10 right at least! But they honestly didn’t seem crazy hard, the ones I got right: Polynesia: Honestly this and Oceania were the only two that made sense to me, and Oceania seemed too obvious or too modern to be correct. Texas Republic: Category kind of gave the answer away for me. Tennessee: 19th century category + 4 year Senate vacancy = Civil War, and just happened to know Andrew Johnson is from Tennessee Navratilova: Just kinda knew this one. Hitler: This was a semi-guess because the timelines seemed to match up more or less correctly. And I knew it wasn’t Stalin or Churchill or Hirohito. Mussolini made me question myself bc I couldn’t remember when he came to power. The other five I had no freaking clue though lol. I guessed Anne or GG for the children’s book ?, Van Gogh for the artist, Joseph and the technicolored Dream-coat for broadway, Gary Oldman for Oscars, and didn’t have a guess for the last one.

[@TravisWilkins-h1e]

3:49 What is the date after the episode aired?

[@LazyParasyte]

That second question is a doozy 😂

[@LoraCoggins]

That first one... never heard of that book in my life.

[@josephpoley4805]

I got 6 of these. Not bad!!

[@c.d.macaulay66]

It was probably a royalties thing. With a charge for every time the video is viewed. That could run into some serious coin.

[@chrishunter5008]

1. No idea 2. The Thousand Islands - X 3. Rembrandt - $ 4. Texas - $ 5. No clue 6. Tennessee - $ 7. Chris Evert-Lloyd - X 8. Stalin - X 9. Hopkins - $ 10. ???

[@Coco-zu9ob]

I guessed Anthony Hopkins. I didn't remember Nixon, but i remembered he played Adams in Amistad.

[@stevenjoyal6565]

I have Rembrandt, Texas, The Fantastiks, Martina Navratilova, Hitler, and Anthony Hopkins.

[@BBB-Schmuck]

I have hemorrhoids

[@linshanhsiang]

I thought of The Fantasticks but couldn't think of the name! "Why did the kids put jam on the cat? Why woujd the kids do something like that? They did it 'cause we said NO!"

[@theweysermanisback5205]

7:35 Wow, indeed, George!

[@drewconway7135]

I knew most of these (yes, even Sarah Plain and Tall), but that last one was a killer

[@Rusty3659]

I knew 5 of them and had a 50/50 shot atca sixth, the one about tge world leader who died after FDR. But I chose the wrong one.

[@MisterHoodrich89]

Tennessee and David Blatt+Dave Brat were the only two that I knew

[@haweater1555]

Several years ago, Alex announced the Final Jeopardy catagory as "Five Letter Words" [sounds simple enough??]. The clue went like this: "The word 'telephone' was first part of Websters Dictionary in its 1892 edition. This related word also made its debut in the same edition." I had no idea of the proper response, and the contestants wrote: "phone", "phone", "?" [nothing]. Alex said the correct response is "Hello". Everyone was surprised to realize that such a common word today was an obscure colloquialism not warrenting a dictionary entry in years past. The word was promoted by Alexander Graham Bell as a proper short and efficient greeting for telephone use, rather than the formal but elaborate "Good morning, how is your day" etc that unnecessarily tied up too much early precious phone line time.

[@FastEddy1959]

But Bell, I believe, was known to be in favor in favor of answering by saying “Ahoy! Ahoy!”

[@robertlevine2827]

And that's why many other languages similar-sounding variations of "hello" (e.g. "Allo" in French) exclusively for answering the telephone. On a different note, I'm sure I would have done much better with the category "Four-Letter Words."

[@freddyfurrah3789]

AHOY

[@aspenrebel]

Or "Ahoy!".

[@aspenrebel]

​@@robertlevine2827home; milk; beer;

[@theweysermanisback5205]

With George Soule's win, this leaves me with 3 Seniors Champions who I have yet to see their big win. Those are Peggy Kennedy, Leonard Schmidt & Bart Thomas.

[@ishouldhavetried]

The biggest surprise of the night was finding out Anthony Hopkins is British.

[@austynhl9484]

The scream I scrumpt when I got the first onr correctly.

[@RodericSpode]

The Politics question can't be one of the ten hardest final Jeopardies. Not only did all 3 contestants get it right, but so did I!

[@Redmenace96]

I first thought of Navratalova because she kept playing so long, but really didn't think 46 was that old for mixed doubles. Was thinking of margaret Wade or Margaret Court? I'm not clear which one is which? One of them is Aussie.

[@jeffgorham8819]

Got all except the first and last ones. (Finally remember David Brat at the 25 second mark, had no idea about the coach.)

[@gabrieldodds9081]

I honestly didn’t do that bad. I got Rembrandt, Tennessee, Navratilova, and hitler

[@TravisWilkins-h1e]

5:34 Wow! That's an old episode.

[@afridgetoofar1818]

The only one that stumped me was the last one.

[@keithhosannah3022]

IMO, the hardest Final Jeopardy! was from 2005 in the second game of the first semi-final in the Ultimate Tourmament of Champions between Jerome Vered, Pam Mueller and Frank Spangenberg. The category: Words from Latin.

[@holdkingsix]

I work in Hollywood and I’m super proud I got The Fantastiks and Anthony Hopkins. Not even CLOSE otherwise so I guess I’m in the right business

[@ed9492]

I knew one immediately and am shocked none of them got it. I had a good feeling about one and also got that one right. There was one that I should have known but didn't.

[@graperonto]

Who was the second host? I don't have a television so I haven't watched Jeopardy for quite some time.

[@Itsoo1]

Mike Richards, former EP of Jeopardy who was one of the guest hosts following Trebek's death. He was announced as the new host starting Season 38. After many controversies about him surfaced, however, he was ousted as host after just a week.

[@yougottabekidding7476]

'' Rembrandt'' was the answer I guessed.

[@afterthesmash]

I only got Hopkins and Navratilova.

[@briangonigal3974]

I got Rembrandt, Hitler & Anthony Hopkins.

[@joekelly9941]

Out of context this would be quite a sentence haha

[@alanr4447a]

@@joekelly9941 Who were the Three Stooges?

[@TravelingwithValeman77]

Who are 3 people that have never been in my kitchen. Haha😂

[@TravisWilkins-h1e]

@@alanr4447a that's Larry, Moe and Curly, numb nuts 😋

[@tomshea8382]

Not "hardest," just indicative of the fact that very few of us know enough about all things to prosper at a general-knowledge quiz show like Jeopardy.

[@ventues9751]

I got Anthony Hopkins right too !! :)

[@seoulnessie]

I knew Naratilova!

[@mikebrazao1836]

The World Leaders question (Hitler) question was very misleadingly worded. Most people would not equate suicide with "leaving power".

[@daverice2426]

6:09 WORST. COMBOVER. EVER.

[@petermacdonough9077]

I only got the Anthony Hopkins one right!!!:)

[@danpage6907]

I only got numbers 1, 3, 5, and 9 correct! I had five incorrect responses and I left #10 blank.

[@002DrEvil]

I got 3 of them right at least. Unfortunately I guessed Van Gogh for the Dutch artist, not Rembrandt and didn't know Texas had ever been a country.

[@deniseeulert2503]

Rembrandt was one I got right, thanks to a book series he plays a part in.

[@BBB-Schmuck]

I am Brainiac.. I got them all! Child's play! Gaze upon my knowledge in awe mortals.

[@linshanhsiang]

I doubt it!

[@boybawang1981]

The first one was a Gimme!! Anne lives in Canadia people!!

[@johnanderson9765]

I was able to come up with Anthony Hopkins, 1990s pop culture is a category I do well in.

[@jillv4006]

I got the first one right. Yay!

[@joshuabarkley8485]

Got the first one

[@chrissteed8170]

Careful Ken he is coming after your record.

[@tejaswoman]

Confused by what your criteria is for "hardest" - several of these were insta-gets, and I'm only a bronze 🥉 J! medalist. (Granted, that's more about difficulties with buzzer timing; rang in on 42 of 60 clues, of which I knew 40, but I only got to respond to 10.)

[@joebarr725]

If all three contestants answer the Final Jeopardy clue correctly, it was too easy. If they all miss it, it was too difficult.