Spoilers ahead for the December 1, 2025, episode of Jeopardy!

When a Jeopardy! contestant does as well as super-champion Harrison Whitaker, it’s hard not to believe they were born for this. It’s also, evidently, hard not to wonder where they were born: While Whitaker was consistently identified as a Terre Haute, Indiana, native, viewers puzzled over his accent, which they maintain is vaguely British, perhaps owing to the fact that he now lives in the U.K. And they had plenty of time to speculate, since Whitaker won an impressive 14 games before being knocked out by challenger Libby Jones on the December 1 episode. Over the course of his nearly three-week run, Whitaker became the 19th Jeopardy! super-champ after winning his tenth game and broke the record for the highest single-da

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