Final Jeopardy: World Capitals (7-28-25)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: Quarterfinal #1 of the 2025 Tournament of Champions that originally aired on 1/27/2025

The Final Jeopardy question in the category “World Capitals” was:

Home to more than 400,000, it’s the only world capital in the “Roaring Forties” latitudes

Today’s ToC contestants are: 5x champ Alison Betts, a writer & creative exec. orig. from San Jose, CA; 4x champ Will Wallace, a game design director from Austin, TX; and 3x champ Rishabh Wuppalapati, a Univ. of Pennsylvania student from Vernon Hills, IL.

Round 1 Categories: Lakes of America – Game Time – Special Days – “Ch” as in Champ – Broken – Hell’s Kitchen, the Musical

Alison found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Lakes of America” under the $800 clue on the 1st pick of the round. Nobody was on the board. Alison bet $1,000 and thought it was the Adirondacks. That was WRONG.

Northwest of Allentown, Beltzville Lake is a popular fishing spot in this mountain range show

WHAT ARE THE POCONOS?

Will finished in the lead with $3,800. Alison and Rishabh were tied in second with $2,200. All clues were shown.

Continue to the original recap with the rest of the game, more information about Final Jeopardy! and 2 additional triple stumpers.

These are the stumpers that are on page 2 of the original recap:

LAKES OF AMERICA ($1000) Named for a Native American people, this Arizona lake is found within Tonto National Forest

BROKEN ($1000) Modern medicine says broken heart syndrome can be triggered by grief & may lead to this, congestion from fluid in the lungs

HELL’S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL (Alicia Keys presents the clues) ($200) In Hell’s Kitchen, you don’t need a Stein or a Strad to make music; Ali’s love interest plays drums on buckets and she joins in for this song that says she’s a flame (sung: You can try, but you’ll never forget her name / She’s on top of the world / Hottest of the hottest girls, say

($400) Practically a character itself, the setting of much of the show is Manhattan Plaza, the real life building where I grew up among many artists hoping to make it, just a block east to Eighth Ave, the edge of this district

($600) A new song about opening up the world, “Kaleidoscope” was the theme song of this sporting event in 2024, and in late August Shoshana Beam made the trip from “Hell’s Kitchen” to Queens to sing at the opening night

($800) Along with new songs, the show re-imagines some of my classics, like this breakout hit from 2001 about a love with so much pleasure and so much pain; it has new instrumentation and a new seductive tone and it’s sung by a dude (sung by the dude: “Lovin’ you darlin’, makes me so confused”

LITERARY CHARACTERS ($2000) He’s the aging butler who narrates & reflects upon his life in “The Remains of the Day”

IT’S GOT A MOTOR ($2000) An electric motor powers this part of a refrigerator that condenses low-pressure coolant into high-pressure gas

CELEBRITY MEMOIRS ($1600) Wondering whose big hairy arms are on the cover of this Tina Fey bestseller? They belong to hand model & actor Joe Rosario

($2000) Among those he writes about in his family memoir, “The Friday Afternoon Club”, are late sister Dominique & Aunt Joan Didion