Final Jeopardy: Palindromic Dates (7-29-25)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: Quarterfinal #2 of the 2025 Tournament of Champions that originally aired on 1/28/2025

The Final Jeopardy question in the category “Palindromic Dates” was:

This 7-digit date saw the premiere of Handel’s “Water Music”

In QF #2 of the 2025 Tournament of Champions, the players are: 4x champ Amy Hummel, an ER doctor from Milwaukee, WI; 4x champ Grant DeYoung, a delivery driver from Prescott, AZ.; and 3x champ David Erb, a puzzle designer from Seattle, WA.

Round 1 Categories: World War II Facts – Foreign Words & Phrases – Noises – Pop Music’s Missing Links – Literary Swine – Uncle Ken’s Casa De Pre-owned Vehicles

Amy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “World War II Facts” under the $800 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. She was in last place with negative $600, nobody else was on the board. Amy bet $1,000 and couldn’t come up with it so she was WRONG.

Force K6, made up of Muslims from the Punjab, was among British units evacuated from this French seaport in Spring 1940 show

WHAT IS DUNKIRK?

David finished in the lead with $3,000. Grant was second with $2,800 and Amy was last 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:

WORLD WAR II FACTS ($600) Vasily Zaitsev killed 225 people at this 1942 battle & later was played by Jude Law in a 2001 film

NOISES ($1000) The makers of the Inspire implant measure its success partly in reduction of this noise

LITERARY SWINE ($600) Gub-Gub the pig is this man’s friend & accompanies him on his overseas adventures

($1000) Jodie, a phantom pig with red eyes, shows up in this Jay Anson book about a terrifying possessed house in suburban New York

UNCLE KEN’S CASA DE PRE-OWNED VEHICLES ($800) Okay, okay, Ralph Nader called this model that debuted in 1960 a one-car accident, but ain’t it cute

A WINGED CATEGORY ($1600) The Tony Award is named for this actress, director & co-founder of the American Theater Wing

($2000) Born in Lebanon, he wrote “The Broken Wings”, a poetic novel set in Beirut & first published in Arabic in 1912

FROM TV SHOW TO FILM ($1200) Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson filled the title roles in this 2004 film based on a 1970s cop show

($2000) When this movie based on an ’80s show begins “Numb/Encore” plays over a scene at a Florida nightclub

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES ($2000) Plato had his Academy & Aristotle had this school, the ruins of which were discovered in Athens in 1996

IN COMPATIBILITY ($400) It’s pretty obvious there’s one in the cleu

($800) It somehow means both pleasant, mild weather & foolish or insane

($1200) “Jaws” taught everyone that this, “as you know, means friendship”