Final Jeopardy: Ancient Geography (8-7-25)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: Semifinal #3 of the 2025 Tournament of Champions that originally aired on 2/6/2025

The Final Jeopardy question in the category “Ancient Geography” was:

Wadi al-Malekat in Arabic, this site near a similar and better known location was the burial place of Nefertari and others

The players in the last semifinal match of the 2025 Tournament of Champions are: 7x champ Drew Basile, a grad student from Birmingham, MI; Champions Wild Card 2nd place winner Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, HI; and 3x champ Neilesh Vinjamuri, a software engineer from Lionville, PA.

Ken announced that he was going to be addressing the Drews by their last names.

Round 1 Categories: Stocking the Cabinet – The Western Hemisphere – Legendary Tweets – Kind of Blue Pop Culture – Library Glossary – Ends in “Ff”

Basile found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Western Hemisphere” under the $800 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $800, $1,200 more than Goins in second place. Basile bet $1,000 and said Yukon. That was WRONG.

The name of this territory means “our land” in an Inuit language show

WHAT IS NUNAVUT?

Goins finished in the lead with $4,800. Neilesh was second with $2,000 and Basile was last with $800. 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:

THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE ($600) The Grande St. Lucian is one of more than 15 of these Caribbean resorts for couples in love

LEGENDARY TWEETS ($800) “Oh. My. God. I spend my day cleaning & vacuuming & sanitizing everything in the house. I have become Danny Tanner”

KIND OF BLUE POP CULTURE ($1000) “Hollywood Sadcore” has been used to describe this artist, as well as her music video for “Blue Jeans”

LIBRARY GLOSSARY ($200) 2 essential types of call numbers are Dewey decimal & this classification system abbreviated L.C.

($800) Also a Triple Crown racehorse, it’s a reference to a book or magazine including publication date, author & so on

ENDS IN “FF” ($400) It can mean to mock someone, or to eat voraciously

THE ARTS ($2000) This pioneering photographer titled his iconic photo of garment worker Ella Watson “American Gothic”

NEWISH WORDS & PHRASES ($000) Involving a paper container,
this phrase refers to what someone is after not selling that bad investment, now even worse

($1200) Meaning perfectly acceptable, this word from “Simpsons” fame made it into Merriam-Webster in 2023

FUNNY BOY IS AN ACTOR NOW ($1600) On film in the ’70s this stand-up legend made comedies like “Silver Streak” but also the Marxist auto worker drama “Blue Collar”