Final Jeopardy: Literature & Sickness (8-18-25)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: The first quarterfinal in the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament that originally aired on 2/17/2025. The 15 matches in this tournament will take us through the rest of the hiatus.

The Final Jeopardy question in the category “Literature & Sickness” was:

Still around today, this strep infection that causes a rash has terrible effects in “Little Women” & the “Little House on the Prairie” books

Jeopardy! kicks off its 2025 Invitational Tournament today. The players in QF #1 are: 38x champ Matt Amodio, a quantitative researcher from New York, NY; 8x champ Hannah Wilson, a yarn store owner from Chicago, IL; and 5x champ (Fleming) & 4x champ (Trebek) Doug Molitor, a novelist orig. from Altadena, CA.

Round 1 Categories: We’re Talkin’ Baseball – This & That – 2-word Rhymes – Clothes Minded – Novel Title Characters – The President is in Trouble

Hannah found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “2-Word Rhymes” under the $1,000 clue on the 10th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $4,000, $1,800 more than Matt in second place. Hannah made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.

Magic phrase that’s also a Kurt Vonnegut book title show

WHAT IS “HOCUS POCUS”?

Hannah finished in the lead with $9,600. Matt was second with $6,800 and Doug was last with $800. All clues were shown.

Continue to the original recap with the rest of the game and more information about Final Jeopardy!

Here are 4 triple stumpers. Another 3 stumpers were in the Sneak Peek clues.

THIS & THAT ($800) In a car engine the radiator dissipates heat & this other device circulates the coolant through the engine

PHILOSOPHY ($000) 18th c. esthetics used this adjective for things awesome, not just pretty; Edmund Burke called it “the strongest of all the passions”

2-WORD RHYMES ($600) It’s a hip way to say a convertible as mentioned in the opening salvo of “Bad & Boujee”

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES ($1200) In 2005 a new dwarf planet was announced; it was nicknamed Xena & the 10th planet before astronomers settled on this name

SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: ALBUM FILL IN THE BLANK (Note: ___ = 1 word)
($400) Lil Wayne’s last name & the top-selling album in the U.S. of 2008: “Tha ___ III”
($800) Justin Timberlake, seeing clearly in 2013: “The ___/___ Experience”
($1200) Prince & the New Power Generation with a bejeweled pair in 1991: “___ & ___”
($1600) Kanye’s 2010 album with “Power” & “Runaway”: “My ___ ___ ___ Fantasy”
($2000) Post Malone goin’ country in 2024: “F-1 ___”

SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show