Final Jeopardy: Medieval Europeans (9-3-25)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: The first final in the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament that originally aired on 3/5/2025.

The Final Jeopardy question in the category “Medieval Europeans” was:

This mathematician of Pisa studied in Algeria & later wrote a book introducing Arabic numerals to a larger audience

The finalists in the first final game of the 2025 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament are: Matt Amodio, a quantitative researcher from New York, NY; Roger Craig, an applied scientist from Arlington, VA; and Juveria Zaheer, a psychiatrist from Whitby, Ontario.

Round 1 Categories: All the Non-Human Book Characters – Notable Names – Feeling Punchy – Spitting Fire – Recent Movies – Add a Letter

Juveria found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Feeling Punchy” under the $600 clue on the 20th pick of the round. She was tied for second place with Matt at $3,400, $600 less than Roger’s lead. Juveria bet it all and went with roundhouse. That was WRONG.

A powerful punch, it’s likely named for the agricultural practice of cutting dried grass show

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Roger finished in the lead with $5,200. Matt was second with $14,600 and Juveria was last with negative $600. All clues were shown.

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

Triple stumpers:

ALL THE NON-HUMAN BOOK CHARACTERS ($200) In the sci-fi novel “Children of Time”, humans must vie with Portia & Bianca, genetically juiced “jumping” types of this arachnid

EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY ($400) The D’Arcy Concession, which led to the creation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., later BP, was signed in this Asian city in 1901

The players missed one clue in SPITTING FIRE:
($200) In Exodus the angel of the Lord appeared & this “burned with fire, and” it “was not consumed”
($400) 1st century scholar Shammai said all 8 candles should be lit on the first night of this, then decreasing one per night
($600) “Oh, my god, he’s gonna say it!… Avengers assem–!” No, Deadpool, Chris Evans is Johnny, not Cap, & says this catchphrase instead
($800) The Food Network’s recipe for this includes a pound of a certain fruit, vanilla ice cream & 1/3 cup of golden rum to fire up
($1000) It’s the title of a 1962 Nabokov novel as well as the 999-line poem within it

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