Final Jeopardy: 18th Century Lit (12-25-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (12/25/2025) in the category “18th Century Lit” was:
In this work, “the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide-and-seek in my hair”
In the first of two final matches in the 2025 Second Chance Tournament (Week 2), the finalists are: Melanie Hirsch, a lawyer from Silver Spring, MD; Michelle Tsai, a tutor orig. from Honolulu, HI; and Guy Branum, a writer and comedian from West Hollywood, CA.
May you all have a wonderful Christmas day, and are able to catch up with this match if it’s preempted.
Round 1 Categories: History on TV – On the Bookshelf – Fast Food – Give Me a Ring – The Movies – Homonymbly Yours
Melanie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “On the Bookshelf” under the $600 clue on the 4th pick of the round. She had $200. Michelle and Guy were tied at $800. Melanie bet the $1,000 allowance and she was RIGHT.
Anthony Swofford’s experiences in the first Gulf War led to his memoir called this, also the nickname of a Marine show
Guy finished in the lead with 6,000. Melanie was second with $5,600 and Michelle was last with $4,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: People & Places – The Kaiser’s College of Musical Knowledge – Science & Nature – Playing the Numbers – Comedians on TV – Tough 8-Letter Words
Michelle found the first Daily Double in “Playing the Numbers” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick. She was in the lead with $6,500 now, $800 more than Melanie in second place. Michelle bet it all and she was RIGHT.
“A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy’ was 9th on a list totaling this number of proposals in 1918 show
4 clues later, Michelle got the last Daily Double in “People & Places” under the $1,200 clue. In the lead with $16,400, she had $13,600 more than Melanie in second place. Michelle bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
Outside of India, Canada has one of the largest populations of followers of this religion founded by Guru Nanak show
Michelle finished in the lead with $26,400. Guy was next with $8,000 and Melanie was in third place with $6,000. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “GULLIVER’S TRAVELS”
“Gulliver’s Travels” was published in 1726 by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), an Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman. The novel was intended as political satire but ended up being classified as children’s literature, and has been the source of many cartoons and films.
In Part I, a shipwrecked Gulliver finds himself in Lilliput, where the 6-inch tall denizens fear him and tie him up. Gulliver wins their trust by helping them win a war against real enemies. He also allows their tiny kids to play hide-and-seek in his hair, as shown in the above video.
Melanie got it right. She it all and finished with $12,000.
Guy got it, too. He bet it all and finished with $16,000.
Michelle thought it was Rapunzel. She lost $5,400 and had $19,200 left. Tomorrow, the contestants will be adding these amounts to their final scores to determine this week’s winner.
A triple stumper from each round:
HISTORY ON TV ($400) America learned of this disaster from Al Michael & Tim McCarver covering the World Series at Candlestick Park in 1989
PEOPLE & PLACES ($2000) The John Randle Centre, a lively & colorful museum in Lagos, celebrates the history & culture of this people
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “THOSE ZANY ANCIENT ROMANS”
In the 20s B.C. the Emperor’s sister Octavia had a sitcom-worthy home including the boy & girl twin children of this man & woman show
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Terrific game, Michelle really benefited from those DDs, as did comedian Guy from the comedy on TV category. I find these players to be very smart and likable. Overall I did pretty well. Knew the first DD but spouted out “Leatherneck” in error. 2nd was easy for me, 3rd left me cold.
Had no clue on Final so I said “Gulliver’s Travels” just to have an answer. I was surprised no one knew what event happened during the 1989 World Series. The prime # was gettable, the end of an article number a toughie, but I knew that one because many decades ago I was a newspaper journalism student and reporter. It’s also the name of a ‘corny movie starring Jack Webb.
The show didn’t come on till 1230 am, so I just watched it midday Friday.
Thanks, guys. I thought it was pretty funny in this game when Ken told writer & comedian Guy “You found your category!” while Guy was running through the clues in the Comedian category. Duh! 🤣🤣
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you, VJ. Thanks again for all you do!
Merry Christmas to you VJ! This week’s Second Chance is certainly feeling like the holiday spirit and so far all three players are certainly feeling the holiday spirit. It is very close heading into Day 2 tomorrow.