Final Jeopardy: Historic Statements (1-17-25)
Here are some more clues from the 1/17/2025 Jeopardy! game. Please don’t put the answers to these clues in the comments so people who missed the game can have a chance to answer them. It is okay to refer to them by category and clue value or by part of the clue.
The contestants missed 2 clues in RHYME TIME:
($200) Snow White’s beardless dwarf, feeling gloomy
($400) An impoverished British man, fellow or guy
($600) Heated anger in the “Show-Me” state
($800) Dire predicament faced by a cavalier
($1000) A surgeon who watches over you while you take tests
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: DARLING, YOU SPOKE FRENCH
($200) You told me you’d love me to your dernier souffle, not your last puffed egg dish, but your last this
($400) I swoon when you describe the clair de lune, this, shimmering on the water
($600) I’m glad you adore my sourire, this, also the title in Quebec of a horror movie with Sosie Bacon
($800) When you quote “La Vie en Rose” with “des nuits d’amour à plus finir”, these “never to end”… dim the lights
($1000) Ma chère, you made me the happiest man on earth when you said “oui” at the sight of this, une bague de fiancailles
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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Good game, though Will was mostly out of it in the second half I did poorly, getting only 1 DD and blanking on Final, and getting only the “sourire” stumper. I’m still pretty decent en francais 55 years after my last class.
After everything I wrote yesterday, Adam went and contradicted me by betting the farm on Final. Smart people make an inordinate number of faux pas on FJ wagers.
Wow, what a good competitive game! As for me, I performed a tad below average, and how could anyone have made sense from that rather cryptic statement in FJ? Well, I simply took a stab at it, and went with Henry VIII.
Yes, it’s really too bad that those two men couldn’t have settled their differences in a peaceful manner.
A lot of people know about those statements, Rick. Here’s a link to a video of the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society’s speech at Weehawken on the anniversary of the duel last year. Pendleton, Hamilton’s second, claimed that the first thing Hamilton said when he regained consciousness was “Pendleton knows I did not mean to fire at Col. Burr the first time.” I’ve always found that hard to believe.
I wonder who Adam meant by “Baldwin”
James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time.”
Oh! Duh
Thanks, Howard
That may be the case VJ, but none of the contestants came up with the correct response either.
In addition, that statement was rather ambiguous as it could be interpreted in a number of ways. In fact, I took it as some reference to a “sexual flame”, and which was why I went with Henry VIII. Yes, that response went nowhere, but given the clues, it was understandable.
Like everyone else, I think Adam’s wager was bad. I don’t agree with “but he didn’t know because he was in the green room”. Just use your head, and use statistics to your advantage. I mean, if Marco knew to wager zero, them Adam should have known something similar.
Regardless, I was 2/3 on DD, and missed FJ. I didn’t have a real clue. I did, bien sûr, mais oui, run the French category!
I was kinda hoping someone would get sourire mixed up with souris 🤣🤣🤣 I would have loved seeing Ken’s reaction
My favorite opera is Die Fledermaus. Easy transliteration – “flying mouse”. But, in French: “la chauve-souris”. Again, “flying mouse “? Nope.
“The Bald Mouse “!!
And we got our third triple stumper this week resulted our fifth losing week in the final this season.
I feel like he should have known that 18600 was good enough for a wild card spot
I feel like Will Weiss and his 2 opponents want to nail Alexander Hamilton with a hammer, and stick him to the wall. That along with Benedict Arnold from 2012, and Major John Andre from 2011.
Semifinalists:
Marko Saric: $24,400
Joey DeSana: $24,000
Drew Goins: $23,400
Evan Dorey: $20,600
Will Yancey: $13,800
Wildcards:
Mehal Shah: $19,600
Jay Fisher: $15,400
Jen Feldman: $8,200
Paul Clauson: $8,000
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Stevie Ruiz: $5,199
Adam Hersh: $0 ($18,600)
Eamonn Campbell $0 ($9,600)
Davey Morrison: $0 ($8,800)
Will Weiss: $0 ($5,400)
Aiden Orzech: -$2,400
I like Will’s wager in FJ! because that was his only chance of making it to the semifinals as a wild card. But for some stupid reason, Adam wagered everything and I don’t like that wager at all. It’s a horrible wager. He should have wagered 0 to guarantee a wild card spot but too bad he was locked into the green room all day. Jen and Paul are lucky, they have been waiting all week long to see if their scores are good enough to advance to the semifinals and they did.
Like you, I like Will’s wager. He did the right thing. It just didn’t work out. I don’t Adam’s wager, because he should have wagered 0 and guaranteed himself a Wild-Card spot. He didn’t know that, because he was locked in the Green Room all day. At least, Marko played it safe and won. Better luck next time with this tournament format.
This is the first time we have wild card semifinalists since the professors tournament.