Final Jeopardy: World Capitals (1-27-25)
Here are some more clues from the 1/27/2025 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.
LAKES OF AMERICA ($1000) Named for a Native American people, this Arizona lake is found within Tonto National Forest
BROKEN ($1000) Modern medicine says broken heart syndrome can be triggered by grief & may lead to this, congestion from fluid in the lungs
HELL’S KITCHEN, THE MUSICAL (Alicia Keys presents the clues) ($200) In Hell’s Kitchen, you don’t need a Stein or a Strad to make music; Ali’s love interest plays drums on buckets and she joins in for this song that says she’s a flame (sung: You can try, but you’ll never forget her name / She’s on top of the world / Hottest of the hottest girls, say
($400) Practically a character itself, the setting of much of the show is Manhattan Plaza, the real life building where I grew up among many artists hoping to make it, just a block east to Eighth Ave, the edge of this district
($600) A new song about opening up the world, “Kaleidoscope” was the theme song of this sporting event in 2024, and in late August Shoshana Beam made the trip from “Hell’s Kitchen” to Queens to sing at the opening night
($800) Along with new songs, the show re-imagines some of my classics, like this breakout hit from 2001 about a love with so much pleasure and so much pain; it has new instrumentation and a new seductive tone and it’s sung by a dude (sung by the dude: “Lovin’ you darlin’, makes me so confused”
LITERARY CHARACTERS ($2000) He’s the aging butler who narrates & reflects upon his life in “The Remains of the Day”
IT’S GOT A MOTOR ($2000) An electric motor powers this part of a refrigerator that condenses low-pressure coolant into high-pressure gas
CELEBRITY MEMOIRS ($1600) Wondering whose big hairy arms are on the cover of this Tina Fey bestseller? They belong to hand model & actor Joe Rosario
($2000) Among those he writes about in his family memoir, “The Friday Afternoon Club”, are late sister Dominique & Aunt Joan Didion
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: “CH” AS IN CHAMP
($200) A somewhat formal word for a bedroom, or the area of a firearm that holds the ammunition
($400) The border between East & West Germany featured Alpha & Bravo these as well as a more famous one
($600) On her marriage to Prince Albert in 1840, Queen Victoria received a 1,250-pound wheel of this cheese as a wedding gift
($800) Rather than presidents, many universities have these top officials
($1000) A veil or facescreen called a yashmak is often worn in public with this full-length garment for Muslim women
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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I didn’t mention this yesterday out of adherence for this site’s rules. Anyways, regarding the ‘It’s Got A Motor Category’, a clicking sound does not necessarily indicate a defective starter motor. In my experience, a clicking sound would usually result in either a defective starter solenoid or a battery that had lost its charge. For one, a starter solenoid contains electrical contactors which energize the series wound starter motor. In many cases, those contactors become carbonized over time, and hence won’t deliver sufficient voltage to that high torque starter motor. In fact, I have only run across defective starter motors in about 20% of the cases, and I have changed many car starters through the years.
Tough final, I chose Washington. 2/3 on DDs, middle one tripped me up. First one wasn’t so tough, thought Alison would get it. Was good to see her again, she’s a real charmer. After her first appearance, she posted on FB that she’d just been laid off from her job at a movie studio as her televised run began.
Knew the “Moving Day” female painter, the Queens sporting event (I was raised near there), and the Tina Fey book.
Are wild cards not a thing in this ToC?
Nope, Howard. 6 winners from the QF matches. Then Adriana Harneyer, Isaac Hirsch and Drew Basile are the other 3 for the SF matches. Then 3 final matches.
Thanks for the confirmation. I saw on the J! site that the final is first to win 3 matches, so that could be as many as seven games.
It was another fantastic game, and I performed about average. During the first round, the ‘Lakes of America’ category was a bummer, and the last category was no better. Even worse, a tough FJ to boot. Well, I first thought of Washington D.C., and then went with Moscow during the closing seconds.. Yeah, I was aware that there were some several million residents in Moscow, but I wasn’t going to score a run anyways.
Fun Fact: The last time Will Wallace was on, he lost on a Monday. Today, he wins on a Monday. At least, he redeemed himself on that specific day of the week.
The week begins with a triple stumper since today’s final was tough due to a pesky geography clue.