Final Jeopardy: The Oscars (10-13-25)

Here are some more clues from the 10/13/2025 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.

INTERSECTING WITH INSECTS ($1000) It was big news when the Mediterranean type of this was found in Florida, a state that values its orange groves, April 6, 1929

“EZ” DOES IT ($600) On back day or on shoulder day? An age-old debate amongst gym rats over when to train this muscle for optimum rippage

BACKHANDED COMPLIMENTS ($600) You’ve got a great tan for someone who professionally plays this Blizzard sci-fi P.C. game with Zerg & Terrans

($800) Neat, bro! You’re going to camp at Outeroo at this Southern music festival in June–I’d go but I enjoy bathing

IN GOOD COMPANY ($1600) It’s the parent company of Ralphs, Harris Teeter, & Smith’s Food & Drug supermarkets

LATIN LESSON ($2000) This Latin phrase refers to a depiction in art of Christ wearing a crown of thorns

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: BACKHANDED COMPLIMENTS
($400) John McPhee’s book about a 1968 match between white guy Clark Graebner & him calls his backhand a touchstone of modern tennis
($800) Type of backhand pioneered in Women’s Tennis by Peaches Bartkowicz, whose “terrific marksmanship” the NYT noted in 1965
($1200) Rod Laver Had a great topspin backhand; rival Ken Rosewall astered this opposite type (not “bottomspin”)
($1600) Max Vilander praised the versatile backhand of this Wimbledon champ, given a knighthood in 2016 before he turned 30
($2000) “The best backhand in the world,” said John McEnroe about
Justine Henin, a star from this country in the early 2000s
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