Final Jeopardy: Animals (10-2-25)
Here are some more clues from the 10/2/2025 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.
NON-ENGLISH PLACE NAMES IN ENGLISH ($600) This region where Alexander the Great was born: Land of the Tall Ones
RELATIVE-ITY ($800) The only sibling Nobel Prize winners are the Tingergens: Nikolaas in 1973 for medicine & Jan in 1969 in this category’s debut
MEANS ($400) From the Greek for “harsh”, it’s a set of strict economic policies to control rising public debt
PREQUELS & SEQUELS ($2000) According to the title of Douglas Adams’ first sequel in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide” series, Milliways is this place
SHE’S A SAINT ($1600) Born in Peru in 1586, Isabel Flores de Oliva is better known by this name
HBCUs ($1600) Among the youngest historically black univs., this Valley State University is located in the heart of the Delta & Jerry Rice is an alumnus
GENERATIONAL TALENTS ($1600) “Generation” is a song by this artist with a perfect & somewhat Gershwin-esque one-word stage name for hip-hop
($2000) A tough act in films like “Girlfight”, she stood up for millennials when she narrated the documentary “The Revolution Generation”
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: WAYS
($200) Our handy little preposition vis is Latin for “way”; the via lactea was this in the sky
($400) This Jewish New Year led to the creation of Waze when Uri Levine wished there was info on the best way home to Tel Aviv after the holiday
($600) “Way” roads include Broadway, Highway & this kind with the simplified spelling that Melvil Dewey wanted for the New York State one
($800) It’s a 7-mile drive between these 2 towns in the corner of Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area established in 2009
($1000) The city of Tianjin has 5 great avenues, “Wu Da” this word that can be a road or a more spiritual way
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3/3 on DDs. The first was a challenge till I remembered that I recently learned that nation had a different capital. Got Final in about 3 seconds. Didn’t hurt that I grew up in NYC and visited the UN, or that I attended the 1973 Belmont in which Secretariat clinched the Triple Crown by 31 lengths and set a world record for 1.5 miles.
You had to be a real sports junkie to know Jerry Rice’s HBCU (the QB who threw him all those passes was Willie Totten). Other stumpers were nasty, although I knew the Chinese way from crosswords.
I was surprised they all went for fictional animals. I thought of Checkers and Rin Tin Tin before it dawned on me that it was a horse, of course.🤣
I went to a Catholic school that was named for the Peruvian saint. Last night, in fact, I was telling my granddaughter how the entire third grade in that school lived in mortal fear of Sister Vera.😲
I, too, went with “Rinnie” (Rin Tin Tin) , after first thinking Lassie, them realizing it was too early for her.
Me, personally, thought that this FJ was lacking some information, or, put another way, a little too esoteric. Maybe I’m just a little dim!