Final Jeopardy: U.S.A. (10-21-25)
Here are some more clues from the 10/21/2025 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.
CELEBRITIES ($400) She found success in “Ray” & “She Hate Me” before a bout of “Scandal”
IN DA CLUB ($1600) You went down 18 stone steps to enter this club, the home of the Beatles at 10 Matthew Street in Liverpool
GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’ ($2000) In “Double Indemnity” by this author, Walter Huff thinks an accidental death insurance policy can result in a true Daily Double
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: CRUDITÉS
($200) To conceal the existence of new radar tech, the U.K. government spread a myth that eating these improved pilot eyesight
($400) The crunchy green stalks of this parsley cousin are what we usually eat, though the seeds can add flavor to soups & pickles
($600) These peppery root vegetables in the mustard family are low in calories & a favorite food of Fraggles
($800) In “Big” Tom Hanks comically chewed the kernels off this, which is eaten whole, not off the cob
($1000) This tuber with a name beginning with “J” is also known as the Mexican turnips & packs a watery crunch[/spoiler]
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I appreciate the info and your take on this, Jason. As to 202, I also picked it. I misunderstood the clue and thought they wanted the first 3. I knew 201 and 202 for sure. I applied for a job with Bell 🔔 that I didn’t get many phone calls ago. I was 16 and they told me to come back in a couple of years!
Anyway, 212 and 202 seem like logical choices if one isn’t acquainted with the why’s and wherefore’s of the system,
My mother-in-law worked for Pacific Telephone, or whatever it was called in the 50s and 60s, as an operator I believe. Probably in LA and not in Texas where she was born. One of her daughters worked there in the 70s and got some kind of lucrative buyout and hasn’t worked since.
Early on, it seemed like a quick blowout. Poor Elyse was sandwiched between two dynamos. I figured FJ was 212 (NYC) and 213 (LA) (I’ve lived in both places) but threw in 202 (DC only because I couldn’t think of Chicago’s. I have a close friend who lives in Chitown, but his is 773.
DDs weren’t too tough, but the first was the only one I got before the contestant answered it. Knew the Scandal actress; and the Beatles’ home club. I’d have to relinquish my dozen or so of their albums if I blew that one.
Dargan had some incredible luck with taking the lead there. Tom was just so lightning fast on the buzzer, I want to see him set more records
3/3 on DD and got FJ.It’s interesting that the two old guys both put 202. I have a special interest in the NANP, both because it’s numbers, and my mother worked at NY Telephone, eventually retiring from Verizon.
It was due to analog systems. That’s why the second number could only be 1 or 0. It wasn’t until digital systems came in that the second number could be higher. What’s also interesting is that, in the 90s, NYC created 917 expressly for pagers and cell phones. And, having lived in two of the 3 highest codes (808 and 809), that also makes me laugh. Here is another one: my ZIP code in Hawai’i was 96797. What if your handwriting is bad, and that second 7 is read as a 9? 96799 is — American Samoa, 2500 miles away!
That was the highest scoring game I’ve seen in my memory. I don’t recall James Holzhauer’s games, only the results after FJ. The first round was $20,000, and the second $60k. Incredible!
Concur, VJ – CRAZY game!!