Final Jeopardy: Travel USA (10-22-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (10/22/2025) in the category “Travel USA” was:
The website for this hotel includes mini-biographies of Harold Ross, Edna Ferber & Alexander Woollcott
New champ Tom Devlin, an attorney from Washington, D.C., won $22,599 yesterday in a very suspenseful game. In Game 2, he takes on: Katy Lentz, a university brand manager from Mauldin, SC; and Emmanuel Calivo, an airport customer service agent from San Jose, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Happy 80th, United Nations! – Musical Theater – On a First Name Basis – War Books – 3 of the Same Letter – Some Clowns Mean Well
Emmanuel found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Happy 80th, United Nations!” under the $600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in last place with $200, $1,600 less than Tom’s lead. Emmanuel bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
Since 1948 more than 4,000 of these U.N. personnel have given their lives in the line of duty show
Tom finished in the lead with $9,000. Emmanuel was second with $3,000 and Katy was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The 18th Century – “OI”! – Good as Gold – Who Speaketh in the King James Bible? – Television – Friends in Dry Places
Emmanuel found the first Daily Double in “Who Speaketh in The King James Bible” under the $1,600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in last place with $4,600 now, $11,200 less than Tom’s lead. Emmanuel bet $2,600 and said Thomas. That was WRONG.
“I do not know the man” show
Emmanuel got the last Daily Double in “Friends in Dry Places” under the $1,600 clue on the 20th pick of the round. He was in last place with $4,000 now, $12,200 less than Tom’s lead. Emmanuel bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
I’m the guy to show you the Arid Intermountain West region bordered by the Rockies on the east & these 2 ranges on the west show
Tom finished in the lead with a runaway $20,600. Emmanuel was in second place with $9,400 and Katy was last with $5,800. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE ALGONQUIN?
Harold Ross, Alexander Woolcott and Edna Ferber were 3 members of the literati who met regularly at the Algonquin during the 1920s. Celebrated for their rapier wit, the group was dubbed “the Vicious Circle”. Their most well-known member was Dorothy Parker, famous for satire and sarcasm. The Algonquin Hotel features a page with pictures and “mini-biographies” dedicated to the memory of 10 members of the Algonquin Round Table.
The last time they had a Final Jeopardy! clue about this group was on 12/3/2019, and it was a triple stumper.
Katy thought it might be the Chelsea. That didn’t lose anything, as she stood pat on her $5,800.
Emmanuel went to the Plaza. That cost him $6,400 and left him with $3,000.
Tom got it right. He won the game with $20,600 since he didn’t bet a sou. Tom Devlin’s 2-day total is $43,199.
2 triple stumpers from GOOD AS GOLD:
($400) Aes signatum, ingots of this, were used as currency in Rome in the mid-first millennium B.C., a bit too late for the same-named age
($1600) Marco Polo wrote that this man made pieces of paper “pass current universally over all his kingdoms and provinces”
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “HISTORIC LETTERS”
A letter from him begins, “On the thirty-third day after I had left Cadiz, I reached the Indian Ocean” show
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How often does someone secure a lock game without having a shot at a single DD? Challengers were good, just not quite up to Tom’s level. Really didn’t know Final, but Algonquin was my educated guess. Dorothy Parker would have given it to me for sure.
Kinda surprised no one knew the 3-B Sinclair Lewis character or the ingots age. Totally shocked no one got that Final from two years ago.
Well, it wasn’t exactly the blow out I was hoping to see, but I agree that Tom’s runaway sans DDs was impressive. Also, Ken didn’t say Tom has a BIG lead. 🤣
I thought it was a little weird that they had a clue about an Algonquian word, but you probably only pick up on that when you know the FJ answer beforehand. Noel Coward was a member of the Round Table too, btw.