Final Jeopardy: Brand Names (10-28-25)

Here are some more clues from the 10/28/2025 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.

LOCKS & KEYS ($400) After singer Connie Francis was attacked in a hotel room, a fan designed a now-standard type of door lock with this for a key

($1000) From French, it’s the term for a lock that’s recessed inside a door, as well as for the pocket in which it’s installed

DEATH? NO, THANK YOU! (MOVIE EDITION) ($200) Kylo Ren throws the kitchen sink of weaponry at this character,t but as the dust settles, he just flicks some off his shoulder, NBD

PUBLISHING PROS ($400) A relative of Abner, Frank, with this last name famous in publishing, was given the nickname “Effendi” by Rudyard Kipling

($800) Founded in 1913, this Ivy League press has put out books like Stephen Jay Gould’s “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory”

($2000) It’s not Dunder but this name that comes before Mifflin Harcourt in the name of a publishing house

GEOLOGY ($1200) About 45% of the terrestrial globe is these flat elevated landforms that can be formed by plate shifts or by volcanoes

($1600) This extension of the sea floor at the edge of a land mass averages 40 miles in width but stretches to 930 miles off Siberia

“AP” EXAM ($2000) It’s an old term for a stroke, but it can also mean extreme anger

The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern

SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: A NOVEL SETTING
($200) Dany says “My speech may be Tyroshi, and my garb Dothraki, but I am of “this continent, “of the sunset kingdoms'”
($400) “Do you stand there, Scarlett O’Hara, and tell me that” this place– “that land– doesn’t amount to anything?”
($600) In A Confederacy of Dunces”, “There may be a few costumes. That’s what’s so wonderful about” this city”
($800) Jack Torrance learns “one reason” this hotel “lost so much money lies in the depreciation that occur each winter”; yup, that’s 1 reason
($1000) Her last novel 1940’s “Sapphira and the Slave Girl”, is set in Virginia, not frontier Nebraska

ANSWERS: show