Final Jeopardy: Olympic Host Cities (10-29-25)
Here are some more clues from the 10/29/2025 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.
WHAT’S YOUR GOVERNMENT NAME? ($1000) Back when there was a West Germany, these 2 words preceded “of Germany” in the official name of the country
X, Y, Z ABBREVIATIONS ($200) A high number of these, XBH, would be a great stat for a baseball player
THIS OLD OPERA HOUSE ($1200) Luciano Pavarotti’s U.K. debut, as this caddish Lt. in “Madam Butterfly” at Belfast’s Grand Opera House, made him a star overnight
THE JUDGE HAS SPOKEN ($1600) In McCulloch v. Maryland, John Marshall opined, “The power to” do this “involves the power to destroy”
LUCKY “SEVEN” ($1600) A speech in “As You Like It” defines this— it includes infant, schoolboy & soldier
TV DINNERS ($1200) A perplexed John Cleese, playing this title hotelier, says we’re “out of Waldorfs” after a request for a certain salad
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: A HISTORIC GAME OF CLUE
($200) 4 men, with swords, in Canterbury (as the victim verbally accepted death defending Christ’s church)
($400) Charles Guiteau, with a British bulldog revolver, at a D.C. rail station
($600) Jack McCall, with a gun, in a Deadwood saloon (with the victim holding aces & 8s)
($800) A bodyguard named Pausanias, with a dagger, in 336 B.C. (but maybe at the behest of son Alexander, soon to be Great)
($1000) Charlotte Corday, with a knife hidden in her clothes, in a Paris bathtub
ANSWERS: show
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Missed all of it except Final, which I got right away. Knew the Games were canceled in 1940-44, so it was a quick step backward in time to the Hitler/Jesse Owens 1936 Games. Struck out on the DDs. Said “The Plague” for the 2nd. I think we read part or all of it in HS French class (“La Peste”).
The Andrew Lloyd Weber musical was the worst show I’ve ever seen, so that one was easy. XBH was a softball for any baseball fan. Got the hotelier after more than the alloted time to respond.
I see Katie is from Lake Oswego. Its city line is 2 miles from my home. We get a fair number of J! contestants.
How many times did you see the Webber production? Could it have just been the specific version of the show you saw? I ask, because I liked it. I nearly wore out the soundtrack cassette.
Huit Clos, in French. But, in French, that doesn’t mean “no exit” – it is an aside to the judge, like when attorneys ask to approach.
I’ve never seen the Cleese TV show, but I got that one!
I didn’t know it was all singing. Might as well have been an opera, which I could never sit through. It was a free ticket, and I should have bailed. Same with the Les Mis movie. I lasted about 15 minutes on that one. But please don’t cry for me,
Ah, now I copy. See, although we have many things in common, this is where we differ. My most favorite show ever, even more than Phantom of the Opera, is 42nd Street, “the musical for people who love musicals”.
You have the love of musicals in common with me, Jason. My kids love musicals, too. I took them to see Les Miserables in NYC and they loved it. I didn’t want to spoil my memory of it so I never watched the movie.
Also took them to see Jesus Christ Superstar live. So great. I watch that film every year at Easter.
I was 2/3 on DD and got FJ. I wasn’t paying attention so I gave myself a miss on the Sultanate.
The way I see it, Olympic host cities are low hanging fruit – easy to study and recall, like “What is the first city to host the summer Olympics 3 times, with the most recent in the 21st century?”
And, because it was a clue, and a DD at that, I have to plug my podcast. It is the “No Exit Experience”. Go to Facebook, YouTube, or Twitch, and look for “Think Twice Radio “, then”The No Exit Experience “. We’re live around 5pm Saturdays (Eastern time), but always available for replay. One problem is, we can’t start until our engineer is ready; however, he will be ready. and say nothing. So, we’re all sitting there like dummies.
You might hear some foul language, but that’s a feature, not a bug. If you are live, you can send in comments during the show.
Oh, one other thing – I had to laugh when Ken roasted Aaron with that $200 baseball clue, with them both being baseball fans!
Eli was giving Aaron a run for the money until he bet the store in one DD. Unfortunately, he couldn’t come up with the correct response, and then lost everything. Well, that DD was a bummer as I couldn’t come up with anything either. As for me, I was somewhat under par during the game, but got the FJ.
Yes, it was a shame Eli forgot the category on that DD. He might have worked it out.