Final Jeopardy: Historic Homes (10-30-25)
Here are some more clues from the 10/30/2025 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.
POLYNESIA ($200) Tourism & the black type of these natural gems are big industries in the islands of French Polynesia
($400) Polynesia covers a large triangular area of the Pacific with this island group in the north as the apex
($600) From 1966 to 1996 France carried out a series of tests of these on Mururoa & Fangataufa in the Tuamotu archipelago this
($800) If you’re on this island in July, the competition of the Heiva Festival is a sight to behold in its city of Papeete this
JEANS ($600) Nothing came between then 15-year-old Brooke Shields & this brand in an ad that caused a stir
POPE-POURRI ($2000) This “Fair” French king wanted to keep excommunication out of Boniface VIII’s mouth after a 1303 affair known as the “Slap of Anagni”
AUDIO BOOKS ($800) This author narrates his 2024 book “Revenge of the Tipping Point”
THE OLDEN GLOBES ($1600) The Erdapfel from 1492 is the oldest extant globe; its cartography owes much to “Geographia” by this classical multi-hyphenate
($2000) In a 1603 one of these globes from Latin for sky, lush details include Taurus charging Orion
5-SYLLABLE WORDS ($1200) As opposed to culpable, in this type of homicide, the one who commits it has no criminal liability
IT’S A HOT ONE! ($1600) A landmark in this Southern city with an industrial legacy, Sloss Furnaces ran for decades turning ore into iron at 3,800 degrees
($2000) 1/3 of the USA’s 90 or so commercial nuclear reactors are BWRs, BW short for this, which probably happened in your kitchen today
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($200) Alpha, beta, gamma & delta Crucis are in this constellation that’s a big hit Down Under
($400) 2-1/2 times the height of Everest, Olympus Mons on this planet is the largest volcano in the solar system
($600) On May 14, 1973 the U.S. launched this first space station
($800) Recent research suggests that collapsars, rare types of these events, produce most the universe’s heavy elements
($1000) Charged particles from the solar wind colliding with atoms in the atmosphere create these impressive effects
ANSWERS: show
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LAME! This crew may have set a record for combination of wrong answers and triple stumpers. Final could be only Jefferson, how could two of them miss it? And too many players are writing things like “What Lee?” and omitting verbs, over and over. I got only the 2nd DD. “English” was a poor try at a Polynesian language (mine wasn’t much better–Tagalog). I wasn’t overjoyed by the sports guy getting an NFL category, although he didn’t run it.
So much money left unwon: the large “island” state with a giant arrow pointing at it; the black gem; northern island group; France’s tests; Papeete’s island; Brooke Shields’s jeans; and the southern industrial city; the Down Under constellation. Only the northern islands were the one I had to guess at and didn’t know.
Question: where are the multi-hyphens in the person’s name for that stumper? I don’t see it.
To clarify, I knew the name of Jefferson’s home, just didn’t mention it above. I vaguely remember visiting Mt Vernon in 1962.
Howard, multi-hyphenate is a reference to a person having multiple professions. In this case, the man was a mathematician, astronomer and geographer.
I don’t even want to know why they decided to phrase the clue that way.
Oh, my Polynesian heart was broken! Y’all know that I lived in Hawai’i, and my connection to that ZIP code so near to mine. I also visited outside Pape’ete for 12 days in November 2002. So, I was perfect in that category, a mirror of the contestants.
I was 3/3 on DD, and got FJ. Akin to Travis, it came to me nearly immediately, also. Likewise, I got about 1/3 the TS.
Once again, Ken made me laugh when he said to Aaron about the “Jewish educator and Baptist minister”!
Are you actually Jason Momoa, by any chance?
I wish, buddy!
I thought the final was pretty easy, came to me instantly. I also thought the contestants missed some easy clues, like the large island and black gem ones, for example.