Final Jeopardy: Geographic Naming (11-10-25)
Here are some more clues from the 11/10/2025 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.
PUTTING IN YOUR 2 CENTS, INTERNATIONALLY ($1000) Next time you’re in Tehran, exchange that 2 cents for 842 this give or take
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND WITH YOUR OLD PAL GROVER ($800) Imagine being there on October 28th, 1896 when President Cleveland spoke to dedicate the Statue of Liberty; first, the President had to wait until this in red, white & blue was pulled from Lady Liberty’s face
($1000) Grover Cleveland is the only president born in the great state of NJ; his birthplace used to be a manse which means that his father had this job in the lovely town of Caldwell
POETS & POETRY ($1600) His often anthologized poems
include “The Flea”, The Good-Morrow” &, of course, “Death Be Not Proud”
THE JAMES GANG ($1600) Mortally wounded in 1813, he said words to the effect of “tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship”
($2000) The White House’s original architect, he oversaw its rebuilding after it was torched by the British in 1814
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: POTPOURRI
($200) It’s best to avoid swallowing apple seeds, as they contain a chemical that degrades into a tiny amount of this poison
($400) Immortalized in a 1910 poem, a historic double play trio for the Chicago Cubs was Tinker to Evers to this player
($600) In 2023 for its 65th anniversary, this restaurant brought back its Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘n Fruity Combo
($800) In 1844, this American patented a process of curing rubber called vulcanization
($1000) She won a Nobel prize in 1983 for jumping genes
ANSWERS: show
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Good game, strong challengers, killer Final (at least for me). Liked how Matt gobbled up most of the sports-related clues. Sometimes they all go unanswered. I got only the 2nd DD. Knew the cello-playing multi-hyphenate, the Tehran currency (crossword word).
My take on the final wagers: Morgan could win no > $21600. Allegra more or less had to wager $11601, which she did. Therefore Matt’s wager should have been in the neighborhood of $6201, locking out Morgan if both he and she were correct on Final, and winning the game if Allegra missed, which she did. Had he done so, he’d have won with $9199. That was the winning strategy.
It was another fascinating game, and Allegra remained the Jeopardy champion despite flubbing the FJ. Well, I performed well above average in the game, but also flubbed the FJ.
IMHO, I wouldn’t have necessarily described ‘Queensland’ as a political unit, but rather as a self governing colony under the British Crown.
I thought the final was kinda tough, hard to get in thirty seconds. Once you know the answer it seems pretty obvious. “Political Unit” threw me off.
Travis, I didn’t pay any attention to political region in the clue, just thinking of them naming a place after Cook that ended up being named for Queen Victoria.
Years ago, we had a Sporcle quiz on Spoiler Talk that used the word ‘polity’ to describe a political unit. Rhonda and I had never seen that word before, or maybe never noticed it because afterwards, it started popping up all over the place.
Wow, that was quite a shocker to me. I honestly thought everyone would get FJ!
For me, it went Cook > Australia > Victoria > Queensland