Final Jeopardy: International Geography (12-16-25)
Here are some more clues from the 12/16/2025 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.
IN MEMORIAM 2025 ($2000) Food Network fans were deeply saddened to hear of the passing of this chef who taught even the worst cooks in America some skills
YOU’LL NEED SOME INTELLIGENCE ($1600) In 2025 tech companies OpenAI, Softbank & Oracle launched this A.I. project that sounds like a portal to the heavens
SCIENCE ($2000) A colloid, with fine particles dispersed in liquid, is midway between a solution & this, a mixture with chunks
BEFORE & AFTER ($2000) A fossil human ancestor found in Indonesia, viewed as a perceived face suggested by dark & bright lunar areas this ANSWER: show
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: SOMETHING’S “OFF”
($200) Originally it meant away from a railway; these days, it mostly means away from your computer
($400) You use this phrase when you don’t want to be quoted for publication
($600) You may do it “to Buffalo” or to “this mortal coil”
($800) Mama Kelce hosted this in 2024 when the winning recipe was Mini Beef Wellingtons
($1000) In the Air Force song, these 8 words precede “climbing high into the sun”
ANSWERS: show
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I was 1/3 on DD and missed FJ. I said “Siberia”. That was a two level FJ. First was that it was Australia. But, then, since I’m not an Australia scholar, I would have said “Western Australia”. And, not for nothing, but, I can’t visualize 309k square miles.
And, just a tiny factoid: the Sakha Republic, in Siberia, is the largest first level subnational area in the world (Alaska is #7). Second is Western Australia.
Another close game. Ivanna came on so strong, and was a second or two away from blowing that creampuff of a DD in 2nd round. Something made me think Australia for Final, so I said what the heck, I’ll go with NSW,
First round categories must have been in my wheelhouse, because I was rattling off clue after clue, including the not-impossible first DD and the Norwegian skater. Second round was murderous other than that last DD.
When I read the final clue this morning, my mind went straight to what seemed like the likely continent and this folk song started playing in my head. It’s called Lime Juice Tub.
Here we are in New South Wales,
Shearing sheep as big as whales,
With leather necks and daggy tails,
And fleece as tough as rusty nails.
Of course, I didn’t expect any of them to know that song. It’s from one of my cool album finds in the library. But I did think at least one of them would go to the right continent!
I LOVE this!! I know I’ve heard it somewhere in my youth but I can’t remember where. Thanks, VJ, for the great memory
I’m really happy that you love that song, Sam. The album I had was William Clauson Sings Waltzing Matilda And Other Australian Songs. I played that so much, Waltzing Matilda skipped. lol. Someone put the whole album online a long time ago but now, the only place I see it is on Apple Music or eBay.
I love folk songs!