Final Jeopardy: French Landmarks (12-22-25)
Here are some more clues from the 12/22/2025 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.
YOU SEEM TENSE ($200) As a verb, it means to vex someone mentally; as a noun, it’s a very unexpected defeat in a big game
($1000) Is it about you? The Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” is “tense and” this synonym, “and I can’t relax”
CROSSWORD CLUES “U” ($800) It keeps the hair off your neck (4 letters)
The players got all the clues in “HOT” LINES:
($200) Nelly resolves the title problem of this song with the solution: “so take off all your clothes”
($400) This song was aptly released in August 2019; one of the lines we can quote follows the title & says, “so you know she got it lit”
($600) In a 2004 No. 1 hit featuring Pharrell, Snoop Dogg gave this title command about one’s booty vis-à-vis the dance floor
($800) Call the doctor! This Foreigner song mentions “I got a fever of a hundred & three”
($1000) Let us spell it out for you: this recent hit tells you to “snap & clap & touch your toes, raise your hands, now body roll”
“HOT” ANSWERS: show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: LET’S GET TO THE POINT
($200) In January 1778 American General Samuel Parsons’ brigade crossed the Hudson & set up camp at this spot
($400) The French gave this suburban area near Detroit a name meaning “big point”
($600) The Somali peninsula is the projecting tip of the region known by this 3-word name
($800) Mainland South America’s northernmost point, Point Gallinas, belongs to this country
($1000) The city of Stevens Point, home to a famous trivia contest since 1969 is northwest of Appleton in the middle of this state
ANSWERS: show
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Jasmine showed why, well, she’s Second Chance. You gotta take the big shots (yes), but get them right (no).
The most interesting thing was the second DD. Not 8 hours ago, I read an article about the History Channel’s series Vikings, and how accurate or inaccurate it was. So, I knew it!
Otherwise, I was 1/3 on DD and missed FJ. I confidently said “The Louvre”.
Coincidences like that one with DD2 rock!
10 pm start here. Wacky game, to say the least. I knew the first/last DDs (fell into the Luxembourg trap on the 2nd) and guessed right on Final. Vaguely recalled seeing that building in 1971. Too many goofy answers tonight for my liking: Switzerland for the Lindgren/Pippi country (she probably was thinking of Heidi); universal for ubiquitous on that very knowable DD that eventually cost Jasmine the win.
Knew the World’s Fair city. My wife and her two sibs took the train up there in 1974 to see it. Also the vex/defeat clue. Not surprisingly, got only one of the “Hot” songs, the one from my heyday.
If only Jasmine had bet more conservatively on those DDs, she would have won easily.
It was another great game, and Jasmine was quite a competitor. In fact even though she flubbed a couple of difficult DDs, and was left with nothing (both times), she moved on undeterred. Myself, I didn’t do well in the game at all, and missed the FJ.