Final Jeopardy: Authors (12-23-25)
Here are some more clues from the 12/23/2025 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.
YOUNG ADULT NOVELS ($600) Cassandra Clare’s “City of Glass”, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters, is Book 3 in this lethal series
($800) Rose & Lissa attend this secret boarding school hidden in rural Montana for paranormal royalty & their protectors
($1000) Just a teenager when she wrote her first YA nove, “Solitaire”, she’s known for the “Heartstopper” romance comics
4-SYLLABLE WORDS ($2000) These are known as “great circles” that pass through the Earth’s poles
LADY & THE STAMP ($1600) A recruitment poster overlaid with code appears on the 2022 Forever Stamp titled “Women” these experts “of WWII”
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: U.S. PLACE NAMES
($200) This university town in North Carolina was founded in 1793 & named for the location of a Church of England building
($400) You’ll find this 2-word city with a state in its name in the Hampton Roads area
($600) This Westchester County city abuts Wakefield in the Bronx–both are plantation names associated with George Washington
($800) The name of this state capital likely comes from a word used by the Seminoles to mean “old town”
($1000) This once-booming town at the confluence of the Mississippi & Ohio is in an area of Illinois known as “Little Egypt”
ANSWERS: show
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2/3 on DD and got FJ. That Final was one that, if you knew it, you did. If Olof Palme didn’t ring a bell, you were, most likely, out of luck.
Concur that Michelle was likable and charismatic. And, she broke the mold for “there’s a reason they didn’t win”.
Props to Molly for staying in range against a strong player. Michelle went for the jugular on that last DD and it could have cost her if she missed Final. I had no clue but figured it might be Stieg Larsson. I got only the easy middle DD.
Michelle was very fast and smart, and eminently likable. (Also one of my favorite names) Stumpers completely stumped me. The proverbs category was a total waste, way too easy. The place names was a much better one.
Today’s the 38th “airaversary” of my close call on the show. 🙁
This match belonged to the M ladies Molly and Michelle. Bob only buzzed in twice in the second round and was incorrect on both and he wasn’t around for FJ! Here’s a strange coincidence, exactly one year ago today we had a dismissal on the same date which is 12/23. And today we saw a dismissal on this date as well. We’ll see who is our third finalist tomorrow.
Michelle’s response of Larsen should be accepted on the spelling list decisions. It’s an acceptable misspelling.