Final Jeopardy: European History (12-29-25)
Here are some more clues from the 12/29/2025 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.
LET’S GIVE THAT CAR A SECOND CHANCE ($400) Dodge discontinued the original run of this boldly named muscle car in 1974 but brought it back to great acclaim in 2008
($600) Originally made from 1962 to 1971, this brand’s Gladiator pickup came back for more off-road lumps in 2020
TAKING A SPILL ($1000) A transit pipe rupture at BP’s Prudhoe Bay facility in 2006 lead to a 1/4 million-gallon oil spill from this 800-mile system
MEANINGFUL ANAGRAMS ($2000) Striking, unusual & ready to be photographed: QUITE SPRUCE
6, 7 ($400) A minced oath, or a character in “Pinocchio”
($1600) Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson started this music genre as a rebellion against an established sound
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: THE EMPERORS
($200) Haydn’s “Emperor Quartet” provided the melody for the anthems of both Germany & this country Haydn’s homeland
($400) Like many of its kind, the emperor scorpion gives off a fluorescent glow under this type of light
($600) The emperors in 2020’s “Mulan” & “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” were roles for this martial arts master
($800) The emperor type of this bird can dive to depths of 1,800 feet & stay submerged for up to 27 minutes
($1000) As this O’Neill drama opens, an ex-Pullman porter is awakened on the unnamed Caribbean island he rules
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I do not know why my comment went as a response to Rick.
Jason, you probably accidentally hit reply when reading his comment.I fixed it for ya.
I was 0/3 on DD, but, got FJ! I always think, “James VI of Scotland, to James I, Charles I, break, Charles II, James II”. Interestingly, the current monarch is Charles III. Prior to him, the oldest person to accede to the throne was William IV, the immediate precursor to Victoria. And, who is the heir apparent? The man who will be William V!
As to Rick, Abigail did have a runaway, so, in a strict sense, was “clear”, but, you make it sound like a blowout, which it was definitely not. A minor point, but, whatever.
To me, Keegan looked like he was trying to be an actor. I thought Mustafa might have taken it, but ran out of juice.
To me, Keegan looked like he was wishing he was somewhere else.
Hahaha! Fair enough!!
Guys made a valiant rally, but too little, too late. Final category not one to my liking. I said Henry IV just to say something. Got only the middle DD. My Biblical knowledge is minimal, but that one was easy. Abigail the academic administrator reminded me of that terrible 1960s song, “Abigail Beecher, my history teacher” by Freddy Cannon.
The whole show was a struggle for me, but I did get the pro-fighter sport, but only after one wrong response. The oil system was kinda easy, so was QUITE SPRUCE anagram and the Pinocchio character in 6-7.
They didn’t seem to want to be bothered with that Pinocchio clue. It wasn’t going to make any difference at that point. They were deliberately avoiding the car DD, on the other hand.
Freddy Cannon really had some terrible song titles, like the high school teacher one you mentioned, Transistor Sister and Tallahassee Lassie. But he also had Palisades Park and Action (oh baby c’mon)!
Yeah, the 2 you mentioned were decent. I think I went to P Park once, in 1966, while working at a summer day camp. I know Tallahassee Lassie but not the other one. Someone once told me a nun who had a sex change is a trans-sister. 🙂
I went to Palisades Park in ’66, too. June or July, I think. The Wild Mouse was one scary roller coaster. It’s funny to think we might have been there on the same day!
It was another splendid game, and Abigail won the game with a clear runaway. Wow! Anyways, I was average in the game, and missed the FJ. Well, that FJ was a tough one to be sure.