Final Jeopardy: Medical History (12-31-25)
Here are some more clues from the 12/xx/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.
HOBBIES & PASTIMES ($1000) “Where Indoor Cycling Began” is the slogan of this trademarked “rotational” activity
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? ($1200) Concupiscence is a fancy way to say this, one of the deadly sins
($2000) This rhyming word actually meant exactly what it sounds like– a trick to catch applause; now it can mean nonsense
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: POTPOURRI
($200) Mars was the Roman equivalent of this Greek god
($400) This magic man in “The Tempest” is the exiled Duke of Milan
($600) Pre-telegraph, you could communicate over long distances via this, a name derived from French, using flags or lights
($800) Before mastering the art of French cooking, Julia Child worked for this precursor to the CIA during World War II
($1000) This Muse might be amused to find her name on many a circus musical instrument
ANSWERS: show
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I was 3/3 on DD and got FJ.
The epidural is just that – doesn’t puncture the dura. When doing a lumbar puncture (spinal tap), you want to enter the dura, to obtain the spinal fluid. For the epidural, they stay outside. Then, they can introduce the meds, which anesthetize the nerves (which come out of the dura like tree branches). If, unintentionally, the anesthesiologist punctures the dura, it’s called a “wet tap”, and the amount of anesthetic is reduced by about 90%. 125 years ago, I’m not sure they knew as much.
Anyways, despite the missed clues, numbers were still good. We’ll see how the finals go.
Good game, smart peiople, but a lot of wrong answers. Ryan seemed to pick up a lot of $$ answering after others’ errors. All 3 DDs were gettable; I missed only the 2nd one, thinking Katmandu. We had enough babies in our time that I knew what Final was. I did well overall but got only that one rhyming stumper about applause. I knew that Jefferson and Adams had died on 7-4, not that there was a third. My Mom also died on that date.
Wow, what a very competitive game tonight! As for me, I did a bit better than average, but none of us could come up with the correct response for FJ. In fact, all I could come up with was morphine. Oh well!
The daily doubles were found immediately in the first two clues in Double Jeopardy! It’s very unusual and we don’t see that often all the time.
This is the second time this happens. Last time 2 Daily Doubles were the first 2 picks of the Double Jeopardy! Round was December 26, 2023.