Final Jeopardy: The Supreme Court in the 19th Century (12-4-25)
Here are some more clues from the 12/4/2025 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.
ON THE MAINE LAND ($400) The name of this largest lake in Main stems from map outlines sort of resembling that of a certain antler noggin
STARTS WITH A GREEK LETTER ($2000) “Trust the” this, the 2-word term for the pointy end of your sternum
ANNUAL EVENTS ($2000) Held at England’s Aintree Racecourse, this prestigious horserace features challenging jumps called the Chair & Becher’s Brook
EXTINCT CREATURES ($1600) One of the biggest mammals ever found in that country, the Mexican variety of this omnivore has gone extinct like its Calif. cousin
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: THE SONG OF ONE LONELY CONSONANT
($200) Vowels, vowels & one lonely “D” is this valediction in “à Paris”
($400) This trademarked name with one lonely “J” lets us hear what the spirits are trying to say
($600) An “L” stuck with vowels, in isolation, goes to Kauai for this celebration
($800) Alone among vowels a “Z” has the blues & tries to forget with this clear Grecia booze
($1000) Surrounded by vowels, one “L” is alone in this term for a pair of blade-shaped pelvic bones
ANSWERS: show
We may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases made from Amazon.com links at no cost to our visitors. Learn more: Affiliate Disclosure.
Most of the time people think tomato is a fruit and most other people think a tomato is a vegetable. In the episode Mr. Potato’s Fruit & Vegetable Quiz, Peppa Pig thinks it’s a vegetable and Suzy Sheep thinks it’s a fruit. You know how Peppa and Suzy are. They always argue a lot. Tomato has seeds. But in the 19th Century, the Port Authority of New York classified tomatoes as vegetables. Which were subject to a 10% import tax. Quoted by Emily Elephant’s brother Edmund which he calls himself as a clever clogs.
I think the first DD is wrong. The first National Park east of the Mississippi was Mackinac Island. It became a NP just 3 years after Yellowstone. It lost its status 20 years later and was turned over to the state of Michigan. From the category,it was obvious what they were after, but they should have said the oldest NP east of the Mississippi, not the first
Ron had a bit of a rough start, Marie shot out of the gate, Andy fought his way into the game, but suddenly, the thoroughbred in the pack shot to an insurmountable lead. I was hoping Andy would come up with that middle DD clue.
First DD almost a giveaway, as it had to be in Maine. I guessed the 2nd. Blanked on the 3rd but should not have. When the category was intro’d, I said “chimera” would be a good word starting with a Greek letter. And there it was…. Final was a mystery, I said orchids. Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto, let’s call the whole thing off.