Final Jeopardy: History (12-5-25)
Here are some more clues from the 12/5/2025 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.
COMPOSE YOURSELF! ($600) Not yet 20 in 1857, this Frenchman won the Prix de Rome for a cantata called “Clovis et Clotilde”; now, let’s! get!…
($1000) Can you Handel the truth?! This suite premiered in 1717 for a royal cruise but the entire work wasn’t put together until 1788
ALL KINDS OF CRUMMY ($600) vulture.com calls this 3-word response from Pete Campbell the greatest meme from “Mad Men”
($800) In Mexico this Spanish word for “raw” doesn’t just describe food at a cevicheria– it’s also slang for being hung over
BORDER RIVERS ($400) The Amur River forms 1,100 miles of the border between China & this country
($1200) This 6-vowel river rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains & forms part of Georgia’s border with both Alabama & Florida
STOCK SYMBOLS ($1600) ZEUS is the appropriate ticker for this steel company with a mountainous name
The players got 2 clues right in the ALEXANDER POPE category (and 2 players got one of them right!)
($400) Authors often argue with men in this profession, called booksellers at the time, but Pope poisoned one & wrote about it
($800) In “An Essay on Criticism”, Pope claims, “a little” this “is a dangerous thing”
($1200) Pope had a flame war with Lewis Theobald over editing this author, like a ghost’s “for the day confined to fast”–or roast? “in fires”
($1600) At age 16, Pope wrote his first of this type of poem dealing with the life of shepherds or rural life reversal idyll
($2000) In Canto 2 of this poem, Pope writes “fair tresses man’s imperial race ensnare, and beauty draws us with a single hair”
ANSWERS: show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 6-LETTER WORDS
($400) In geometry it’s half the diameter of a circle
($800) Without an accent aigu, it means “to continue”; with one, it helps you get a job
($1200) It’s the name of a thick-shelled clam, or Peter Griffin’s hometown
($1600) “B” + a Musketeer’s name gets this word for a ludicrous anticlimax
($2000) Oddly, this word for a metrical foot is derived from the Greek word for “finger”
ANSWERS: show
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Didn’t see the game tonight. Just as well, as I missed Final and the first 2 DDs, also all the stumpers except Handel’s suite. Too bad Margaret didn’t have enough $$ banked to win the game.
Kudos on getting the lion’s share of stumpers, Howard! That was a lot.
They had another oldies category today. Ron didn’t run it like he did yesterday because Margaret managed to sneak in on this clue: “When this Gloria Gaynor song was relegated to a B-side, it didn’t crumble, it didn’t lay down & die; it climbed to No. 1”
To be clear, I MISSED all the stumpers except Handel’s suite. And got only the last DD.
Gloria supposedly is getting the Kennedy Center honor this month. You know who made the selections himself.
Oops! Sorry, I misread that. I didn’t get either of the Composer stumpers. Whoever came up with that one that ended with “let’s get” should have realized it wouldn’t play well onstage.
I got 8, including the Pope stumpers. I know that passage that Ron missed by heart —
A little [Ron said knowledge] is a dangerous thing
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Or, in other words, the more we learn, the more we realize how little we know
What a fantastic game, and it was a runaway for Ron again. Well, I was somewhat below average in the game, and chose Mount Rushmore for FJ. Yeah, I sure didn’t think that it was going to fly. Anyways, Albert Fall was the Interior Secretary under the Harding administration, and he sold federal lands at the Teapot Dome, Wyoming to the oil companies while taking bribes in return. In addition, I know that the attorney general in the Harding Administration was also on the take (as he was taking bribes from the bootleggers), and I would dare bet that just about every cabinet secretary in the Harding administration were as crooked as they come. All of those scandals really did President Harding in since his health was steadily failing.
Ron Lalonde will be back on Monday, as we start the final regular game week of 2025 before the postseason starts on 12/15 and that’s when Second Chance begins.
I’m ready for Second Chance.