Final Jeopardy: American Authors (2-24-25)
Here are some more clues from the 2/24/2025 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.
CELEBRITIES ($800) His memoir “From Under the Truck” chronicles being raised in Paso Robles & his roles in “Goonies” & “No Country for Old Men”
($1200) In 2024 she won the Jackie Joyner Kersey Award for top U.S. female track & field athlete
($2000) This “SNL” actor found viral success as a doctor/model, wedding crasher, off-key singer & cuckolder Domingo
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($200) The name of this decorative art style that arose in France in the 1700s came in part from using rocks to decorate grottos
($400) The brightest star in this constellation is Al Tarf, Arabic for “The End”; it marks the end of a leg on the crab
($600) A year after finishing this iconic painting featuring a glowing yellow crescent mon, Van Gogh was van gone
($800) New to Paris, this Russian-Jewish artist painted a cubist-ish “Homage to” the avant-garde poet Apollinaire in 1911-12
($1000) It’s Chemistry 101, people! The tables were turned when this radioactive element, No. 101, was named for a Russian chemist
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I, too, went with Faulkner. FSF didn’t even come to mind. 2/3 on DD.
I liked just how smart this game sounded. Few dead air spots, and no inane responses devoid of logic. Def better than some of the TOC games.
Ka-ching! I moved from Faulkner to Hemingway to Fitzgerald, having no idea if any of them was the one. Surprised myself a bit by getting DDs #2 and 3 (assuming Czech Republic was acceptable).
Game efforts by Avi (from my current hometown) and Amy to stay in touch.
I more or less understand Avi’s wacky FJ wager now. Luigi was compelled to wager $4801 at least. Amy was likely to wager $9401 if not the whole wad. Avi hoped to get FJ right, the others to miss, and he’d have $18833 compared to Luiigi’s $18799 or less, and Amy’s probable $4K-ish total.
Knew the female athlete and should have easily nailed the hard-shelled fruit.
Maybe someone here can pin this down better than I. Avi won something like $100K in teen or college tournament and gave a bunch of it to a charity. I remember it being on the local news.
I got FJ! thanks to an Amazon series called Z: The Beginning of Everything, with Christina Ricci in the title role. It was originally on Prime. According to its IMDB page, there’s a lot of places you can stream it now.
There wasn’t much to go on in Fj, but if Zelda was mentioned, it would have been a dead giveaway.
It was another great and competitive game with Luigi finishing in the lead. Well, I went with William Faulkner too for FJ.
We begin the week with a triple stumper since today’s final was tough.
Avi wagered $7,233, and he was left with $4,367.