Final Jeopardy: Famous Names (2-28-25)
Here are some more clues from the 2/28/2025 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.
BOOKS & AUTHORS ($400) This author of “The Name of the Rose” was a semiotician, a scholar in the field of signs & symbols
SOCIAL TYPES ($200) It’s the NYSE symbol for insurance brokerage Brown & Brown, or a young hedge fund manager who might invest in it
($800) 3-word self-description by Taylor Swift as she endorsed Kamala Harris
THE COUNTY LINE ($800) In the 1940s the New Mexico legislature established this county quite a bit smaller than its neighbors
METEOROLOGY ($400) A “line” of these wind-speed disturbances can be miles long; the word also means a squabble
CREATORS & CREATIONS ($800) David Baszucki & Erik Cassel navigated Obbys & became tycoons as creators of this platform for creating 3D worlds
PERIOD ENTERTAINMENT ($800) Set in the early 20th century, “Downton Abbey” had Hugh Bonneville as Robert Crawley, Earl of this
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($200) She recorded a drill at her dentist’s office & put the sound in her 2019 hit “Bury a Friend”
($400) He & his Comets hit No. 1 number in 1955 with we’re gonna “Rock Around the Clock”
($600) “Mony Mony” is his only Billboard No. 1
($800) He says the grey basement cold of Chicago influenced the music he made with his band
($1000) This Righteous Brother teamed with Jennifer Warnes on the No. 1 “(I’ve Had) the Time of My Life”
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Another strong game. Good rally by Jaskaran who was way behind early.
Disappointed that Shane didn’t know the musical genre DD. Arguably it cost him the win. I saw and liked the movie when it came out in the early 80s, before it became a Broadway musical. I have a close pal who journeys to NYC a few times a year to see shows, and “Ragtime” is a big favorite of his. He paid four figures not long ago to see a one-night revival with the original cast.
First DD not a braincrusher. FJ stumped me. Didn’t realize Erik Weisz was from Wisconsin or Hungary, did know he died on my birthday, but many years earlier. Knew the “Name of the Rose” guy. Pretty sure I had that Hawaiian dish when I was there. Its non-rhyming version is known as a plate lunch. It was designed to keep the pineapple plantation workers well-fed.
It was another fantastic and competitive game. Gee, I sure wish that the telecaster in Kalamazoo, Michigan would get its act together as the transmissions keep getting cut off during the game. Anyways, I thought that the FJ was rather trivial and perhaps ambiguous. Well, the first thing that came to my mind was Zsa Zsa Gabor, and I stuck with her for FJ.