Final Jeopardy: Countries of the World (2-4-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (2/4/2025) in the category “Countries of the World” was:
About 80 miles from Vladivostok, its 11-mile land border with Russia is the shortest of that country’s 14 neighbors
The players in the first semifinal match of the 2025 Tournament of Champions are: 15x champ Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana; 4x champ Ryan Manton, a systems administrator from Columbus, OH;; and 4x champ Will Wallace, a game design director from Austin, TX;.
Round 1 Categories: Black Mystery Month – It’s Hyphenated – Celebrity Podcasts – Senators – Any Day of the Week – Big “C”ities
Ryan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Any Day of the Week” under the $1,000 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,000, $400 less than Adriana’s lead. Ryan bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
On “American Gods”, Ian McShane was Odin, also known as Mr. this guy show
Ryan finished in the lead with $5,200. Adriana was second with $4,400 and Will was last with $200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: My Condiments to the Chef! – Poets & Poetry – Scientists – Movie & Song Title – Once Upon a February – Here’s 2 “U”!
Adriana found the first Daily Double in “Scientists” under the $1,200 clue on the 15th pick of the round. She was in second place with $11,200, $800 less than Ryan’s lead. Adriana bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
“A strength of mind almost divine”, says some of the Latin inscription on this 17th century genius’ grave at Westminster Abbey show
Will found the last Daily Double in “Movie & Song Title” under the $1,200 clue with 8 clues left after it. He was in last place with $1,000, $17,400 less than Adriana’s lead. Will bet $2,000 and said “Baby Got Back”. That was WRONG.
A Nicki Minaj hit that samples Sir Mix-a-Lot & a J.Lo movie set in the jungle show
Adriana finished in the lead with $22,000. Ryan was second with $12,000 and Will was last with $200. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS NORTH KOREA?
The border between Russia and North Korea comes up now and again on Jeopardy! The last time it came up was in 2022 and, although the clue wasn’t about the border lengths, I did mention the length of North Korea’s border. At that time, the info I had was 10.7 mile border. Wikipedia’ article says 11 miles.
According to the above video, the North Korea-Russia border isn’t even in the Top 5 shortest borders in the world. It comes in at No. 8.
Will went with Bhutan. He bet and lost his whole $200.
Ryan got it right. He bet $10,001 and finished with $22,001.
Adriana also got it. She bet $3,000 and won the game with $25,000. Adriana Harmeyer is the first finalist. Ryan and Will got $10,000 each.
A triple stumper from each round:
IT’S HYPHENATED ($1000) Jacob Grimm coined this hyphenated name for a Balkan language; now with Bosnia & Montenegro in the mix, it’s known as BCMS
SCIENTISTS ($1600) The 1903 Nobel for Physics was shared by Pierre & Marie Curie & this other physicist
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “WORD ORIGINS”
This Sanskrit word referring to a spoken word or phrase comes from a word for “to think” show
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I got FJ from Jeopardy! As stated above by VJ, that from 3 years ago I believe was it.
2/3 on DD. Just could not remember J. Lo’s movie. The song I know well from my youth “”Look at her butt…”), but teasing out that word would have taken away too long.
Adriana showed her chops. Good on her!
Good battle between thoroughbreds, poor Will barely made it to the finish line.
Tough but fair FJ; Nepal was all I could muster.
Missed all the stumpers and 2/3 DDs. Middle one was pretty easy.
Adriana’s a formidable force. Curious to see whom she’ll face. Wouldn’t mind seeing two women in the Finals for a change.