Final Jeopardy: Toys & Games (3-17-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/17/2025) in the category “Toys & Games” was:
Preparing for a course on descriptive geometry & researching the 5 platonic solids led a professor to invent this
New champ Alex DeFrank, an inventory specialist from Brooklyn, NY, won $42,401 last Friday. In Game 2, his challengers are: Clare Murray, an articling student from Toronto, Ontario; and Brett Aresco, a writer & content strategist from Fairhope, AL.
Round 1 Categories: Mergers & Acquisitions – “Bad” Entertainment – Also a New Wave Band – Common Bonds – It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Nebula! – I Said What I Said!
Brett found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “‘Bad’ Entertainment” under the $800 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,400, $1,000 more than Alex in second place. Brett made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
In a 2015 No. 1 hit, “‘Cause baby now we’ve got” this, “you know it used to be mad love” show
Brett finished in the lead with $7,000. Alex was second with $6,600 and Clare was last with $600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Around the World – Instruments You Can Play – From a Teen’s Book Report – Dancing in Non-musical Movies – It’s All Greek Alphabet to Me – Yves Dropping
Alex found the first Daily Double in “From a Teen’s Book Report” under the $2,000 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $8,600, $2,800 more than Brett in second place. Alex bet $5,000 and blanked out so he was WRONG.
The people of Uruk hide their kids & hide their wives whenever the title king rolls up & they start glazing Anu to create Enkidu show
Clare found the last Daily Double in “Around the World” under the $1,600 clue on the 12th pick of the round. She was in last place with $3,400, $4,000 less than Brett’s lead. Clare made it a true Daily Double and guessed Nairobi. That was WRONG.
Built by the Portuguese in the 16th century, Fort Jesus was established to protect this Kenyan Port City show
Brett finished in the lead with $9,800. Alex was second with $8,800 and Clare was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS RUBIK’S CUBE?
This is the 4th Final Jeopardy! clue on the gadget invented by Hungarian professor Erno Rubik in 1974. Rubik didn’t set out intentionally to invent a toy that would become a worldwide sensation. He was mainly trying to come up with something that would be helpful in the descriptive geometry course he was teaching.
Here’s a link to a YouTube video that, hopefully, will explain what the Rubik’s Cube has to do with the five Platonic solids, because I sure can’t.
Clare thought it was Quirkle. She bet and lost her whole $2,800.
Alex got it right. He bet $5,200 and finished with $14,000.
Brett went with Tetris. That cost him $8,000 and left him with $1,800. It also made Alex a 2-day champ and brought his winnings up to $56,401.
A triple stumper from each round:
INSTRUMENTS YOU CAN PLAY ($1200) The album titled “True Bluegrass” this 4-string instrument features greats like Bobby Hicks & Kenny Baker
YVES DROPPING ($000) From his bio, he worked with Edith Piaf, had an affair with Marilyn Monroe, starred in “Z” & was talked about for French president in 1988
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “COUNTRIES OF AFRICA”
At one time a province of the Roman Empire, this kingdom is known to Arabic scholars as Al-Maghrib Al-Aqsa, “the Far West” show
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Ouch, missed all the DDs and FJ. Silly Putty was my weak guess. In hindsight, FJ wasn’t impossible. Not a high-scoring affair, but the two guys kept it interesting. I thought Alex should have wagered $1001 to lock out Clare. Brett more or less had to wager about $8K, which he did, and get it wrong, which he did. Had Clare been right and Alex wrong, she’d have won. Preventable if he’d just wagered $1001.
It hurt me a bit when no one knew the French heartthrob in the Yves category. He was a big deal when I was much younger. “Z” was a fine film. All the other stumpers were not nice to me.
I could relate to Alex’s interview tale. Three years ago, I was picked for a $10 ticket to see “Hamilton.” I figured I’d be in the last row. Instead, I was placed in the first row, just to the side of the conductor. A few years earlier, I paid $70 to see “Mormon” in the 2nd row of the balcony and couldn’t hear half of the wisecracks.
I thought the final was super easy. Daily doubles were hard.
It was another exciting and competitive game. As for me, I performed well in the regular Jeopardy, but found the DJ clues to be somewhat tough. Well, we frantically tried to come up with the correct response for FJ, but neither of us could come up with the game.