Final Jeopardy: Historic Horses (3-19-25)
Here are some more clues from the 3/19/2025 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.
POP CULTURE ANATOMY ($1200) In this colorfully-named 2023 Netflix show Maya Erskine voices Mizu, a female warrior bent on revenge in feudal Japan
EMBASSIES IN WASHINGTON ($800) Gardiner Hubbard, a founder of this world-spanning society, once owned the present-day Hungarian embassy
The players got all the clues in TOUGH 7-LETTER WORDS:
($400) From the Latin for “blot out”, it’s what you want the authorities to do to the records of that crime you committed years ago
($800) A day on which night & day are of the same length
($1200) Add an “E” to a word for a wife or husband & you get this verb you use when you adopt a cause
($1600) Beginning with an early month abbreviation, it means “feverish”
($2000) This word for a hero or upright person is the term for one of Charlemagne’s legendary champions
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: MOVIES BY DECADE
($200) “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”
($400) “Good Will Hunting”
($600) “Zootopia”
($800) “The Guns of Navarone”
($1000) “Sergeant York”
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Ann & Adam gave it their all; maybe we’ll see Adam again. (I know too well what it’s like to be the only one to get FJ and still lose in a lock game.) Based on the era in FJ, best I could come up with was Napoleon. 2/3 on DDs thanks to a guess on Beethoven.
Don’t know why no one knew the world-spanning society.
“Guns of Navarone” was probably the first adult novel I read, probably at age 11 or 12. It made a fine movie, too. Gregory Peck, among others.
Napoleon’s favorite horse was said to be Marengo. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Marengo was injured at Waterloo and Napoleon had to switch to a different horse. (Not totally sure about that.)
The British have Marengo’s skeleton in a museum and they wanted to put Copenhagen’s on display there, too, but Wellington wouldn’t allow it.
Ages ago a college friend played me a bit from an old Jack Benny radio show in which Phil Harris confused the Duke of Wellington with Duke Ellington.
At first, I was hoping that the baby boomer generation would prevail today. Then when Adam put in his best effort to prevent a runaway, I was hoping he could pull it off. Seeing as how he was the only one to get FJ, he might’ve won if he had found at least one of the DDs in the last round.