Final Jeopardy: Bestsellers (3-21-25)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (3/21/2025) in the category “Bestsellers” was:
It begins in the village of Juffure & ends in Arkansas more than 200 years & 7 generations later
New champ Cameron Berry, a data analyst & college administrator from Brighton, MA, won $26,400 yesterday. In Game 2, he competes against: Steve Luck, an IT manager from Royal Oak, MI; and Josh Weikert, a politics professor from Collegeville, PA.
Round 1 Categories: A Song for All Seasons – Literary Characters, Having a Day – Fried & Gone to Heaven – In Sufferable – Lost in America – Come on, 22!
Steve found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Literary Characters, Having a Day” under the $800 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,600, $800 more than Cameron in second place. Steve made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
He/it says, “I think there’s been a failure in the Pod-Bay doors… lucky you weren’t killed… Dave… what are you doing?” show
Josh finished in the lead with $7,400. Steve was second with $6,000 and Cameron was last with $400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Spanish-American War – Science – Caught Chimping – Business Busts – Palaces – Language of the Devout?
Steve found the first Daily Double in “The Spanish-American War” under the $1,600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in second place with $5,200, $2,200 less than Josh’s lead. Steve bet $3,000 and went with Cuba. That was WRONG.
He’d fought Confederates & Apaches; now General Nelson Miles led the invasion of this Caribbean Island at Guanica show
Josh found the last Daily Double in “Language of the Devout?” under the $1,600 clue on the 12th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $9,800, $1,600 more than Steve in second place. Josh bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
The experience of Jesus & of Simon of Cyrene inspired this expression for a burden one cannot shirk show
Josh finished in the lead with $16,400. Steve was next with $11,800 and Cameron was in third place with $6,400. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS “ROOTS”?
“Roots” is a Alex Haley’s 1976 bestseller, subtitled “The Saga of an American Family”. Haley traces his roots back to the village of Juffure in the Gambia, where his ancestor Kunta Kinte was captured and brought to America on the slave ship, Lord Ligonier in the 18th century. Haley continues to tell Kunta’s story and traces his lineage throughout the 19th century and into the 20th. “Roots” was adapted to the small screen in an 8-part award-winning miniseries that debuted in January 1977. The last 7 chapters of the book were made into a sequel, “Roots: The Next Generation” that debuted in 1979.
I forgot there was a remake of the original miniseries in 2016. I was reminded by the 10-7-16 recap, when Kunta Kinte was the correct Final Jeopardy! response.
Cameron bet the farm and doubled his score to $12,800.
Steve bet $6,000 and finished with $17,800.
Josh bet $7,201 and won the game with $23,601. Josh Weikert is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ($2000) Making a rhyming sequence, Sec. of State Day was replaced by this man who used the phrase “a splendid little war”
PALACES ($1200) An edifice built for the Sovereign Council of Brabant became, in 1830, the Palace of the Nation in this capital
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “SYMBOLS”
In math, it’s a rotated V; in society, it’s a feeling of some marginalized or underrepresented people show
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Not that often we see all men or all women on the panel. Cameron made a decent comeback, but no way was he going to win after that cinch FJ.
Stumpers were nasty. Got the first DD right away, couldn’t think of the other two in the given time.
Some of those Song clues were ridiculous — pick a Beach Boys song with a singular word that “almost rhymes” with a plural word, then penalize the contestant for answering with the plural of the right word. Pick a lyric from the middle of a Taylor Swift song and expect the players to know it.
The rhyming Secretary of State was also a published poet. In his 20s, he was Abe Lincoln’s private secretary and he was in the room when Lincoln died.
J! not showing anywhere in my area. Basketball on the first channel, and NLL lacrosse on the alternate. And, not any late, 1am showing, either.
But they ARE showing WoF!
You left off Cameron’s score going into FJ! but we did end the week with a clue that everyone got Final correct.