Final Jeopardy: Seafaring Brits (3-26-25)
Here are some more clues from the 3/26/2025 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.
BE MY TV SHOW GUEST ($800) “Fred Claus” on film, he played Freddy Funkhouser on “Curb Your Enthusiasm
($1000) This star of the O.G. “Shaft” guest starred as 2 different characters on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”
BIG SCREEN BASEBALL BRIEFLY ($2000) Texas college ballplayers Jake, Roper & McReynolds are often dazed & confused
COMPOUND WORDS ($400) Term for a car that resembles a convertible but has a fixed roof
($1200) Another way to ask “What are you reading?” is “What’s on your this word with 5 consecutive consonants
($1600) In 1884 black inventor Willis Johnson patented a model of this device that could mix batter, as well as the food in its name
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: DOUBLE TALK
($200) The “Ants Go Marching” rhyme took this double-talk phrase from the Civil War song “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”
($400) A kids’ song doesn’t take place in a “papaya patch” but in a patch of this similar-sounding fruit
($600) Philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser’s repetitively slangy reply on hearing a double positive can never equal a negative
($800) It was applied to a 1940s “Kid” who romanced older women; today it means out there or new agey
($1000) Possibly meaningless repetition is big in “Waiting for Godot”, down to the double-talk nicknames of Vladimir (Didi) & Estragon (this)
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Total DD/FJ skunking for them and me. I went with Nelson, too. It fit the era.
Melanie was cruising until she missed the 2 DDs followed by her “Hello Dali” guess. Josh’s wager locked out John, whether he got or missed FJ, but all he really needed to wager was $401. Melanie was almost compelled to go big.
Old enough to remember the star of “Shaft.” Never saw the films. He was a BAD mother…
Howard, I’m tempted to reply with ‘shut your mouth ‘ but someone might not know it’s the next line in the song 😆
I’m surprised you didn’t get the Lion DD. That tale has even been in cartoons .
As for the Paris DD, Josh totally thought it was Jim Morrison until the word opera showed up! She was the true love of Aristotle Onassis.
Thought you might utter the next part of the song. As for the lion, yes, in hindsight. I vaguely remember it only as an old movie. I was eating a late dinner during much of the show. Long, exhausting day doing things a man my age probably shouldn’t.
The old film I saw had Alan Young (of Mr. Ed fame) as the lion’s pal. Victor Mature and Jean Simmons had top billing.
Confound it, Rick took my quip! I was 2/3 on DD, missing only the Shaw one.
Got FJ, though. Immediately, it came to me. Notably, one of the cuttings from a breadfruit plant that Capt Bligh bright back from the South Pacific is in a museum arboretum in St Vincent and the Grenadines!
Also notably, Cook was murdered in 1779.
Yes Jason, I know all about Captain Cook, but I was grasping for straws. It sure wasn’t going to be Horatio Nelson since he was mostly referred to as an admiral, and not a captain (as the clues alluded to.
Well blimey! How could anyone have guessed that Captain Bligh continued his merry way of ticking off his crew after the mutiny on the HMS Bounty? Yeah, the first thing that came to my mind in FJ was Captain Bligh, but I discounted that right away because the clues were obviously in reference to another ship. You know, that was undoubtedly what all of the contestants thought as well. Anyways, I ultimately went for Captain Cook.
@Rick, Bligh captained a number of ships over the course of his naval career. Wikipedia has a list of all of them. I get the idea that he never changed his abusive ways because whenever he was called to account, he was either cleared or only got a slap on the wrist.
The Captain Cook site I linked to says Cook was a lot harsher than Bligh when it came to punishing his crew.
Awful show as all 3 DDs were missed resulted a skunking and a triple stumper in the final resulted our sixth epic fail on wagering clues of the season. I hope William Weyser will say darn those daily doubles to Melanie.
I did, and who knows if Melanie will be back for Second Chance next year. Probably not, but you never know.
All three players wrote the same incorrect response making this a triple stumper. The last time all three players wrote the same incorrect answer was on 1/16/25.
That was when Joey DeSena beat eventual Champions Wildcard winner: Mehal Shah.