Final Jeopardy: Geographic Neighbors (3-28-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (3/28/2025) in the category “Geographic Neighbors” was:
The “Hermit Nation” & the “Land of the Morning Calm” are nicknames for these 2 neighbors
5x champ Josh Weikert, a politics professor from Collegeville, PA, is up to $80,202. A game like yesterday can put him over $100K today. That can only happen if he can beat these guys: Mike Budzinski, a portfolio manager from Chicago, IL; and Revell Carr, a professor from Lexington, KY.
Round 1 Categories: U.S. Geography – Book Title Adjectives – Something to Wear – Your Name is a Sentence – On the Side of the Angels – Modern Lingo
Revell found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Something to Wear” under the $600 clue on the 18th pick of the round. He was in second place with $2,200, $200 behind Josh’s lead. Revell bet $1,200 and drew a blank so he was WRONG.
The 1960s Courrèges boot, named for designer Andre, was often worn with this item, leaving lots of leg between it & the boot show
Mike finished in the lead with $4,400. Josh was second with $3,600 and Revell was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: In the 19th Century – Pop Culture Titles in Roman Numerals – Opera – Business Terms – Well, That’s Just Science – From “M” to “M”
Josh found the first Daily Double in “Opera” under the $1600 clue on the 12th pick. He was in the lead with $10,000 now, $6,400 more than Mike in second place. Josh bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Henry Purcell’s opera “The Fairy Queen” isn’t based on Edmund Spenser’s poem but on this Shakespeare play show
4 clues later, Josh landed on the last Daily Double in “Business Terms” under the $1,600 clue. In the lead with $12,400, he had $8,800 less than Mike in second place. Josh bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Financial advisors tell clients to do this, spread investments in order to reduce risk show
Josh finished in the lead with a runaway $21,600. Mike was next with $7,600 and Revell was in third place with $1,200. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT ARE NORTH & SOUTH KOREA?
“Hermit Nation” was a name applied to the whole of Korea in a book written by William Elliot Griffis called “Corea: The Hermit Nation” (1882), with a revised edition published in 1911. Griffis was referring to the country’s isolationist policies but predicted that “”Corea cannot long remain a hermit nation.” He hoped that someday “the same brilliant path of progress on which the Sunrise Kingdom [Japan] has entered, awaits the Land of Morning Calm.” Griffis did live long enough to see the Sunrise Kingdom annex Korea in 1910 but he died in 1928, well before the country and the two nicknames were divided into North Korea and South Korea.
See more country nicknames on PendulumEdu.com
Revell had Tibet & Nepal. He bet $1,100 and finished with $100.
Mike went with Scotland & England. That cost him $1,000 and left him with $6,600.
Josh wrote down Nepal & Bhutan. He bet $1,600 but won the game with $20,000. His 6-day total is $100,202. Congrats to Josh on sweeping the week!
2 triple stumpers from IN THE 19th CENTURY:
($1600) August 2, 1832 saw the Battle of Bad Axe, part of this short-lived war named for a Sauk leader
($2000) 24-year-old Julia Gardiner married this widower, age 54, on June 26, 1844
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “CITY HISTORY”
Over 700 years after its traditional 1252 founding date, this port city became associated with a psychological response show
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A basketball game preempted the Jeopardy game again. In fact, that game lasted until sometime after midnight. Anyways, taking a quick look at the clues on this site, North Korea immediately came to my mind, and so did Japan. Well, I was half right, but I can’t take any credit even if I was completely right since it’s just not the same as playing the actual game.
I was 3/3 on DD, and got FJ. I knew the Hermit country, and guessed at SK (I was hoping it wasn’t something goofy like the 11 or 12-mile border with China).
The first round, especially, was rather pedestrian. I get what my erudite buddy Howard said, and I concur.
It’s Russia that has the short border with North Korea. The North Korea/China border is over 800 miles.
Yikes! So, I am ALL over the place!
Thanks for that, VJ!!
Missed much of first round, but it appears Revell went nowhere after missing that cinch DD. Third one was also a breeze. Might have hit the 2nd one, given enough time. FJ was murder. Gave myself half a point for knowing the City History FJ you posted from two years ago. That one I liked.
Josh’s $100K/6 wins is fair-to-middling IMO, about half what Ken J averaged over his long run. He’s solid but not unbeatable. As I pointed out a few days ago, a wise wager by an opponent would have toppled him.
A few stumpers were right there for the taking. Widower married in 1844 (that age difference no doubt was why she bore him 7 kids; one of his grandsons is 96 and still alive); Blank Blank Lies; Stern sidekick; Dutch art dealer; British dome/O2. Haven’t hit that many in a long time.
I have one thing in common with Revell — I love sea shanties and folk songs. 🎶
On the other side of the coin, I knew the answer to his Daily Double. I used to wear them. 🤣
And we got our third straight triple stumper as today’s final was tough thanks to that evil geography clue.
Your answer to the question in “Business” on 3/28 was wrong- it should be diversify, not diversity.
Thanks, I fixed it.
That’s three triple stumpers in a row. But congrats to Josh for winning every game this week. Exactly three months ago today, Laura swept the week of 12/23 while Josh swept the week of 3/24.