Final Jeopardy: American Authors (4-14-25)
Here are some more clues from the 4/14/2025 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.
IN THE DICTIONARY ($1600) New York City kept using this word for one who rides the subway long after they were holding onto metal bars instead
($2000) Audiences see a matador at work in this Spanish word for a bullfight, from a word meaning “running”
OH! THESE WORLD CITIES END IN “O” ($1600) Founded in the 16th century, this seaport city of central Chile has been home to the country’s National Congress since 1990
The players missed 3 clues in TV TITLE CHANGE A LETTER:
($800) Donald Glover’s superspy on Amazon is replaced on the wedding cake by Jimmy of “NYPD Blue”
($1600) Billy Bob Thornton & Jon Hamm are hard at work in the wide-open Texas rendered pig fat business in this Taylor Sheridan hit
($2000) Time is a flat circle on this HBO show, but those cops are about to spend their in the arboretum unit
TV TITLE ANSWERS: show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: IT ENDS WITH “US”
($200) ($200) This type of package is an effort by the government to goose the economy
($400) Once used by telegraphers to save letters, it’s now a common term for the bunch seen here
($600) As a verb it can mean to concentrate effort or to give sharp definition to an image
($800) Be it lateral or medial, this structure in your knee helps absorb shock and prevent arthritis
($1000) This poem ends, “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul”
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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Yikes. 0/3 on DD, and missed FJ. For some reason, I was thinking of British authors, and thought of Anthony Burgess. Then, I looked again, but it was too late. Ugh.
I had to give it to this group: they, as a trio, were a quite photogenic team.
Good game, a lot of gettable clues, good competitors, just not quite strong enough to beat the champ.
Got last 2 DDs, thought Andrew would know the nest one, I should have nailed the first one too.
I know nothing about the FJ novel but somehow got the author immediately.
They left a few relative softies out there: the Ben Gunn novel; the SoCal fish (only because I once lived there and it was always a news item); the NYC subway rider (I was one for many years and still am occasionally); and the bullfight name. Those change-a-letter clues were nasty. “Stout Cortez”? Doesn’t end in -us, and I had no clue what Jade was referring to. I had “Invictus” printed on my wife’s funeral program.
Well, it was an exciting game, and Andrew remained the champ. As for the FJ, I certainly knew of the film ‘The Slaughterhouse Five’, but for some reason or another, I never watched it. Anyways, I didn’t come up with the author of that novel either.
Man, talk about back-handed compliments! Ken’s “I didn’t know you had that in you” was just rude when Andrew had a temporary mental block on the Tarantino film DD.
It could have simply been a slip of the tongue VJ as I’m pretty sure that the last thing Ken would want to do is to offend any of the contestants. Anyways, Ken is just the host of the show, and the show does not revolve around the host.
Agreed. and they should have edited that out, but what I think he really meant to say was, “I didn’t think you’d come up with it in time.” Much less offensive.