Final Jeopardy: City Nicknames (4-15-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (4/15/2025) in the category “City Nicknames” was:
The poet Albius Tibullus called a city this in the late 1st century B.C., some 700 years after its traditional founding
4x champ Andrew Hayes,, a law student orig. from Tupelo, MS, has now won $98,603. In Game 5, his challengers are: Dondi DeMarco, an operations exec. from New York, NY; and Thomas Wilson, a teacher from Taylors, SC.
Round 1 Categories: Bodies of Water – All the Aughts – Bonds of Criminality – What’s in Your Wallet? – From Page to Screen – Oops! I Accidentally Took the Spanish Crossword
Andrew found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “What’s in Your Wallet?” under the $600 clue, with 9 clues left after it. He was in second place with $4,400, $600 less than Dondi’s lead. Andrew bet $1,000 and thought it was ballet shoes. That was WRONG.
Sept. is the natl. month to get this item; Octavia Butler & David McCullough were among those to reminisce about their first, as kids show
Dondi finished in the lead with $4,400. Andrew was second with $3,600 and Thomas was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Starts With “SC” – Authors’ Real Housewives Taglines – The World Almanac 2025 – Government Jobs – Spacey Talk – Famous Last Lyrics
Thomas found the first Daily Double in “Government Jobs” under the $1,200 clue on the very first pick. He had the$2,400 he finished the last round with. Thomas made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
This IRS job from the Latin for “hearing” is more formally a revenue agent or tax compliance officer show
10 clues later, Dondi landed on the last Daily Double in “Spacey Talk” under the $1,200 clue. In the lead with $10,800, he had $4,400 more than Andrew in second place. Dondi bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
2 moons around Saturn’s F ring are called these, for the way they tend to the ring’s flock of particles show
Dondi finished in the lead with $18,400. Andrew was next with $11,600 and Thomas was in third place with $9,600. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE ETERNAL CITY?
According to the legend we have seen in several amusing Jeopardy! clues, Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC. and was named after Romulus. “Romulus aeternae nondum formaverat urbis moenia, consorti non habitanda Remo” contains the first known reference to Rome as the Eternal City. It is in “Messalinus As Custodian of the Sybilline Books”, the 5th poem of Albius Tibullus’ second book of Elegies. It is translated as “Romulus has not yet laid out the walls of the eternal City, no place for his brother Remus” on Poetry in Translation. Other sites translate the Remus part differently.
We can at least all agree that the Eternal City has been Rome’s nickname for a mighty long time.
Thomas thought it was Troy. He lost $9,000 and finished with $600.
Andrew got it right. He bet $7,601 and finished with $19,201.
Dondi didn’t have a response. He lost $5,001 and finished with $13,399. That gave Andrew his 5th win and a guaranteed spot in the next Tournament of Champion. Andrew’s 5-day total is $117,804.
A triple stumper from each round:
BONDS OF CRIMINALITY ($200) Handy with the steel, the Lincoln County Regulators included Frank Coe & this outlaw who died at 21 in 1881
AUTHORS’ REAL HOUSEWIVES TAGLINES ($1200) I worked “Night and Day” on that 1919 novel, so my husband Leonard & my friend E.M. Forster can think what they want
Andrew Hayes, Dondi DeMarco, Thomas Wilson
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “THE OSCARS”
Born in 1932 & the son of a percussionist in the CBS Radio Orchestra, he’s been nominated for 53 Oscars show
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I too was thinking Rome, but instead trying to think of a Latin name.
Sharp-looking and -thinking men today, good matchup.
Got only the middle DD, but hit several stumpers. 1919 author; LA purchase date; Tony-winning show.
Those last lyrics were absolute murder. Wish they’d all been from the 60s/70s.
Perhaps they thought everyone would know the Justin Timberlake song because of the Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction.
2/3 on DD, but missed FJ. Same here, Rick – I knew it was Rome, but best I came up with was “city on a hill”.
I did get the Real Housewives TS, though!
I did a tad above average in today’s game, but flubbed the FJ. Well, the first thing that instantly came to mind was Rome, but I couldn’t come up with the nickname.