Final Jeopardy: Places in the American Past (4-16-25)

The Final Jeopardy question (4/16/2025) in the category “Places in the American Past” was:

It’s the building where the Stax Records classic “Knock On Wood” was written but it’s remembered for other reasons

5x champ Andrew Hayes, a law student orig. from Tupelo, MS, has now won $117,804 and qualified for the ToC. In Game 6, he takes on these two players: Denise LaBlanc-Bock, an architect from Santa Rosa Beach, FL; and Brenden Monroe, senior game producer from Seattle, WA.

Round 1 Categories: The Book of the Decade – Bite Me – Baseball – Bird Words – Ode on a Grecian – Earn

Andrew found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Bird Words” under the $800 on the 7th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,800, $1,400 more than Brenden in second place. Andrew made it a true Daily Double and tried grouse. That was WRONG.

A small American game bird, or to cower in fear show

WHAT IS QUAIL?

Andrew finished in the lead with $5,600. Brenden was second with $2,200 and Denise was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Irish First Names – Dual Roles – Geoverlaps – Books & War – Same Vowel Pair Twice – Pimp My Actinide

Andrew found the first Daily Double in “Geoverlaps” under the $1,600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $8,000, $5,800 more than Brenden in second place. Andrew bet $2,000 but he was stumped and stumped is WRONG.

A nation on Afghanistan’s eastern border + a big port city in northern Morocco show

WHAT IS “PAKISTANGIER”?

Andrew found the last Daily Double in “Irish First Names” under the $1,200 clue on the 19th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $21,200 now, $14,200 more than Brenden in second place. Andrew bet $4,000 and, this time, he was RIGHT.

It can be spelled with a “K”, or with a “C” as in the name of the Best Actor Oscar winner for 2023 show

WHAT IS CILLIAN?

Andrew finished in the lead with a runaway $28,800. Brenden was second with $6,600 and Denise was last with $5,200. All clues were shown.

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NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE LORRAINE MOTEL or THE NATL. CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM?

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was standing outside his room No. 306 with several others. Rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital, the 39-year-old civil rights leader was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. The Lorraine Motel was converted to the National Civil Rights Museum in 1991.

“Knock on Wood” was written by Eddie Floyd and Steve Cropper at the Lorraine Motel in 1966 and first released by Floyd on the Stax label that same year. It has been covered over 200 times by everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Cher. I’d say the most well-known covers are by label-mate Wilson Pickett (second release in 1966), David Bowie’s cover in the UK (1974), and Amii Stewart’s disco version (1978).

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Denise had no response. She lost $1,401 and finished with $3,799.

Brenden drew a blank as well. He lost $1,401 and finished with $3,799.

Andrew came up with Ford’s Theatre. He lost $8,800 but won the game with the remaining $20,000. That gave Andrew a 6-day total of $137,804. Go Andrew!

A triple stumper from each round:

BASEBALL ($1000) The carousel at Comerica Park features not horses but these animals

SAME VOWEL PAIR TWICE ($800) A wandering minstrel of the Middle Ages

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “LIVES OF THE POETS”

At a seminary that classified students’ degree of faith, Emily Dickinson was “without” this, which she compares to a bird in a poem show

WHAT IS HOPE?

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