Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Figures (4-29-25)
Here are some more clues from the 4/29/2025 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.
SUFFIXES ($600) It’s often used in geographic names, but as Bridget Jones knows, in regular words it follows single & not much else
($1000) The unusual -sider goes at the end of this big city to make a word for Hugh Jackman or Toni Collette
NOT-QUITE-GRAMMY-WINNING SONGS OF THE YEAR ($1600) This Lizzo track got edged out for 2023 Song of the Year; when it won for Record of the Year, maybe she thought of the title
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
($200) Saving Pope Leo III from insurrection in 799 led to this “great” man forging the Holy Roman Empire
($400) After totaling the Taters & founding the Mongol Empire in 1206, he later set his sight on– & took– Beijing
($600) In 324 this emperor defeated his rival Licinius at (Yo!) Adrianople & soon renamed Byzantium after the perfect guy… himself
($800) Murad I of this empire moved into Thrace & captured (Yo!) Adrianople around 1361
($1000) After the American Revolution, the British Empire bounced back with gains like this island 200 mi. north of Africa in 1814
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Turned the show on briefly fairly early on, and did a double take when I saw Erin with minus 1000 and Ben with 12K. Must have been an all-out blitz from the get-go. Came back for FJ: when I saw 1920s, Chicago, and a detective’s name, I immediately went with Ness and didn’t try guessing anyone else. Almost seemed too obvious, but at least 3 people would say otherwise.
First 2 DDs easy, didn’t know the 3rd. Guessed the ‘sider city.
I guessed Ness right away myself, probably because I associate that era with Boardwalk Empire and Prohibition. I wasn’t too sure I was right though.
I thought the DDs were softballs.
Great minds think alike. 🙂
I was 2/3 on DD, and got FJ. I remember reading about Ness, and how he died in 1957 in Coudersport PA. Coudie was somewhat near to my last EM job, and I found out that Ness, sadly, spent his last years in bars in Coudie, telling his mob stories to whomever would listen. As for the Sherlock Holmes thing, I wonder where they even got that.
Pinkerton, IMO, was not a great guess. He was a 19th century guy. He died in 1884.
Ben was good on the button. I think he would have squished Liam, too.
Maybe Ness said something about Sherlock in his memoir.
I once worked for a guy who had a pooch named Sherlock.
Erin seemed to be too fast on the buzzer at times, and it had cost her. Well, I performed about average in the game, and got at least one DD. Actually, I just include the DDs with the total as the real prize is the FJ. In that regard, all I could come up with was Pinkerton.
That was a tough final as we got our first triple stumper this week.
15,600 at the end of the first round was the highest score this season. Ben gave 23 correct responses in the Jeopardy round which is the record of the most correct responses in Round 1. Ben had 34 correct responses in today’s game, that is the strongest game from any other player this season.
So Rahel was today’s runaway preventer but nobody made a penny in the final round.