Final Jeopardy: Honors (4-8-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (4/8/2025) in the category “Honors” was:
Burt Lancaster & Joanne Woodward were among the first 8 honored at a 1958 ceremony held on this street
2x champ Mike Dawson, a technology manager from Portland, OR, has now won $35,600. In Game 3, his challengers are: Joe Lancour, a quality & export compliance manager from Agawam, MA; and Anise K. Strong-Morse, a history professor from Kalamazoo, MI.
Round 1 Categories: Talk O’ Tuesday – Beginning Words – Waterfalls – Back in the Saddle Again – Chapter – Verse
Joe found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Chapter” under the $800 on the 8th pick of the round. He had no money on the board, while Mike was leading with $2,600. Joe bet the $1,000 allowance but had no response so he was WRONG.
In this novel Chapter 10 is “The Shell and the Glasses” & 12, “Cry of the Hunters” show
Mike finished in the lead with $4,800. Joe was second with $3,000 and Anise was last with negative $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Scientific Law Review – Not Going Anywhere – TV Roles – The National Road – Ancient History – Ditch the X
Anise found the first Daily Double in “Ditch the X” under the $2,000 clue on the 14th pick of the round. She was in second place with $10,400, $7,000 less than Mike’s lead. Anise bet $2,500 and drew a blank so she was WRONG.
Remove the x from within a statement of a basic principle & you do this, inflict a severe injury show
Joe found the last Daily Double in “The National Road” under the $1,200 clue on the 19th pick of the round. He was in second place with $6,600, $6,200 less than Mike’s lead. Joe bet $6,000 and guessed Silver Springs. That was WRONG.
The National Road was also called this for the Maryland city where construction began in 1811 heading west show
Mike finished in the lead with a runaway $16,400. Anise was second with $2,900 and Joe was last with $1,800. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD?
No. 4 on Mental Floss’s List of Fun Facts About the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard says that 8 stars were temporarily unveiled to the public on 8/15/1958 as a means of drumming up excitement for the project. 4 of the honorees were deceased: Silent screen stars Olive Borden, Ernest Torrence, and Edward Sedgwick. Oscar-winner Ronald Colman passed away a few months before the event. Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster and Joanne Woodward were the only living honorees.
Alex Trebek’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was dedicated in 1999. He also has one on the Canadian Walk of Fame in Toronto.
Joe bet it all and doubled his score to $3,600.
Anise bet $707 and finished with $3,607.
Mike bet $5,000 and won the game with $21,400. Mike’s 3-day total is $57,000.
2 triple stumpers from TV ROLES:
($1600) This Oscar winner played multiple roles on “American Horror Story” & portrayed Joan Crawford in “Feud”
($2000) Recently winning the first major acting awards in her 45-year career, in the ’80s she played Jackie Templeton on “General Hospital”
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS”
At times they each lived on Vilakazi St. in Soweto, so it claims to be the world’s only street home to 2 Nobel Peace Prize winners show
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I was entertaining a guest last night, and missed the entire game. Yes, the FJ was a dead giveaway.
Missed a big chunk, so it’s mostly the recap for me.
FJ a piece o’ cake, not surprised they all got it.
Got the last two DDs. Very disappointed Joe didn’t get the national road, although it wasn’t exactly a gimme.
Knew both TV roles, although never saw any of those shows.
Looking at the FJ from two years ago, I’m utterly stunned that not one player could come up with those obvious names.
The 2-word MLB opening phrase was a cinch.
My answer for the Neil Young clue was “rust” which is indeed a lyric in that song but did not follow the all of the lyrics that were in this clue.
1/3 on DD, but got FJ. At first, I was thinking of something having to do with Lincoln Center or Kennedy Center Honors, but then said “duh”, and got it.
The Quasimodo TS, I said the same thing as Joe – “Desdemona”? I knew it was one of those!
The Jackie Templeton role, I remember that, specifically! In one episode, she was wearing a hat, casually. I recall it was a fedora! However, as a bummer, although I could see her, her name evaded me until the time expired!
All 3 DDs were missed resulted a skunking since the DDs were not nice to anybody today.
Darn those Daily Doubles to the challengers, but we do have an easy FJ! clue.