Final Jeopardy: Texas Technology (5-12-25)
Here are some more clues from the 5/12/2025 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.
LANDLOCKED STATES BY CITIES ($600) Rugby, Grand Forks
($1000) Jacksonville, Texarkana
LETTER PERFECT ($1000) The flag of the alma mater of actor Moroni Olsen & historian Brigham Roberts bears this letter, or 2 of them
ANCIENT PERSIA ($1200) Like one completed in the late 19th c., one of the first canals connecting these 2 seas was dug by the Persians around 500 B.C.
($1600) Handel’s 1738 opera “Serse” tells the story of this great Persian king who burned much of Athens after winning at Thermoylae
($2000) Author Marjane’s last name derives from this 6-letter title, a provincial governor in the empire
IT AIN’T SHAKESPEARE ($800) A 1930s movie comedy about 3 couples in varying states of unhappiness is titled “Merry Wives of” this then-divorce capital
MOVIE & SONG, SAME TITLE ($2000) Matthew McConaughey & Led Zeppelin
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The players didn’t get any of the clues in JEOPORTMANTEAU! ($400) A mental survey of the past that follows “in” + old-timey term for eyeglasses
($800) Blushing dwarf of “Snow White” fame + point about which a lever rests
($1200) Adjective for something out of place in time + an in-your-face robbery
($1600) Twin-hulled boat + spoiled or putrid
($2000) To urge passionately + the science of growing plants
JEOPORTMANTEAU! ANSWERS show
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: MINERALOGY
($200) Used in a dusting powder, this 4-letter mineral is a 1, meaning the softest on the Mohs hardness scale
($400) Term for the tendency of some minerals to break along irregular lines; it sounds like what can happen to a bone
($600) When clear and colorless, this common mineral is known as rock crystal
($800) A gem, or for that matter, a romance or an activity can “lose its” this, the way a mineral reflects light
($1000) Almandine is a type of this gemstone that’s been favored by lapidaries since ancient times and lends its name to a very dark red
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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It’s nice to show a flashback of Alex Trebek talking to Caitlin Peruccio. She was defeated by 6-day champion Andrew Moore in 2013.
That Jeoportmanteau! category was just, how should I say it, stupid? I accidentally looked at another review page, maybe TV Insider, not realizing the date. That article spoke of writers being “too clever”. I think that might be correct. Sometimes, when the entire category is TS, it is the fault of the contestants (a la Ryan Fenster et al. and the NFL category a few years ago). But, in this case, I leave it at the feet of the writers. Ick!
1/3 on DD, but FJ was a default, as that article I read gave it up (that was when I knew that the article was about today’s game).
Missed most of the program, and was stunned to turn it on and see Kara sitting at $0. What the hey?
Looking at the recap, I totally knew all three DDs, and was certain Final was Mark Cuban. He was a tech billionaire early in life. But he may never have reached the F500…
Knew Rugby/Grand Forks state; divorce capital (it’s where women often moved to in the 60s to establish 6 weeks of residency to get a quickie divorce); the $800 and $1600 portmanteaus were not difficult.
Just speculating, but it’s possible Kara had a week or longer between the Friday and Monday tapings. That happened to me in the 70s after I won twice on “Split Second” and had to wait 6-7 days till the next game. Not only was I a nervous wreck that whole time, but they picked the two best players from the new contestant pool to pit against me. We had a great battle but I lost.
Well I’m going to differ with the naysayers here as I thought that it was another great game, and quite competitive in fact. Gee, I sure thought that Kara was likely going to remain the champion. Instead, it was anyone’s guess if she could manage to get herself out of the hole, and into the positive territory. Anyways, I performed a tad below average in today’s game, and for lack of anything better, I went with Elon Musk for FJ. Yes, I was fully aware that it wouldn’t fly.
Oh yes, the ‘O’ in Morse Code (3 Dashes) was a cinch as I had learned Morse Code some years ago.
To get $19k+ in Triple stumpers (taking the values of the DDs gotten as the value of the clue) and have a lock game going into FJ! on jjust the triple stumpers, doesn’t happen often.
Awful show as all 3 DDs were missed and a triple stumper in the final resulted in an epic fail on wagering clues. Let’s hope tomorrow will be better.
Every once in a while, we get a game where the categories just don’t fit the contestants, and we get tough games like this. Obviously, the producers can’t ask the contestants what categories they do like, and then, magically put them on the board. It doesn’t work that way. They have to think about what categories to put on the board and hope the contestants will like them. Not today. Hopefully, tomorrow, we’ll get categories that are to the contestants’ liking. Oh, and darn those Daily Doubles! I didn’t forget that.
That was a terrible game to watch. All three players struggled with the material today. Sometimes, the game material just doesn’t fit the contestants and that was the case today. Lots of triple stumpers and low scoring game. They all scored below 6,000 going into Final. We had a daily double wipeout as well and the worst part is we even missed the tiebreaker. This was one of the worst games ever this season and that is not good at all. Today’s game was just like October 29, 2024 where all three players had less than 6,000 going into Final.
Better luck next time with the tiebreaker.