Final Jeopardy: Women of History (5-15-25)
Here are some more clues from the 5/15/2025 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.
BESTSELLING NONFICTION ($400) “The Memoir, Part One” is the subtitle of a recent book by this pop culture icon & singer of “Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves”
($600) About a decade ago this late Nobel Prize winner reflected on his experiences from age 90 in “A Full Life”
($1000) The idea of a double self informs this memoir by Naomi Klein, a “Trip into the Mirror World” of being confused with Naomi Wolf
A BARREL OF MONKEYS ($200) Tod Sloan popularized the monkey crouch used in this sport of kings
($1000) aka the Chilean pine, an evergreen of South America is known as this for its sharp, scaly foliage that makes it hard to climb
THE DESERT MENU ($1200) When Chinese talk about where the Gobi Desert is located, they use the words nei & wai, these opposite adjectives ANSWER: show
($2000) About 450 miles east to west, it’s the royal desert highlighted here, & don’t forget the adjective that begins its name
A CATEGORY GOOD ($1600) This less-common feminized term was used by Hawaii’s king in 1878 about Liliuokalani as next in line for the throne
THE NAME ON THE DISEASE ($1600) At a hospital in Norway in 1873, this doctor discovered the leprosy bacillus in a patient’s tissue sample
($2000) Named for Robert from Dublin, this disease causes hyperthyroidism & patients can experience vision loss
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: SAILOR
($400) This popular Gilbert & Sullivan operetta named for a ship is subtitled “The Lass That Loved a Sailor”
($800) “Home is the sailor, home from the sea’, from this Scottish writer’s “Requiem”, is on his grave in Samoa
($1200) The title guy of this Joseph Conrad novel rises through the naval ranks & becomes chief mate
($1600) Here’s a piece from this celebrated American artist, known for capturing all sorts of seaworthy scenes
($2000) Billy Budd is impressed into service as one of these, meaning he’s stationed way up on a mast
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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Pretty tight game, although I’ll comment on the outcome in a minute. FJ stumped me, even though I’d taken a tour of her Denver home in 2006. Got all 3 DDs, didn’t find them too challenging. There were a couple of goofy answers: Beatles instead of Marx Bros, “Sailor Jim” instead of the (stumper) answer.
Got the Rehnquist president, pop culture icon, Scottish writer, and Conrad novel title.
Neeraj could and should have won the game, if not for his bonehead wager. He was likely going to win only if Nick missed Final. He trailed him by $1800. The most Brandon could have won was $14400 if he went all-in and got it right. So Neeraj’s proper wager was $2001, which would lock out Brandon even if both got FJ correct, and win the game if Nick wagered big, which is what he did and was expected. He missed FJ, which would have given the win to Neeraj had he gone small.
OK, for one: I was 3/3 on DD, but missed FJ. I said “Grace Hightower”..That was wrong for two reasons: 1. Grace Hightower was Robert DeNiro’s significant other and 2. I was thinking of Grace Hopper. I thought she was the first female to get a star in the US Navy, but I was even wrong at that. Oh my.
Now, an interesting connection. Too bad the writers weren’t so clever that they didn’t ask for the first name for the shaking palsy. That was James Parkinson, while the “Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome” (WPW), of the heart, was Sir John Parkinson. People that don’t know might think they are the same person, but, although first names start with J, that’s where it ends. Unlike Charcot, with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, and the Charcot joint, and Charcot-Leyden crystals (among, literally, many others) that’s all the same Charcot. And, this the interesting – who called it “Parkinson’s Disease”? Jean-Martin Charcot!
I, for one, tire of “the contestants don’t know (anything) about (anything)”.
I, for another, am sick of that myself
Wow, that was some tough FJ. Well, I’m quite sure that Margaret (Molly) Brown would have quickly offered a different opinion on the matter if the situation was reversed.
That was a tough final as we got a triple since the male contestants don’t know about women.
Wow! I felt sorry for those guy getting that Final clue. It worked out for Brandon anyway.