Final Jeopardy: National Monuments (5-16-25)
Here are some more clues from the 5/16/2025 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.
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD ($400) Moving at 4 mph, it should take you about 8,980 hours to walk around the entire border of this country & its 145 million people
ON A STAMP ($1000) The $1 Statue of Freedom stamp depicts the head of the figure that stood atop this building since 1863
TRASH TALK ($400) In 2017 Sixers fan Kevin Hart said he let this then-Rocket know, “You’re in my city. Your beard stinks… I hate your calves”
($800) This 4-time U.S. Open singles winner in the ’70s & ’80s said he had more talent in his pinkie than Ivan Lendl had in his whole body
($1000) This woman who appeared in “Furious 7” & “Entourage” dissed fighters like Bethe Correia & Miesha Tate before matches
20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD ($2000) What makes you think of Kerrygold Butter? Naturally, this band’s “I Want You to Want Me”
BOOK TITLE TATTLE ($800) A.W. Wheen, a WWI vet like the author, chose this English title in translating a book whose German title means “Nothing new in the West”
OLD TESTAMENT NAMES ($1600) Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego endured a stay in a furnace in the book of this man
TRASH TALK ($2000) In England it refers to any of the entrails of an animal, like brawn or chitterlings
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($200) For its many canals, Amsterdam is known as “The” this “of the North”
($400) An 1861 print depicts General Winfield Scott as this mythological hero of the Union, clubbing the great dragon of secession
($600) Robert Schumann called his brilliant & precocious contemporary Felix Mendelssohn “The” him “of the 19th Century”
($800) The “Michelangelo of the Midway”, August Wolfinger is renowned for his paintings on the historic carousel at this Brooklyn venue
($1000) Eloquent Henry Ward Beecher was “The Shakespeare of” this 6-letter preacher’s platform
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1/3 on DD, and got FJ. Final came to me in an instant, maybe because I couldn’t name any others! But, it sure don’t look like a tipi to me!
Got about 40% of TS.
I guessed final right too, although I was second guessing myself because like you said it doesn’t look like a tipi lol. It is grey though.
Didn’t get to watch, but (I rarely get to say this) I nailed all 3 DDs and easily got FJ. Teddy Roosevelt was really into national monuments and parks, and 1906 was a big hint. The Black Sea port was a gimme. Most hoops fans would know the bearded player, same for tennis fans knowing the US Open champ. “I Want You to Want Me” is a classic from my era. The German to English title was gettable if you knew it was WWI related and by a German author.
I got a laugh when I saw “I Want You to Want Me” go TS because I knew my daughter Nikki would get that instantly — she loved that song and she is in the same age range as Mitch.
My kids, all between 33 and 47, know a lot of the 60s-70s tunes because of my relentless playing of oldies stations and my own records and tapes.
Same here, Howard, not just about the oldies but the age range of the kids, too. My oldest was between 2 and 3 when Sha-Na-Na had their TV show. He would drop whatever he was doing to watch it. He could do a spot-on rendition of Rip Van Winkle but his favorite song was “I Fought the Law”
Mitch was sharp in today’s game , and subsequently became the new Jeopardy champion. Congratulations Mitch! As for me, I didn’t do well in the game, and flubbed the FJ. Well, I’ll have to say that today’s FJ was somewhat tough per se, but it was nevertheless gettable. In fact, it sure was a far cry from yesterday’s FJ.
That’s our third triple stumper this week in the final.
This was an ugly week this week for Final Jeopardy! Only 3 out of 15 correct responses in Final. It’s been a tough week for the players. However, for the first time, the daily doubles were found on the first pick in each round and that’s something we never see often.