Final Jeopardy: National Monuments (5-16-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (5/16/2025) in the category “National Monuments” was:
Also called “Great Gray Horn” & “Bear’s Tipi”, this site in the western U.S. was made a national monument in 1906
2x champ Brandon Monsman, a bartender orig. from Cleveland, OH,, has now won $23,600. In Game 3, he competes against: Mitch Loflin, a set decoration coordinator from Long Beach, CA; and Erin Hoard, a logistics receiver from Las Vegas, NV.
Round 1 Categories: Countries of the World – The Something of the Something – 3 Words, 3 Syllables – On a Stamp – Contained Therein – Trash Talk
Brandon found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “3 Words, 3 Syllables” under the $800 on the 1st pick of the round. Nobody was on the board. Brandon bet $1,000 and said “yes, we can”. That was WRONG.
After debuting on bumper stickers, this 2016 campaign phrase for Hillary Clinton quickly turned into a hashtag show
Mitch finished in the lead with $4,200. Erin was second with $3,000 and Brandon was last with $2,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: 20th Century Song, 21st Century Ad – Book Title Tattle – Plants & Trees – Naval History – Old Testament Names – Trash Talk
Brandon found the first Daily Double in “Book Title Tattle” under the $1,200 clue on the 1st pick of the round again! He was in last place with $2,000, $2,200 less than Mitch’s lead. Brandon bet $1,500 and he was RIGHT.
The opening line of William Butler Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium” provided the title for this Cormac McCarthy novel show
Erin found the last Daily Double in “Plants & Trees” under the $1,600 clue on the 18th pick of the round. She was in last place with $6,600, $6,800 less than Mitch’s lead. Erin bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
This genus of ornamental flowering shrubs & plants gave its name to a hard-to-spell deep reddish-purple color show
Erin finished in the lead with $16,000. Mitch was second with $13,800 and Brandon was last with $8,300. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS DEVILS TOWER?
Devils Tower in Wyoming has quite a few nicknames, most of them having to do with bears. According to the National Park Service, from 1857 to 1901, “Mato Tipila” was translated on most maps as “Bear Lodge” or “Bears Lodge”. “Bad god’s tower” was a mistranslation of one of the formation’s indigenous names. This morphed into Devils Tower. More on the name
The fact that President Theodore Roosevelt named Devils Tower the first national monument was covered in Final Jeopardy on 12-21-18.
Brandon thought it was the Transamerica Building. That cost him $6,000 and left him with $2,300.
Mitch came up with Mt. Wilson. He lost $5,400 and finished with $8,400.
Erin had Chimney Rock. She lost $11,601 and dropped down to $4,399. That made Mitch Loflin the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
ON A STAMP ($600) A 2021 stamp features the Colorado hairstreak, a beautiful one of these
NAVAL HISTORY ($2000) After the 1905 mutiny on the Russian battleship Potemkin, its sailors set course for this port city on the Black Sea
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “THE USA”
People going north on this route say they’re traveling “GAME”, an acronym regarding their beginning & ending points show
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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.
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.