Final Jeopardy: World News 2024 (5-21-25)
Here are some more clues from the 5/21/2025 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.
The players missed 2 clues in SEEK & YE SHALL FIND
($200) A way to weigh gold vs. silver was the discovery that according to legend made Archimedes say this, meaning “I have found it!”
($400) I googled this service & found that in 2009 it replaced Microsoft Live Search
($600) A TV movie with Tony Curtis as David O. Selznick & Edward Winter as Clark Gable was about the search for an actress to play her
($800) Abby Wambach, Tony Robbins & Katie Holmes are just a few who swear by Viktor Frankl’s book “Man’s Search for” this
($1000) On yet another search for El Dorado, this 17th century English explorer angered the Spanish, leading to his execution
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: ADJECTIVES
($200) Also a prefix in front of “-fiche” or “-cosm”, it describes the itty-bitty
($400) Dizygotic twins are this type of twins from 2 eggs
($600) Don’t get verklempt when I tell you your hair is all this word for messy that also ends in “pt”
($800) The OED has citations back to 1906 for this trio of adjectives described one who’s lanky, swarthy & hunky
($1000) Opposite windward, it’s the side of a boat sheltered from the wind
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2/3 on DD, and missed FJ. Just zoned and didn’t have an answer.
Sam did the typical under-wager on his DD. It was clear that there wasn’t enough money left on the board for him to catch up. And that look on the contestants’ faces never gets old – when they realize they should have wagered more.
yeah, Jason, I was hoping Sam would go all in on that DD but I can’t say I blame him for being skittish. It took him a while to get out of the hole and I think he didn’t want to risk losing it all.
Didn’t watch but I can see I didn’t know FJ and got only the 3rd DD. Embarrassed to have missed the first because I live in one of those cities. Remembered the civil rights state well. Gable’s prospective co-star’s character wasn’t too difficult.
Romy got that clue about Gable’s co-star. It looked like she was struggling mightily to remember the character’s name, when she finally blurted out Olivia de Havilland!
As for the El Dorado explorer who was eventually executed, a lot of people only associate him with the Roanoke Colony that he sponsored but was never actually there. He’s also associated with the story of him spreading his cloak over a puddle so Queen Elizabeth wouldn’t get her tootsies wet and he was also a poet.
It was another exciting and competitive game, and Brandon remained as the champion. I suppose that if one had recognized either of the two cities mentioned in the FJ, then the response would have been a cinch. As for me, I did spectacularly well in the game, but flubbed the FJ. For lack of a better response, I went with Gaza City for FJ.
Romy was in the right country. Aleppo fell in November so even though it wasn’t the right answer, it was a decent guess.
That’s the second day in a row that we got a triple stumper in the final.
Now there’s a game with a low TS count — 4 in the first round; 0 in the last.
I really was surprised that Brandon went to Ukraine for FJ! I thought he’d get it for sure. He seems to know almost 2x as much as most other players.
Everyone has a weak spot (ask me how I know). I am “three miles wide and one inch deep”. Here’s a story: about 18 years ago, we had a new social worker from the Midwest. She was Native American. She said something, and exclaimed surprise when I didn’t answer. She just assumed I spoke APACHE! (I don’t) I would certainly like to, but I don’t.
So, (apparently) glaring holes like that, they happen. Like late 19th and early 20th century American lit – I got nuffum. Likewise, anything but trivial Shakespeare. John Milton, though? I’m your guy!