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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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.
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.