Final Jeopardy: Born & Died (5-22-25)
Here are some more clues from the 5/22/2025 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.
TITLES ($800) This German title equivalent to an earl came before the name of a famous zeppelin
AROUND THE HOUSE ($400) Also called the accent or side type, these should be within 2″ of the height of the sofa they’re placed to the left & right of
($800) The Paris grain market, halle aux blés helped give Thomas Jefferson a passion for these sun-admitting features
($1000) Fisher & Paykel pioneered the drawer version of this kitchen appliance
“B” & “B” ($400) Pete Rose & many others have tried to rub away the back line of this to have more time to react to pitches
LAST LINES OF THE CHILDREN’S BOOK ($400) “Should we tell her about it? Now, what should we do? Well… what would you do if your mother asked you?”
($1000) “All day long they follow the swan boats & eat peanuts. & when night falls they swim to their little island & go to sleep”
HISTORICAL MOVIES & TV ($2000) 2 recent TV projects have portrayed the 19th century empress of Austria Elisabeth, known by this repetitive name
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: IN THE DICTIONARY
($400) Originally from French & from fencing, it’s said when someone makes a good point in conversation
($800) Meaning “OK”, it can be 2 words or one word with only a single “L”– less formal, but good enough for James Joyce
($1200) This 9-letter word meaning back in America as opposed to overseas entered the language around the time of World War II
($1600) To sever a link, like to stop phone service; as a noun, it’s a gap between 2 entities or people & the stress moves to the first syllable
($2000) This word comes from the name of an editor who toned down Shakespeare, for example making Ophelia’s suicide an accident
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Sadat? Weisel? Ugh. And, whenever I hear someone has some library-associated position, I just (in my mind) assume they’ll not have really not good responses.
In any case, I was 2/3 on DD (said “rhinoceros” in place of armadillo), and got FJ. However, only about 1/3 on TS.
Missed all but Final. Cinch, at least if you were around in ’73 or knew who died at 100 in 2023 and was German-born. 3rd DD only one I knew. Knew the German zeppelin title, sun-admitting features, kitchen appliance, Pete Rose clue. Got all the dictionary clues including the two stumpers. I’d have guessed that the $2K one would have been a stumper.
Kid Lit is one of my Achilles heels. I read voraciously as a child, yet I seem to blank on that category. A lot of those books came out long after my childhood. My sister was a grade-school reading specialist and knows all those books.
Just for the record, Sadat was born in Egypt on 12/25/1918, and was assassinated in Cairo on 10/6/1981. He was 62.
Wiesel was born in Romania in 9/30/1928, and died in NYC on 7/2/2016. He was 87.