Final Jeopardy: Born & Died (5-22-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (5/22/2025) in the category “Born & Died” was:
He was born in Furth, Germany in 1923, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, & passed away in Connecticut in 2023
2x champ Brendan Liaw, a recent graduate & stay-at-home son from Vancouver, British Columbia, won $38,798. In Game 3, his opponents are: Angela Mustapha, a library specialist from Conway, AR; and Matt Askins, an aerospace engineer from Chandler, AZ.
Round 1 Categories: Titles – Triple Talk Songs – The Middle Ages – Around the House – “B” & “B” – Last Lines of the Children’s Book
Matt found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Last Lines of the Children’s Book” under the $800 just after the break. He was in last place with $400, $3,200 less than Brendan’s lead. Matt bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
“But he never knew that it really was his own bunny, come back to look at the child who had first helped him to be real” show
Brendan finished in the lead with $5,000. Angela was second with $1,800 and Matt was last with $1,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Subtitles – Creatures of the Earth – Outdoor Art – Historical Movies & TV – In the Dictionary – Russian Bodies of Water
Matt found the first Daily Double in “Creatures of the Earth” under the $1,200 clue on the 7th pick of the round. He was in second place with $4,000, $7,000 less than Brendan’s lead. Matt made it a true Daily Double and took a shot at it with a porcupine. That was WRONG.
Structures called osteoderms throughout this mammal’s body protect it from predators show
Brendan found the last Daily Double in “Outdoor Art” under the $800 clue on the 18th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $15,400, $9,600 more than Angela in second place. Brendan bet $2,400 and he was RIGHT.
Shepard Fairey used a 1967 photo of this athlete to create a 7-story mural outside a Louisville YMCA show
Brendan finished in the lead with a runaway $19,800. Angela was second with $9,400 and Matt was last with $2,800. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS HENRY KISSINGER?
Afte the rise of Hitler, 15-year-old Henry Kissinger and his family were forced to flee their native Germany. Kissinger became a naturalized citizen while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. A Harvard graduate, Kissinger joined the faculty as a professor of government at Harvard. On the path to becoming U.S. Secretary of State in 1973, Kissinger worked with Nelson Rockefeller and LBJ, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, as well as foreign leaders. In 1973, he and Vietnam’s Lê Đức Thọ were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973,” causing a great deal of controversy as the war was not over.
Kissinger was active in many capacities after leaving the Secretary of State office. According to the timeline of Kissinger’s life on henryakissinger.com, he continued to write and publish books up to the year before his death at the age of 100 on 11/29/2023.
Matt thought it was Anwar Sadat, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978, but matched nothing else. Matt bet nothing, hanging on to his $2,800.
Angela went with Elie Wiesel, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978, but matched nothing else. She lost $600 and finished with $8,800.
Brandon got it right. He bet $800 and won the game with $20,600. Brandon’s 3-day total is $59,398.
2 triple stumpers from RUSSIAN BODIES OF WATER:
($800) One ringed type of this pinniped is found only in Lake Ladoga, Europe’s largest lake
($2000) This 3-letter river in Russia’s European portion was once famed for the Cossacks who had settlements along its course
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “ASIA”
Trained as an engineer, premier Li Peng championed this in 1992; it would ultimately displace over a million people show
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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.