Final Jeopardy: American History (5-27-25)
Here are some more clues from the 5/27/2025 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.
SOMETIME IN THE LAST 300 YEARS ($1000) From 2008 to 2012 he was president of Russia, because Putin sure wasn’t still running things, no sir, it was this guy, 100%
FACTS & THE CITY ($1000) This Canadian provincial capital had fewer than 100,000 people in the 1880s but today is 3 million strong
HISTORIC ALASKA ($2000) Just as in the 1880s, when the Ancon & the Idaho made the first trips, the 500-mile stretch of Alaska called this is a cruise ship favorite
THEIR FIRST TOP 40 SOLO ALBUM ($1200) 2006: “The Dutchess”
($2000) 1985: “The Dream of the Blue Turtles”
MOTIVATION ($800) “A” is for this kind of therapy that associates unwanted behavior with misery, like when Cartman gets a shock each time he swears
($1200) Putdowns by the opposition that motivate sports teams or players are called this “material” for where they’re posted
($2000) Big motivators include the physiological needs like this pair that are in the lyrics to “People” (who need people)
WHAT THE 20th CENTURY KIDS WERE SAYIN’ ($1200) This word was big in 1966: Carole Bayer Sager & Toni Wine heard Simon & Garfunkel use it & came up with the same “Kind Of Love”
($2000) This 7-letter word first meant $10 in the 19th century & moved on to describe a 10-year prison sentence in the 20th
YOU GO, SISTER! ($400) Uncredited for years, 4 nuns at the Vatican Observatory are now known to have mapped half a million of these in the early 1900s
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
($2000) Crossing paths with the likes of Billy the Kid & often having to defend herself, Sister Blandina Segale got this punny nickname
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($200) It’s the nickname for DACA recipients
($400) A flat-topped & Spanish-named rock formation, like the Hunts one in Monument Valley
($600) This civilian adaptation of a miliary vehicle guzzled gas in the 90s but is back as a GMC Electric
($800) Scanty or insufficient
($1000) It’s a support at either end of a bridge; don’t drive into it
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I added the TS on Sister Blandina that I missed in the Sister category on page 2.
The answer is actually the title of a Death Valley Days episode, one of my favorite series. Amazon is one of the steaming services that has the entire series free with Prime (18 seasons!) Roku and Pluto do, too.
Wow, Ken butchered the former Russian president’s name – twice!
yes, lol, that’s why I linked to a YouTube. It sounded like Ken put an extra syllable in there.
Missed all of the game except Final. Knew it right away, probably because I knew the Dred Scott decision was in 1857 and also involved Missouri. Just watched Masters (man, those masters are head and shoulders above we commoners) and was glad to see 2/3 get FJ. I read the novella and saw the film 50+ years ago. I know a husband-wife couple who are about 50, OSU grads, and never heard of it in any form.
I was surprised to see Judith in a distant 3rd entering Final. She should have bet $0 or a minor amount.
Got the first and third DDs (the last one was a gimme and apparently resulted in Tyler’s eventual win).
Any old golfer worth his salt knows the Pebble Beach crooner. The Alaskan stretch is very well-known. Knew the “Dream of the Blue Turtles” album, that was a toughie. Any legit sports fan knows the material. I know the “People” lyrics by heart. The 1966 word I still use jokingly today. The 7-letter $10 bill word is pretty old-school but I thought someone might have known it.
It looks like the ‘House’ won today’s Jeopardy game as there wasn’t much of a payoff at all. Well seriously, ‘(Francis) Gary Powers’ for Judith’s FJ response (if I’m not mistaken)? No, he was the U-2 pilot who was shot down by the Russians on May 1, 1960. Well, I didn’t do all that well in today’s game, and went with a bad guess (Abraham Lincoln) for FJ.
Yes, you are not mistaken. Chris Matthews did the same thing on May 14th, 2012. They wanted the full name, but he didn’t say Francis. Lizzie O’Leary rang in and got the answer right.
When I lived in LA in the mid-70s, Powers operated the traffic helicopter for KNBC-TV. He died in a crash. The studio anchor Jess Marlow called him Frank and was visibly shaken after that unfortunate crash.
And we got a triple stumper in the final since it was a tough one.
Nikki was telling me early this morning that today’s date– 5/27/25 — is a palindrome. Coincidentally, Jackie’s chat story was about getting married on another palindrome — 4/20/24.
And Beverly Cleary was one of the “C” authors in today’s Sporcle quiz.
Isn’t every date between 5-20 and 5-29-25 a palindrome? Someone mentioned it’s the last time this century.
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
799 was the lowest total of the season. Tyler is the first player to win with less than 1,000 since Megan Wachspress on June 20, 2022 when she won with just 401. I hope Tyler earns a lot more than 799. I wonder what is the highest payout of this season.