Final Jeopardy: American History (5-27-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (5/27/2025) in the category “American History” was:
In 1847, a decade before making national news, he was the plaintiff in a Missouri case against Irene Emerson
New champ Judith Friedman, , a software engineer from Los Angeles, CA, won a healthy $32,001 yesterday. In Game 2, her challengers are: Tyler Griffith, a criminal forensic scientist originally from Sturgis, MI; and Jackie Yang, a resident physician from New York, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Sometime in the Last 300 Years – Bonsai – Facts & The City – Facts & the City – You Can Go With This, You Can Go With That – Golf of America – There’s No I, but There’s “M-E”
Tyler found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Facts & The City” under the $800 on the 5th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,600, $1,400 more than Judith in second place. Tyler made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
You can likely find a good coffee in this South American capital at the base of 2 mountains, Guadalupe & Monserrate show
Tyler finished in the lead with $3,600. Jackie was second with $3,400 and Judith was last with $3,200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Historic Alaska – Literary Hodgepodge – Their First Top 40 Solo Album – Motivation – What the 20th Century Kids Were Sayin’ – You Go, Sister!
Jackie found the first Daily Double in “Literary Hodgepodge” under the $1,200 clue on the 5th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $6,200, $1,800 more than Judith in second place. Jackie bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
A painting by Dutch artist Carel Fabritius is at the heart of this 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction show
Tyler found the last Daily Double in “Historic Alaska” under the $1,600 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in last place with $4,800, $4,400 less than Jackie’s lead. Tyler bet everything and he was RIGHT.
Linking Prudhoe Bay to the Port of Valdez, this controversial project was completed in 1977 at a cost of $8 billion show
Tyler finished in the lead with $11,200. Jackie was second with $10,800 and Judith was last with $6,400. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS DRED SCOTT?
The UMKC School of Law has a detailed chronology of this infamous case. Dred Scott and his wife, Harriet, first sued for their freedom from Irene Sandford Emerson in 1846. That suit was dismissed on a technicality. They sued again in 1848 and the Circuit Court of St. Louis awarded the Scotts their freedom in 1850 but Emerson appealed and the decision was reversed in 1850.
The Scotts filed suit again, this time in 1854 in Federal Court. This was the suit that made it to the Supreme Court where, in 1857, it was held that the Scotts were not citizens of the United States and therefore had no right to sue. Taylor Blow bought the Scotts and freed them in court that same year. Dred Scott died a year later in 1858. His wife survived him by 18 years.
One thing I noticed was that Reverdy Johnson was on the defense team. He was the U.S. Attorney General for the short time Zachary Taylor was president.
Judith apparently misread the date and came up with Gary Powers. She bet and lost her whole $6,400.
Jackie thought of John Brown and the 1858 raid on Harper’s Ferry. She lost $10,500 and finished with $300.
Tyler was in the wrong decade with Ferguson. He lost $10,401 and was left with $799. That was today’s top final score and it made Tyler Griffith the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
GOLF OF AMERICA ($800) The road to Monterey was packed in 1947 as the pro-am named for this silver screen crooner first came to Pebble Beach
LITERARY HODGEPODGE ($1600) He covered crime for the “Los Angeles Times” before putting his detective Harry Bosch on the beat in L.A.
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “LITERARY GROUPS”
Windermere, Thirlmere & Grasmere are 3 of the sites that helped give a 19th century literary group this name show
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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.