Final Jeopardy: Cars & The Movies (5-28-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (5/28/2025) in the category “Cars & The Movies” was:
A fake speedometer was used in this make of car from a 1980s movie since the actual car’s speedometer didn’t go high enough
New champ Tyler Griffith, a criminal forensic scientist originally from Sturgis, MI, won $799 yesterday. In Game 2, he takes on these two players: Alice Welch, an epidemiologist from Queens, NY; and Thomas Sweeney, a survey technician from Morrow, OH.
Round 1 Categories: Firsts – Europe – Going to the Dogs – Business “&” Business – Entertaining Wolverines – Hat Chat
Tyler found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Europe” under the $800 on the 1st pick of the round. Nobody was on the board. Tyler bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
This monolith is a nature reserve for about 230 Barbary macaques show
Alice finished in the lead with $5,400. Thomas was second with $3,200 and Tyler was last with $2,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: 19th Century Americans – Double Vowels & Double Consonants – Crime Fiction – Festivals – A Time to Every Purpose – Nothing Good on TV
Thomas found the first Daily Double in “A Time to Every Purpose” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $4,400, $200 more than Tyler in second place. Thomas bet $2,000 and tried a half year. That was WRONG.
Academic Germans were the first to use this word to mean a 6-month period show
Alice found the last Daily Double in “Double Vowels & Double Consonants” under the $2,000 clue on the 20th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $10,200, $4,800 more than Tyler in second place. Alice bet $2,000 but drew a blank so she was WRONG.
The 2 predominant cultural & linguistic groups in Belgium today are the Flemings & these people show
Thomas finished in the lead with $8,800. Alice was second with $8,200 and Tyler was last with $5,400. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS A DeLOREAN?
Per IMDB trivia, In the 1985 film “Back to the Future”, a DeLorean vehicle was used as a time travel machine. Its original speedometer could reach 88 mph, but was designed to top out at 85 mph because of a 1979 traffic safety law. The fake speedometer had a top speed of 95 mph, allowing the movie DeLorean to reach 88 mph on the speedometer.
In the movie, a speed of 88 mph was needed to activate the flux capacitor, so the DeLorean could travel through time. Watch Einstein (the dog) become the first time traveler in the world on YouTube.
Tyler bet $3,401 and finished with $8,801.
Alice also bet $3,401. She finished with $11,601.
Thomas bet $7,601 and won the game with $16,401. Thomas Sweeney is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
FIRSTS ($1000) The 2024 film “Young Woman in the Sea’ is the story of this American, the first woman to swim across the English Channel
CRIME FICTION ($2000) James M. Cain had to fight his publisher over the title of this 1934 novel, which he said referred to delayed retribution
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “SPORTS & THE MOVIES”
A Geena Davis Institute study found shortly after a 2012 franchise film’s release, women’s participation in this sport rose 105% show
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Crashed and burned on the DDs, but got Final immediately. My oldest son probably knows every line from that movie. I recorded it off TV, and when my daughter was young, she asked me to “See Backafetcha.” Took me a minute to figure out what she meant.
Close game, but they left too many clues unanswered, several of which were not tough. The James Cain novel (that was difficult); 1955 alum (classic scene from excellent film); Lakota leader; Newport Festival genre; 5-year counts (a gimme).
It was another competitive game, and Thomas Sweeney became the new Jeopardy champion. Well, I performed about average in the game, and went with ‘Camaro’ for FJ. Actually, the film never interested me much so I really didn’t have a clue as to the car make.
That was too of a Final Jeopardy Answer.
Wow, that was a tense ending. I think Thomas would have been in the lead anyway if he hadn’t lost $2K to bad guesses after that last Daily Double.
I think that’s the first triple solve since April 2nd.