Final Jeopardy: Novel Characters (5-30-25)
Here are some more clues from the 5/30/2025 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.
DON’T MISS THE BOAT ($800) There are sailing & racing as well as garbage types of these flat-bottomed barges
($1000) The Coast Guard employs this type of “sensitive” ship to maintain buoys & navigational aids
THE SHAPE OF YOU ($1000) This 3-word idiomatic group is more likely to shoot each other than a deserter
TV SETTINGS ($400) The main apartment in “The Big Bang Theory” is at the fictional 2311 North Los Robles in this nonfictional California city
($800) The “90210” kids loved their mega burgers & pie at this alliterative diner
FROM OTHER LANGUAGES ($800) Need a place to stay out on the Great Plains? Check out one of these, from the Siouan for “dwelling”
NATIONS FOUND IN STATES ($400) Louisiana: this landlocked country of Asia
($1200) Virginia: this country that borders the Caspian Sea
($1600) North Carolina: this former Yugoslav republic, now its own country
MAMMALS ($1600) When threatened, this small antelope trumpets the double-talk call it’s named for
FILM FRANCHISES ($2000) He played paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1st and 3rd “Jurassic Park” films and returned in 2022 for the “Dominion” sequel
IT WILL HAPPEN ($2000) In 2025 the Tate Britain will have an exhibition about the beef between J.M.W. Turner and this artist, whose work is seen here (image)
BEFORE LONG ($1600) “Wooden” term for the one- or 2-sentence synopsis that explains a book or script plot
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: 20th CENTURY AMERICA
($200) In the early 1900s, long before anyone wondered about a Tesla’s range, GE introduced a network of these called electrants
($400) More serious than Powerball, the first peacetime one of these lotteries began October 29th, 1940, as the Secretary of War pulled out No. 158
($600) STS-1, the first space shuttle mission, carried Robert Crippen and John Young aboard the craft named this
($800) In 1962 this 114-year-ole institution was integrated amid campus riots
($1000) At the Supreme Court, Gideon v. Wainwright guaranteed this right that’s now in the Miranda warnings
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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My goodness, Heather took off like a house afire, then faded like a cheap suit. Chad did well to make it at least competitive.
I knew Dr. No premiered in ’62 (one of the better Bond films) and Connery was Scottish, so Final was a no-brainer. The DDs were unkind to me.
Some of the stumpers were not that challenging. The Marx Brother’s instrument; the -et guy; “Big Bang” city; Siouan dwelling; country bordering Caspian; Miranda right.
A couple of the stumpers are showing $000 values.
RE FJ from 2 years ago: I think I mentioned this on the original post, but out in the garage I have a copy of the 8-9-74 LA Times which I believe bears the same headline.
I fixed that, Howard. My son called when I was finishing this up. I got distracted when we got in some animated discussions. About yesterday’s FJ!, he said he came up with eminent domain and felt quite confident. This guy loves to contradict me 🤣 so I asked him if he would have stuck with it if I was there and said manifest destiny. He said he would have realized I was right. Then we went on to discuss the upcoming MobLand finale.
It was another great game, and Geoff remained as champion. Congratulations Geoff! No, at least in the films starring Sean Connery, James Bond was always portrayed as simply a British secret agent with hardly a reference to some Scottish heritage. I mean, that was what threw me.
It’s too bad Heather decided to go all in on the first DD she got. I realize she had to go all in the second time, but I think things would have played out differently if she hadn’t bet it all the first time.
Well sometimes it’s the luck of the draw VJ. As former President John F. Kennedy once said (after the failed Bay Of Pigs invasion): Success has a hundred fathers, but failure is an orphan”.
All I have to say is darn those daily doubles to Heather. She started out nicely but then the wheels came off and missed both daily doubles to finish in the red.