Final Jeopardy: Movie Directors (5-8-25)
Here are some more clues from the 5/8/2025 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.
UNOFFICIAL STATE NICKNAMES ($800) “The Apache State”
HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS? ($600) This Chinese dish is made by stirring beaten eggs into chicken broth
WOMEN IN THE BIBLE ($600) In Genesis, Potiphar’s wife tempted this man by saying, “lie with me”; he refused & was jailed
EMPTY WORDS ($1200) In architecture, it’s a space left in a wall for a door or window; you might also see it written on a check
($1600) The past tense of a verb meaning to abandon military duty, as an adjective it means unoccupied
EYE ON ASIA ($800) China’s Sichuan Province is famous for hot & spicy cuisine like dan dan noodles & this “Palace Guardian” chicken
OLD MacDONALD HAD A WIND FARM ($1600) Everywhere a whoosh whoosh; you’ll find the largest U.S. wind farm, Alta Wind Energy Center, in this state’s Tehachapi Mountains
($2000) E-I-E-I… this device! There’s one mounted atop each MacDonald-owned turbine tower to measure wind speed
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($200) “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” by this rocker fittingly mentions a boss in the lyrics
($400) Taylor Swift seems to be taking the odd angle of apologizing to an ex in her hit “Back to” this month
($600) In “Stairway to Heaven”, Robert Plant sange of the queen of this month; in 2017 he would devote an entire song to her
($800) I choo-choo chose this band whose song “Drops of Jupiter” says, “She listens like spring & she talks like June”
($1000) This group named for an elemental trio asked “Do you remember?” in the song “September”
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Not much of a game. Michael had a chance to prevent a lock game but couldn’t get over the hump. Christen was a non-entity who waltzes back to DC with $2K. Tough but fair final. Just couldn’t think of the right one. I did see 2 of her 3 nominated films. First DD super-easy, others not so much. Thought the 2nd might involve the UAW but really didn’t know.
They left a number of gettable clues on the table. The largest Ryukyu island; Apache state; eggs & broth dish; wind measurement device; Tehachapi Mountains state; Stairway to Heaven queen’s month. $7600 right there for the taking.
It looks like Christen is the second contestant to have synesthesia. The first contestant to have that condition was Jessica Dell’Era from 2/16/2012 in the Winter Teachers Tournament.
It was another exciting game with Dan again emerging as the champion. In fact, the only way Dan was going to lose was if he had bet the store in FJ. Well, I performed a tad above average in the game, but was clueless in FJ.