Final Jeopardy: Literary Narrators (5-9-25)
Here are some more clues from the 5/9/2025 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.
OUR NEANDERTHAL RELATIVES ($200) This word for a prehistoric person became more common after an 1856 find of Neanderthal fossils in a limestone grotto
($600) It was long thought Neanderthals couldn’t do this, but the discovery they carried FOXP2, a gene linked to it, suggests they could
ARE WE HAVING FUN YET? ($200) The first battle in this game where you can dye suddenly is said to have been in rural New Hampshire in 1981 text
($600) Done with a rod & reel for fun not food, it’s the “S” in the organization ASA founded in 1933
($800) Holidog is the mascot for this Indiana theme park that’s been providing family fun since it was called Santa Claus Land
QUEEN STORY HOUR ($2000) Upon the death of King William III in 1890, she became Queen of the Netherlands, though her mom ruled as regent
AMERICANA ($400) Batter up for a 19th century “Base Ball” festival held in this town, on a farm where Pickett gathered his men before his charge
($800) As the story goes, after Louisiana’s governor offered $500 for the capture of this pirate, he offered $1,500 for the governor
($1600) On George Washington’s death, General “Light-Horse Harry” Lee described him as “First in war, first in peace, first in this
($2000) It was Mayor La Guardia who gave the marble lions outside the New York Public Library these 2 names after 2 important qualities
WORDS ABOUT WORDS ($800) It’s a word you use in place of a less desirable one–for example, “Gentleman’s Club” instead of… well, you know
THE 1913 ARMORY SHOW ($2000) Now at Philly’s Museum of Art, this Duchamp piece (No. 2) caused a huge scandal…Good Lord, steps! Where is my fainting couch?
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($200) It’s money held by an independent third party to facilitate transactions between home buyers & sellers
($400) Bensonhurst is a neighborhood in this borough
($600) Like the Buckhorn in Pinos Altos, New Mexico, it’s another name for a tavern, especially in the Old West
($800) I can give you a really good deal on this word, never mind that it means easily deceived or duped
($1000) A look of anger or frowning disapproval
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What a god-awful 2nd round. Zach disappeared after round one, and Dan took a bigger dive than any boxer or wrestler I’ve ever seen. Maybe he was fatigued from sitting through or playing five games in a taping day.
All 3 DDs were easy, IMO. Final very gettable but I blanked. Iliad, Inferno, and Paradise Lost made brief appearances in my mind. They left way too many easy-peasy clues unclaimed: prehistoric person; what Neanderthals couldn’t do; Dutch queen; Washington first in; word used in place of another; easily deceived or duped. (I may still have the newspaper with the special section of the transcripts of Nixon’s secret White House tapes with many examples of the word that preceded “deleted”.)
Nice rally by Kara, but still a lousy game IMO. As they say in tennis, Dan had that game on his racquet.
Don’t forget the Louisiana pirate, Howard. I’ll bet my Twix ice cream bar you got that one.
Well yes VJ, the Louisiana pirate was rather obvious, but yet one of those contestants even said Blackbeard.
We’ve got some bad news to deliver here. Zach becomes the latest Jeopardy contestant to receive a dismissal.
Fun Fact: Kara mentioned that her sister competed on Jeopardy back in 2013 and didn’t win. Today, Kara made her sister proud and now she is a Jeopardy champion. It looked Dan was going to run away with this one but he missed too many clues and Kara went on a tear and made a big move at the end of the round to secure a runaway.
What a wild game! The scores after the 12th clue of Double Jeopardy were Dan $10,000 Kara $200 and Zach $800.
After the 26th clue, she had $11,400, double the $5,700 Dan had left after some bad luck. A $2,000 clue and three $400 clues were left. The $2,000 clue and one $400 clue were runaways. Kara got the other $800 and finished with a runaway!
I was 3/3 on DD (helped that I am a Francophile, and visited Tahiti a short 23 years ago), but missed FJ, as I have never read The Decameron.
Good on Kara for her win. She has that “academic cute” look. I don’t recall whether they mentioned what is her area of study, but I hope she can string a few together!