Final Jeopardy: Historic Names (6-13-25)
Here are some more clues from the 6/13/2025 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.
DESCRIBING THE OLYMPIC EVENT ($200) Perform for 9.58 seconds; tie world record set in 2009; point to sky
JAMAICA ($2000) Jamaica’s economy is dominated by tourism, remittances and exports of this mineral, the chief ore of aluminum
MOVIE SEQUELS ($1200) “The Matrix” sequels all had words starting with “Re” in their titles: “Reloaded”, “Revolutions” &, in 2021, these
($2000) Bruce Campbell gave us the now iconic line “Gimme some sugar, baby” in this “Evil Dead” sequel
COMPLETE THE QUOTE ($1200) James Brown meant dudes like Clyde Stubblefield when he said he was gonna “give”this musician “some” before a solo
($2000) Hamlet wondered about taking “arms against” these metaphoric waters “and by opposing ending them”
(Watch Kenneth Branagh say the line in Hamlet’s famous soliloquoy)
BILL THE CAT ($800) Not sure how kitty used my account on this service advertised by Gronk & the Mannings, but he lost me $150 on the Breeders’ Cup
($1600) It sure didn’t take the cat long to hoover up $200 worth of the Ossetra type of this
($2000) Looks like Dr. Patches Adams got himself a cat scan! That’s also called a CT scan– CT, short for this– & that heart one cost $6K!
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: DIE HARD
($200) If you want to roll 8 the hard way in craps, your dice need to show these 2 numbers
($400) An instruction manual for this game listed its contents as “5 dice, dice cup, 10 bonus chips, score pad”
($600) Referring to its Pop-O-Matic dice device, a board game has used the slogan “there more” this “in the bubble”
($800) A game called Ludus duodecim scriptorium, 12-lined game, was the ancient Roman version of this game that uses 2 dice
($1000) This game named for a Tanzanian island give you 3 dice & 20 chips; lose all your chips & you’re the winner
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So, the new champ, her brother is the numbers guy political reporter, Steve Kornacki.
0-3 on DD, but got FJ, as a guess more than anything.
And, not for nothing, but, if I notice how many TS, that means there’s a LOT.
Close game that Katie won only because of the reversal. At first I thought she was robbed, then I said no, it has to be precise, since it’s a name or a title, but ultimately she got credit. Even though it may have cost him a future ToC trip, Matt was very gracious in defeat and applauded her enthusiastically.
DDs killed me, but 1824 DOB and Maryland led me to Civil War and Harriet Tubman fairly quickly.
Too many stumpers. Some I thought were simple, some not: French hyphenated composer; 9.58 second Olympic event (come on); aluminum ore. Not sure if I’d have gotten credit for the CT scan, as my “C” word was slightly different than the one they gave. Probably not.
Wow, there were sure plenty of missed clues in today’s game, but Katie emerged as the new Jeopardy champion.. Well, I sure didn’t do well in today’s game, and didn’t have much of a clue for the FJ response.
That reversal means that we still can’t catch a break this season.
Wow, rough game even though it started out with only 2 stumpers in the first round!
I got that Chopin Opus DD from the word “berceuse” because of a French Christmas carol, “Un Flambeau Jeannette Isabella”, which has the line “Courons au berceau” – let’s run to the cradle.
Ken misspoke when he said it was named after a little girl.