Final Jeopardy: Science Fiction (6-2-25)
Here are some more clues from the 6/2/2025 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.
& WE’RE “OFF” ($1000) The Magnetic Fields sang, “My heart’s running ’round like” this, “all around the barnyard falling in & out of love”
FASHION DESIGNERS ($800) The documentary “Unzipped” followed this designer and the production of his Fall 1994 collection
CONNECT 4 ($600) Lexington, Carl Vinson, Saratoga, John F. Kennedy
EXPLORERS & EXPLORATION ($600) In 1682 the explorer La Salle claimed all the land drained by this river & its tributaries for France
($1000) Antonio Pigafetta, who chronicled the 1519-1522 Magellan expedition, was the first to document the Cebuano language in this island group
UNCANNY VALLEY ($400) Cannabis is grown in this country’s Bekaa Valley, which lies between Syria & the Mediterranean
($1200) A bridge in this “saintly” valley of Central California was the last link of the Transcontinental Railroad
ART & ARTISTS ($400) Appropriately, the Italian artist Canaletto painted for tourists scenic views of this city where he was born
($1600) He showed contemporary women nude in “Olympia” & “Déjeuner sur l’herbe, causing an uproar
HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO ($800) Stories say the water this legend of the Revolutionary War carried was for swabbing hot cannons, not just drinking
($1200) Though from fiction & not folklore, the story of the boy who plugged a leak in this is remembered in several statues in the Netherlands
($2000) In 1938 Zerai Deres became a hero to Eritreans & Ethiopians by attacking Fascists at a statue called the Lion of this
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($1200) Christopher Wren’s St. Paul’s epitaph “si monumentum requiris circumspice” means “If you seek his monument”, do this
($1600) Meaning “Where are you going?”, it’s also the title of a Deborah Kerr / Robert Taylor flick from 1951
($2000) Something that goes on indefinitely could be ad infinitum or this Latin phrase with a “uu” in it
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I’m always a bit quizzical when one person says “underwhelming” and another says “exciting”.
I don’t have much more, at ALL, to add. I do, however, agree with Howard.
Pretty underwhelming game with loads of misses and stumpers, but IMO these clues were tough. I winced when Kyle uttered “From Here to Eternity” as Latin for “Where are you going?” I knew that one.
SciFi not my thing, but that was a legit clue, I suppose. Blew all the DDs. Got the Unzipped designer from his photo; Cebuano island group (total guess); Bekaa Valley country; the plugged leak. Abbi blew the $800 Notice clue by not giving a letter as her response.
It was another exciting game, and Geoff became a 3-day champion. Congratulations Geoff! As for me, I didn’t do well at all during the game, and then went with ‘A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court’ for FJ. Oh well! I suppose that there is always tomorrow
Kyle’s score going into Final was 5,200. Today was the first game since March 7, 2025 when we had unplayed clues. I wish Abbi took a shot at that 1600 clue in the Hero category. Had she gotten it, she would have been around for FJ! and to be in score contention and possibly a chance for a potential victory.
The most likely reason she didn’t buzz in on that clue, Kevin, is because she wasn’t sure about it and didn’t want to go deeper in the hole.
Some of those stumpers were ridiculously easy. The clues on some others were clunky, like the “legend” with the water. I didn’t even realize it was referring to a person. Watching Kyle lose his lead was awful but in the end, it didn’t matter when he missed FJ!