Final Jeopardy: Chemical Element Names (6-20-25)

Here are some more clues from the 6/20/2025 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.

LAW REVUE ($800) Leo Bloom sings a song in court to Max Bialystock in this musical; at the end of it, the judge sends them to Sing Sing

FAMOUS NAMES ($400) Big on starting stuff, he established the Ithaca Public Library, founded a local college &, oh yeah, Western Union

($1000) In the early 1900s, the world counted on this German to provide the first successful detector of individual alpha particles

ALSO A SPICE OR SEASONING ($1000) “Up” often follows “this rhizome when it’s used to mean to make lively

MILES AWAY ($800) The site of recent warfare, Goma in the Congo is 60 miles from Kigali, the capital of this country

KEEP IT CLEAN ($200) You can be “neat as a pin” or “neat as” one of these, probably not referring to the mushroom type

($1000) Add an “A” to the start of a word from the Greek meaning “to make rotten” & you get this word meaning free from disease or germs

LOSING VEEP CANDIDATE ($1600) 1972: we salute this former director of the Peace Corps who ran with George McGovern

($2000) Running with Michael Dukakis, he had the mic drop moment of telling Dan Quayle, “You’re no Jack Kennedy”

5-LETTER WORDS ($2000) Rather than a toga, woman of Ancient Rome often wore a long, loose robe or tunic called this

BRIT BITS ($800) Seen here, Windermere is one of the bodies of water that give this scenic area its name

($2000) Its name referring to a former abbey, the palace of this house in Edinburgh is the monarch’s official residence in Scotland

19th CENTURY LITERATURE ($400) Leaving behind “a smouldering suffocating vapour”, Mr.Krook in Dickens’ “Bleak House” dies in this weird way

($1200) The great-aunt of this Thomas Hardy hero says it would have been better if he’d died with his mom & dad

($1600) In this Henry James novel, Isabel Archer, with a choice of suitors, marries the controlling Gilbert Osmond

ZOMBIE A-GO-GO ($800) Real names are frowned upon in this flick where Emma Stone is known as Wichita & Jesse Eisenberg is Columbus

($1200) In this zom-com Simon Pegg tells Nick Frost, “We may have to kill my stepdad”

($1600) This 2013 flick with Nicholas Hoult was actually sort of a zombie “Romeo and Juliet”

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: I’M WORRIED ABOUT MY FISH TANK
($200) My tank has a buildup of blue-green algae aka this–& not the fun, non-gross kind kids can make out of glue
($400) I got carried away at Petco & now my tank is overcrowded; the CDC recommends at most one inch of fish per one of these measures
($600) I bought fish food that floats but I need food that sinks to the floor of the tank; my pictus catfish is this 2-word kind of eater
($800) My fish are looking lethargic; I’d better test my tank water for toxic levels of NH3, this chemical compound
($1000) Uh-oh, I forgot to dechlorinate my tank water using both a sediment filter & a semipermeable membrane, via this 2-word process

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