Final Jeopardy: Collections (6-23-25)
Here are some more clues from the 6/23/2025 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.
HISTORIC U.S. BUSINESSES ($400) Good timing! Famed for its sourdough, the Boudin French Bakery opened in San Francisco in this year
($600) Built of bricks of this in 1857, the R&R Market in San Luis, Colorado kept going strong after fires in 1895 & 1947
FOUND IN THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET ($600) Topaz is the traditional birthstone of this month
($1000) It’s from Gaelic words for “water of life”
YELLOW ($200) The video for this Cardi B song doesn’t have that much of the color you’d expect, though there is a cheetah
($600) TV cartoon makers like to grab us with yellow characters, like this dog pal of Finn on “Adventure Time”
WORLD CITIES ($800) Enjoy a glass or 2 of Marsala while visiting the town of Marsala on this island
($1200) This city on the Rhine was a world capital from 1949 to 1990
AROUND THE BODY ($400) Vermiform often precedes the name of this tube, a structure that extends from the first part of the large intestine
($800) From Greek meaning “one standing before”, it’s the gland in men below the bladder
($1200) Numbering a million or more, the islets of Langerhans are found within this organ
BEFORE & AFTER ($400) Waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous that are “wider than a mile” in a song from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” ANSWER show
RIP VAN WINKLE SLEPT THROUGH IT ($800) Rip snored through 1783, when the Treaty of Paris established this western border for the newly independent USA
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: SALUTE THE FLAG OF ECUADOR!
($200) The sun represents this resource; in 2022, a company announced it had found a lost city of it in Southeast Ecuador
($400) Admire the mighty condor–condor; feeding-wise, it is un carronero, this 9-letter word
($600) Ecuador’s embassy in London, once in the news as Julian Assange’s refuge, is in this area with a type of sir and a type of span in its name
($800) The ship’s mast is this ancient staff of Mercury to symbolize commerce; it got mixed up with another staff and now also reps doctors
($1000) The river on the flag is the Guayas, which as you might imagine, runs through this largest Ecuadorian port
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I was 3/3 on DD. As I am nearly 55, Andrew has no excuse for the third DD.
As to FJ, I had no answer, and zero idea. VJ, I do believe that you are being overly kind to Andrew, in re: his Final response. I was not so charitable, and thought he just took one of the most common surnames in the US, and crossed his fingers!
Props to Emily for coming back from a distant third. Andrew overreached on that big DD wager and ended up in the dumpster. I immediately thought of Andrew Carnegie for Final and didn’t go any further. My university library and others in the US bore his surname.
First DD was a cinch; I thought of Indonesia but probably would have said Italy for the 2nd; 3rd DD a total mystery.
They left several on the table I thought at least one would know: city/capital on the Rhine (birthplace of my mother’s father); men’s gland; islets of Langerhans; Ecuador’s embassy in England; ancient staff of Mercury (I heard it on the radio about 60 years ago and never forgot it); Ecuadorian port. I’m sure Dr Jason knew at least three of these!
I was lucky to find that 1899 “Interesting Facts” article, then find out one of the books in it is now in the Folger collection. I’m going to transcribe the highlights from that article later and put them in a separate post. It’s interesting stuff!
I found the quote! The comma gets in the way: “Hundreds, even thousands, of dollars may be paid for a copy of Shakespeare, or it may be bought for a dime.” (page 5)
That’s great, Rose. Thanks so much! That explains the Vassar reference — she wrote it in her thesis. As you pointed out, the sentence is on page 5 (which is page 10 in the pdf navigation). It is near the bottom of the page in the sentence that begins “Shakespeare, then is the Shakespeare…”
Sorry your comment didn’t publish sooner. I was already offline when you submitted it. Comments with hyperlinks always go into moderation. Obviously, spammers would have a field day if I let them publish, and the length of them would also blow the pages up! But I will always fix legit links up and approve helpful comments.
No problem and thanks for fixing the formatting! I totally get it, and glad I could share the source for you. I appreciated that the quote you found explains exactly why she used “thousands” as the upper limit at the time. And yeah the fact that it’s from her thesis definitely clarifies why they referenced Vassar, other than pointing to the USA.