Final Jeopardy: Literary Allusions (6-25-25)
Here are some more clues from the 6/25/2025 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.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL ($400) A tool with an angled blade to get unwanted plants out at the root is called a Cape Cod type of this
I LOVE YOU, MAN ($400) Royals, secret agents, Elizabeth’s Darcy, Bridget’s Darcy–Is there anything you can’t do?
FIGURES OF SPEECH ($600) This term for, say, a Triple Red Hot 7s or Mega Moolah machine doesn’t always apply, the way Vegas casinos look today
MUSICAL GEOGRAPHY WITH JOHNNY GILBERT ($800) “Century Boulevard (we love it), Victory Boulevard (we love it), Santa Monica Boulevard (we love it)
($1000) “He’s the hairy-handed gent who ran amok in Kent, lately he’s been overheard in Mayfair”
WORLD LEADERS ($1200) This dictator’s full name ended with al-Tikriti, Tikrit being the city near where he was born in 1937
Xs & Os ($800) A former member of the State Cattle Sanitary Board, William C. McDonald became the first governor of this state in 1912
($1600) Lacrimal & salivary are examples of these glands that produce secretions released through a duct
($2000) This soldier & historian’s works like “Anabasis” & “Hellenica” remain major sources of Ancient Greek history
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($400) Since 1970, this government agency has worked to reduce pollutants & to ensure that we have clean air, land & water
($800) A flavor enhancer “generally recognized as safe”, or a New York City sports & concert venue for short
($1200) In states including California & Texas, it’s a 3-letter name for carpool lanes (as opposed to express lanes)
($1600) Among other things, this plastics materials is used to make pipes and flooring
($2000) It’s the postal abbreviation for Australia’s most populous state
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To me, the Final Jeopardy clue was misleading. Eliza Doolittle lived in London and thus knew English. She didn’t need to learn the language, but she did need to learn the pronunciations used by members of the upper class. Asking about a language learner would have a different answer.
MIcah started out like a house afire, but Kiley and Greg rallied well, and made it a game. Technically Kiley should have wagered $1601, which would have totally locked out Greg. She had to hope Micah missed Final, which he did. And his $5K wager was a total mystery to me. A right answer still would have lost the game. He must have banked on Kiley going low. Bad career move, but ultimately moot.
First two DDs were pretty easy. Micah nailed the 3rd before I had a chance to think about it. “1913” and “1956” led me directly to Pygmalion/My Fair Lady/Eliza Doolittle. I have the original cast album of the musical, one of my favorite scores. Just loverly.
A few of the stumpers weren’t too horrible. It took Kiley 3 tries in the song category to determine that they wanted the title, not the location. I knew the Vegas machine; the Boulevards song; the hairy-handed gent song; the deposed dictator; and the 1912 governor (the category gave it away). The 3-letter clues were all easy.
My favorite song from that musical is Just You Wait, ‘enry ‘iggins. Eliza’s father is terrific too!
Which makes you responsible for getting him to the church on time.
“On the Street Where You Live” is my favorite.
“On the Street” is a good one, too, Howard. And I would get Alfred Doolittle to the church on time “with a little bit of luck” 🤣🤣🤣
3/3 on DD, but just couldn’t come up with DJ. I knew it was Pygmalion, but just zoned.
VJ, the pancreas has two different ways of excreting. One is the same as that clue – that’s like a highway, through ducts. The other way is the endocrine pathway. That “drifts” out; imagine kids running through backyards, across various home sites. The alpha, beta, gamma, and delta cells make up the endocrine pancreas. People think “pancreas = diabetes”, but, 90% of it’s job is making digestive enzymes!
Thanks, Jason. Hopefully, I’ll remember that if endocrine comes up 😆
Hey, you never know!
It was another competitive game, and with plenty of gettable clues to boot. As for me, I did well above average, but was stumped in FJ.
That was a decent game, even if the one-day champ spell wasn’t broken. There were 11 stumpers — only one more than the 10 or less I wished for. That’s a big improvement all the same!
Of those 11, I got 8: the 2 songs, the 2 figures of speech, the Darcy actor, the Tikrit world leader & the x&o state.
@Jason, I wouldn’t ordinarily be able to differentiate between the 2 types of ‘e’ glands but that x&o category made it a cinch.