Final Jeopardy: Buried at Westminster Abbey (7-1-25)
Here are some more clues from the 7/1/2025 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.
HOMOPHONES ($1000) One underling & 10 Jews praying
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ROMAN BRITAIN ($1600)Julius Caesar in the 50s B.C. but the Roman invasion of Britain began in earnest under this sickly emperor in 43 A.D.
($2000) In 306 A.D. while on a military campaign, Constantine was declared Emperor by his army in Eboracum, now this city of the north.
PLEASE WELCOME TO THE STAGE… ($800) In 2001 Nick Jonas, single digits in age, debuted in “Annie Get Your Gun”, starring this legend of country music
($2000) This title guy in “A Tale of the Christ” is wrongly accused of a crime by his former pal Messala & is enslaved
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: “SH”!
($400) To open an oyster shell or to remove a corn husk
($800) Really thin French fries can be matchsticks or these laces
($1200) Hebrew for “seven” gives us this word for a Jewish period of mourning; the use of low stools may be why you hear that you “sit” it
($1600) It’s the 2-word name of this Japanese dog breed
($2000) An Irish tune called “Mush-Mush-Mush Tural-i-addy” entions lathering someone with this type of cudgel
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0/3 on DD, but got FJ. I remembered him due to a rather risqué skit on Saturday Night Live. I’m not sure if I can share it here.
That’s a funny coincidence that Yorick was mentioned 2 shows in a row!
Sir Larry made The Boys From Brazil after his harrowing part as Dr Christian Szell, “der Weiße Engel”, (“The White Angel”) in Marathon Man. He played a Nazi in one (“is it safe”, reigniting millions of people’s fears of the dentist), so had to play a Nazi hunter in the next.
@Jason, I have no idea why your post went into moderation. Just saw it.
p.s. This was a clue in the 2/3/2015 Teachers’ Tournament game:
THAT’S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION ($800) Laurence Olivier wants an answer to this 3-word question in “Marathon Man”, then he strikes a nerve
It was a triple stumper but I remember it because Alex did an impression of the answer.
“Alas, poor Dave McBride, I knew him well.” Yorrick? Seriously? Buried in Westminster? After crashing on all 3 DDs, Final came to me in a second. BTW, according to Wikipedia, he was cremated and buried in Poet’s Corner in Oct 1989, not 1991 as stated in the clue. Didn’t see a lot of his films, but my favorites surely are “Sleuth” and “Boys from Brazil.”
Great comeback by Jason. I thought he got in in time on the 10 Jews praying clue, and was a whisker too late on the DD. All players were good, he was the best and got to try all 3 DDs. Methinks Jason will break the streak of one-and-done champs.
Knew the 10 Jews praying, guessed the high-paid TV star and the legend of country music. Knew 4/5 of the SH clues, all but the dog breed, which should have been the $2K clue, not the shillelagh.
VJ: thanks for the feedback on Bush v Gore. I’d forgotten about the appellate process and that the Fla court overturned the earlier result in Bush’s favor. My memory these days is hanging by a chad. 🙂
Howard, the clue isn’t wrong. They held a memorial service after he died in 1989 but didn’t inter his ashes over there until 1991.
His widow, Joan Plowright, died in January of this year.
🤣 about the chad.
Thanks so much. Wiki definitely wrong, then.
Two of my favorite Sir Larry roles are Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights” (1939) and George Hurstwood in “Carrie” (1952), based on a Theodore Dreiser novel. It also starred Eddie Albert and Jennifer Jones, as the woman they both fall in love with. Ray Teal was in it, too. That old boy was in so many films plus he was the sheriff on Bonanza.
“A Place in the Sun” with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters is another film based on a Dreiser novel.
I like the Sir Larry appellation, but of course he moved up the nobility ladder and became a Baron/Lord. Ken even called him Lord Olivier.