Final Jeopardy: American Novels (7-17-25)
Here are some more clues from the 7/17/2025 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.
THERE’S ALWAYS A TIME ($1000) Good afternoon, Mirabilis jalapa are commonly known as these timely flowers because they don’t open until late in the day
A HOTEL MOST UNUSUAL ($1600) Temps hover below freezing in this country’s ICEHOTEL, built anew each year with ice harvested from the Torne, its northernmost river
BRITISHISMS ($1200) Skive can mean these 2 things, in the middle of a 4-part song title by the Godfathers; you can’t skive the other 2
OPERA CHARACTERS ($800) The Nibelung are a race of these enslaved by Alberich, who uses them to find gold
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: MOVIE TITLES IN ITALIANO
($200) 2010: “Mangia prega ama”
($400) 1972: “Il padrino”
($600) 2003: “Sotto il sole della Toscana”
($800) 1969: “Un colpo all’italiana” (The 2003 remake used the English title)
($1000) 2017: “Chiamami col tuo nome”
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Rough day for me. 1/3 on DD, and missed FJ. Didn’t even have a clue. Anything I know of Ellison is from Jeopardy!, anyhow. Never read anything by him.
I did get half the TS, though.
I’ve spoken before of “coolers”, but I think Scott is a “heater”. After the first round, his games seem to have a high amount of money among the 3 contestants. It looks like a recurrent thing, to me.
Oh, the humanity! That game was over in the first minute. Final was too tough, and a subtle reminder that “Invisible Man’ and “The Invisible Man” are different titles. First DD a cinch, 2nd impossible. Was somewhat familiar with the 3rd one but couldn’t think of it in time.
Beat them on the Joe Buck clue (saw the film as soon as it came out); the Puccini opera; and the timely flowers.
Will Scott have to wait extra long to participate in TOC since he us carrying over into next season??
We don’t know if he’s gonna carry over. There are 6 more games to go.
Like Monday, today is not that day for a humongous payday. Maybe, tomorrow will be the charm.
40,000 is the highest score going into FJ! this season. Scott would have set the new 1 day record payout score this season if he gotten it right. Second time this week that one player didn’t make it to FJ! because this game has belonged to Scott. He will be back tomorrow for the last game of the week before the season finale week.
Unfortunately, Chad was the player who was really victimized by Scott. He’ll get the positive 2k for finishing as a runner-up.
How do you figure that? Chad got too deep in the hole all by himself.
Well VJ, Chad tried to get back on the plus side but he kept getting beat by Scott on the buzzer. You could tell that Chad knew some clues but Scott was dialed in on the buzzer.
I saw something about that icy vacation spot years ago. It made a big impression on me as one thing I would definitely not do, even if I had that kind of money to throw around!
Scott really excelled today. He’s been quite good at the lit categories so I guess that’s what led him to bet big in FJ! I was hoping he would stand pat and go over $300K though.