Final Jeopardy: Mythological Places (7-21-25)
Here are some more clues from the 7/21/2025 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.
SHAKESPEAREAN SETTINGS ($1000) Reasonably enough, for the whole play it’s “Athens and neighbourhood”
SWITCHING SPORTS ($800) Adam Sandler: “Looking for a new kind of boing in her career, at age 20, Krysta Palmer switched from trampoline to diving & won an Olympic medal off this, three meters up–that’s high enough for me”
The contestants got all the clues in CITIES IN PROXIMITY:
($400) It’s the “FW” in the Texas airport code DFW
($800) The Ambassador Bridge connects Windsor to this Midwest city
($1200) In the Keystone State, Wilkes-Barre is a twin to this electric city & birthplace of Joe Biden
($1600) These bustling twin cities might be collectively called Islamapindi
($2000) Canots rapides are boats that connect these 2 Francophone African capitals
CITIES ANSWERS show
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: VEGETARIAN TALK
($200) This last name that now more often precedes cracker used to precede -ism as a synonym for vegetarianism
($400) Before the 1944 coinage of this word, someone who abstained from dairy products as well as meat was a “strict vegetarian”
($600) You might think of this nut-based liquid as a recent invention, but the term’s been around since the 1300s
($800) It’s from Chinese words meaning “rotten beans”; enjoy
($1000) This word for a person who chooses to subsist on apples, oranges, pears & the like dates to the 1890s
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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Hi folks, it is time to make an amendment to Jeopardy questions about people. Giving only the last name is not a complete answer. Demand the first name as well!
How could they not get the $1000 Shakespeare location clue? In that same vein, I think someone never heard of Macbeth being called “the Scottish play”!
I was 1/3 on DD. I missed FJ, despite reading The Aeneid in school (in Latin, at that!), and referring to “le champs” this evening while taking out the dog (in my only defense, that was before the show).
Scott continues to steamroll. My previous statement of him being a “heater” has dissipated somewhat, apparently!
Ouch, another early beatdown by Scott That youngsta is the real deal. Jeff showed some early promise till he hit that unfortunately killer DD. All 3 came up with responses tonight that left me clueless. I wiped out on all 3 DDs and Final. Did know the diving board and the Shakespeare play, although I didn’t quite get the latter out in time.
As usual, it was still another runaway with Scott leaving the other contestants far behind. In fact, Scott had left them very far behind in this game. Well, I went with ‘The Hades’ for FJ. Perhaps it was a bad guess, but it was better than nothing.
Scott also made 50,400 just like in his 2nd game. He is now #13 in the all-time winnings. Only 4 games left this season.
Yeah, I forgot about that. He had $26,400 before FJ! in his second game, and successfully put $24K on the line. Maybe he was a littled spooked by the last 2 times to risk $20K or more, or maybe he’s just happy with $50K if he can get there. Anyway, I’m glad he got FJ!