Final Jeopardy: Languages in History (7-22-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (7/22/2025) in the category “Languages in History” was:
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V is said to have quipped, “To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, & to my horse” this
13x champ Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, NJ, brought his winnings up to $362,901 yesterday. In Game 14, he’s up against: Adriene Holland, a risk control manager from Powder Springs, GA; and Paul Ryan, a print marketing gen. manager from Weymouth, MA.
Round 1 Categories: Exodusters – Throwing Copper – Revising the Atlas – Beastly Endings – Put the Fries in the Bag – Bro
Scott found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Exodusters” under the $600 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $2,000, $1,200 more than Adriene in second place. Scott bet it all and he was RIGHT.
Mass black migration out of the south ramped up after Rutherford B. Hayes effectively ended this era in 1877 show
Scott finished in the lead with $11,600. Adriene was second with $3,800 and Paul was last with $3,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction – Statues Around the World – To Put It in Anthropological Terms – Millennials – On the Movie Soundtrack – Ends With 3 Consonants
Adriene found the first Daily Double in “Millennials” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick of the round. She was in last place with $5,800, $10,200 less than Scott’s lead. Adriene bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
Turning 41 in 2025, he’s the highest ranking millennial on the list of the world’s richest people show
Scott got the last Daily Double in “To Put it in Anthropological Terms” under the $800 clue with 8 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $23,200, $11,200 more than Adriene in second place. Scott bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
A grouping of only parents & their kids, this term was used in a book title about “Coming of Age in Oppenheimer’s Secret City” show
Scott finished in the lead with a runaway $30,000. Adriene was second with $12,400 and Paul was last with $9,800. All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS GERMAN?
The quote in today’s clue is widely attributed to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. However, on JS Blog, Ray Girvan has a translation of the first known instance of this quote from 1601, which doesn’t even mention German or the horse:
“When Emperor Charles V used to say, as I hear, that the language of the Germans was military; that of the Spaniards pertained to love; that of the Italians was oratorical; that of the French was noble”
The horse shows up more than 100 years later in Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” (1726). Additional quotes, listed in chronological order, demonstrate how the quote
was whittled down to its current form.
Paul got it right. He bet $3,200 and finished with $13,000.
Adriene went with English. That cost her $7,800 and left her with $4,600.
Scott wrote English, too. He lost $1,999 but won the game with the remaining $28,001. Scott has a 14-day total of $$390,902 now. Six more contestants will have a chance to send Scott back to Somerset County in the Garden State before the end of Season 41.
A triple stumper from each round:
EXODUSTERS ($1000) This longest-lasting black settlement in Kansas shares its name with a pharisee who helped bury Jesus with Joseph of Arimathea
ENDS WITH 3 CONSONANTS ($2000) This violet blue flower is a traditional table setting during the Persian New Year
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “COMPOUND WORD ORIGINS”
This compound word meant an astronomical object of exceptional brightness in 1910; it was soon applied to actors & athletes show
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Decent game, competent opposition, but I was hoping for a non-runaway. I throught Final might be Latin, and expected at least one of them to say that. Not a lot of stumpers; I got them on the 13-letter inheritance and the violet blue flower. The DDs were hardly brainbusters but I blanked on them.
There’s a variation that includes English and Latin. “I speak French to my ambassadors, English to my accountant, Italian to my mistress, Latin to my God and German to my horse” — Frederick the Great supposedly knew the Charles V quote and came up with his own version. Sometimes Charles V gets credit for this one, too.
As for the violet blue flowers, they’re usually associated with Easter where I grew up. I love them so much! I was in the Garden Center when they all arrived once and told myself, you better get out of here before you buy them all!
Today was the 85th anniversary of Alex Trebek’s birth.
Only 3 more games left this season. Scott is now #12 in the all-time winnings. He just surpassed Ray Lalonde and Scott now stands at over 390k in winnings.