Final Jeopardy: Languages in History (7-22-25)
Here are some more clues from the 7/22/2025 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.
STATUES AROUND THE WORLD ($800) Rocking out in a square named for him in Johannesburg, this figure perpetually dances the Madiba Jive
TO PUT IT IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL TERMS ($1200) Anthropologist Leslie White wrote that “all human behavior originates in the use of” these archetypal representations
($1600) To not split up estates, many medieval families followed this 13-letter rule whereby the eldest son got all the land
ENDS WITH 3 CONSONANTS ($800) It’s an Eastern Orthodox church head honcho in places like Antioch or Moscow
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($200) A high wire gymnast terminating in a flying mammal
($400) A getaway concluding in a tailless primate
($600) Member of the ruling class or nobility finished off by a long-tailed rodent
($800) An Arabian peninsula capital city finishing with a feline
($1000) A world traveler closed out by a semi-aquatic weasel
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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.