Final Jeopardy: Famous Buildings (7-23-25)

The Final Jeopardy question (7/23/2025) in the category “Famous Buildings” was:

Opened in 1902, it’s 87 feet in width on the 22nd Street side & less than 7 feet wide at its narrowest point on 23rd Street

14x champ Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, NJ, has now won $390,902, only $9,098 away from $400K. His challengers in Game 15 are: Gerri Budd, an adjunct professor & small business owner from Nutley, NJ; and Andrew Crowley, a freelance writer from Henderson, NV. They’d be wise to try to find the Daily Doubles before Scott does and runs away with another game!

You can see all of Scott’s runaway scores by the images on the Who Won Jeopardy page

Round 1 Categories: Try Me a River – Blank Canvas – No Longer in Print – Potpourri – Word & Phrase Origins – A Javier Bardem Retrospective

Gerri found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Word & Phrase Origins” under the $800 clue on the 12th pick of the round. She was in last place with negative $1,400, Scott was in the lead with $3,000. Gerri bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.

It’s the 1714 document regarding insurgents that’s a phrase sometimes used in an angry confrontation show

WHAT IS THE RIOT ACT?

Scott finished in the lead with $7,600. Andrew was second with $5,800 and Gerri was last with negative $800. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: Russian History – Great Literature Before 2000 – All About Animals – Here Comes Truffle – Not Our Wedding Song – 3 “O”S

Scott found the first Daily Double in “Great Literature Before 2000” under the $1,600 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $12,000, $6,200 more than Andrew in second place. Scott bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

A man makes numerous failed attempts to gain access to the title edifice to improve his situation in this Franz Kafka novel show

WHAT IS “THE CASTLE”?

4 clues later, Scott landed on the last Daily Double in “All About Animals” under the $1,200 clue. He was in the lead with $18,600 now, $12,800 more than Andrew in second place. Scott bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.

The nine-spotted species of this beetle is the state insect of New York show

WHAT IS A LADYBUG?

Scott finished in the lead with a runaway $32,200. Andrew was second with $9,400 and Gerri was last with $3,200. All clues were shown.

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TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT IS THE FLATIRON BUILDING?

The Flatiron Building was originally called the Fuller Building for the company that built it. Its nickname came from a resemblance to the flat irons (or sad irons) used at the turn of the century. Brittanica says the building “is situated on a tight triangular site in the Madison Square Park area of Manhattan.”

The video above has more info about the building’s construction, as well as showing the 1904 photograph taken of the Flatiron Building at twilight by Edward Steichen, which was the subject of a 2024 Jeopardy! clue.

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Gerri got it right. She bet $3,100 and finished with $6,300.

Andrew came up with Tribeca Building. Tribeca is a neighborhood, aka the “Triangle Below Canal Street.” He lost his $400 bet and finished with $9,000.

Scott also got it right. He bet $7,808 and won the game with $40,008. Scott’s 15-day total is $430,910.

2 triple stumpers from HERE COMES TRUFFLE:

($1600) Flatter than linguine and with a silenter “G”, this pasta is a traditional base for truffles

($2000) Between January & March, bianchetto truffles are found in this Italian region just south & east of Tuscany

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL”

Henri Murger, who was broke & lived in a freezing attic apartment in Paris, wrote the source material for this 1896 opera show

WHAT IS “LA BOHÈME”?

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