Final Jeopardy: Theories (7-24-25)
Here are some more clues from the 7/24/2025 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.
THE MYTH BEHIND THE ZODIAC SIGN ($600) It had a Golden Fleece
($1000) Pan, who jumped into a river & became a mer-Pan
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW? ($1600) Read “Lockwood’s Rule of Thumb & Forefinger” to learn this game; maybe we’ll be good enough to compete in its world championships
I’M BORED ($1200) Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere is told, “People are either charming or” this 7-letter word for boring (she’s the former)
A SENSE OF HENRI($1200)Citadel Henri, one of the largest fortresses in the Americas, was built by Henri Christophe, king of this country
($1600) Henri de Tonti explored the Mississippi with this Sieur & for a post he founded has been called “Father of Arkansas”
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($400) For this 1972 book Hunter S. Thompson did some sinning (& a lot of drugs) in Sin City
($800) In 1977 Jay Anson detailed the “Horror” here of trying to live with very unwanted houseguests
($1200) In a Jonathan Lethem novel, Lionel & his friends are called “Motherless” this place
($1600) A Henry James title took us to this “presidential” area of Lower Manhattan
($2000) In the 1930s Somerset Maugham & John O’Hara wrote of an “Appointment in” this city
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Well, I didn’t get the Henri I clue, either, despite my French études, myself!
I was 0/3 on DD, but got FJ. Recall 45 years ago, and the 1980 presidential election. George HW Bush called trickle down “voodoo economics”, but, how do you beat an opponent? Make him your VP candidate!
I don’t know, but, I don’t believe trickle down economics has ever been shown to actually work, in reality.
Sigh, another blowout. I knew the first DD, guessed the 3rd, and went down with Sarah on the 2nd. Didn’t matter in the long run, but if she’d hit that, it would not have been a runaway game. I guessed supply and demand for Final.
Got the Second School city; the thumb and finger game; but botched one of the words in the Paris Hilton series.
I thought you might have known the Citadel king, Howard, and Henri II’s wife. I guess Scott went with Marie Antoinette ‘s mother just to try someone!
History is not one of my strong fields. Actually, I did get that stumper about the wife, on a total guess, but I don’t see it in the stumpers anywhere. Also, the two Henri stumpers on page 2 both link to the same “Sieur”.
Okay, I guess I just thought they threw in some French history during all the years you studied French.
Henri II’s wife was a Daily Double that went to Scott. The Citadel king was a leader in the revolution that cost Napoleon beaucoup bucks. That led him to sell us the Louisiana Purchase for 3 cents an acre. 😲
Thx for the heads up on the Henri links. I fixed ’em.
Scott has now tied with Ryan Long with 16 wins and he also ties the 10th longest winning streak in Jeopardy history. He’s also in the leaderboard of legends. Scott will be back for the last game of Season 41 tomorrow. We’ll see if he can finish the season with another win or one of the challengers can end Scott’s streak.