Final Jeopardy: Latin Phrases (7-31-25)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: Quarterfinal #4 of the 2025 Tournament of Champions that originally aired on 1/30/2025

The Final Jeopardy question (7-31-25) in the category “Latin Phrases” was:

After Camillagate, a fire at Windsor castle & marriage problems in her family, Queen Elizabeth II dubbed 1992 this

In QF #4 of the 2025 Tournament of Champions, the players are: Champions Wildcard winner Mehal Shah, a software engineer from Seattle, WA; 4x champ Ryan Manton, a systems administrator from Columbus, OH; and 3x champ Will Stewart, a political organizer orig. from Nashville, TN.

Round 1 Categories: U.S. Cities – Homonymble on Your Feet – Fitness – In the Air – Pre-Boots – Let’s Put 2 Things Together

Mehal found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “In the Air” under the $600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in last place with zero. Ryan had the lead with $2,400. Mehal bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT (and tied with Will).

These avians can rotate their wings to generate lift while flopping both up & down, enabling them to hover in the air show

WHAT ARE HUMMINGBIRDS?

Mehal finished in the lead with $4,200. Ryan was second with $4,000 and Will was last with $2,200. All clues were shown.

Continue to the original recap with the rest of the game, more information about Final Jeopardy! and 2 additional triple stumpers.

These are the stumpers that are on page 2 of the original recap:

U.S. CITIES ($800) Named for a city in France, this state capital lies along the Winooski River

($1000) Take a load off in this third-largest Iowa city that hosts a famous jazz festival honoring native son Bix Beiderbecke

FITNESS ($200) Sets of these to elevate you & raise your heart rate include L.A.’s Prospect ones & D.C.’s Exorcist ones

($1000) As a model of the universe opposed to the Big Bang, it’s in trouble; as a low-intensity type of cardio training, it’s still popular

PRE-BOOTS ($400) Nicollette Sheridan & Elaine Hendrix both played Alexis in 2019 on this nighttime soap, but Joan Collins was enough in 1981

COUNTS & COUNTESSES ($400) Before her contemporary Charles Perrault, Countess d’Aulnoy used this name for a type of story, conte de fées in French

($800) Countess Jacqueline des Ribes was one of the original women Truman Capote compared to these birds

($2000) Found in The Hague, one of Holland’s great museums was the house or “huis” of this man & there’s a portrait of him inside

COMMUNICATION ($400) Rhyming synonym for a namecheck

AUTHORS ($400) Andrew Neiderman has written 60+ books under the name of this “Flowers in the Attic” author plus her bio, “The Woman Beyond the Attic”

($1200) Early novelists often titled books after a character; see Henry Fielding’s “Joseph Andrews”, “Jonathan Wild” & this 1749 tale

($2000) In 2023 an amateur scholar found a creepy story by this Irish novelist, “Gibbet Hill”, from an 1890 newspaper & unpublished since

STARTS & ENDS WITH THE SAME VOWEL ($800) Shapely name for President’s Park South, a 52-acre location near the White House used for gatherings & other activities