Final Jeopardy: Ancient Builders (7-9-25)

Here are some more clues from the 7/9/2025 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.

Jeopardy! Recap for July 9, 2025 featuring Final Jeopardy bets and results. Today’s contestants: Scott Riccardi, Sarah Mulligan, Rahul Kak

WE ARE LITERARY FAMILY ($200) George R.R. Martin wrote, one in this family “always pays his debts… I think I will try and sleep. wake me if we’re about to die”

($1000) John Galsworthy’s “Saga” about this family is soon to get no less than its third glossy BBC/PBS adaptation

HOW NOW, DOW JONES 30 SYMBOL ($600) KO is a knockout of a symbol for this brand that stays liquid

($1000) HON is this company that’s into aerospace & also industrial automation, which doesn’t sound like a scary pairing at all

NUMBER, PLEASE ($1000) This rare isotope of uranium is the only naturally occurring fissile material, so be careful out there

SKETCHES GIVE STITCHES ($1200) She did some “ameezing” work as “pubLIZcist” Liz B. on “Kroll Show”

OLD REVIEWS ($400) In 1890 art critic Albert Aurier praised his skies, which “at times, expose radiating, torrid solar disks”

EARTH SCIENCE ($400) Derecho, a strong wind moving in a line across the Great Plains, was coined in contrast to this wind that twists & spins

($1200) If Norman Bowen’s headstone is made of this hard rock, he’d want you to know it’s magmatic, his position in a long-running debate

FRENCH PROVERBS ($800) Like “make a mountain out of a molehill”, to “faire d’une mouche un elephant” is to make an éléphante out of this insect

($1200) “Chien qui aboie e mord pas” familiarly tells us one of these “doesn’t bite”

TAKE A LONG WALK ($1200) “Da-da dum diddy dum diddy dum diddy da da da”: thus proclaimeth The Proclaimers in a ’93 hit about walking this title distance

($1200) This “Wild” author has said that much of the journal she kept while hiking the Pacific Coast Trail was “about how much my feet hurt” [Note: Thanks to Daybreak’s comment for pointing out an error on the name of the trail on Jeopardy!’s part. It should be the Pacific Crest Trail.)

($2000) Since the 9th century, pilgrims both religious & non have walked this network of Iberian routes known as The Way of St. James

OFF A NOT-SO-SHORT PIER ($1600) You’ll find the unique Whalebone Pier seen here (image) at Umhlanga beach in Durban, this country

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: SPORTY STUFF
($200) This alliterative apparatus used in Olympic women’s gymnastics is 16.4 feet long & is raised 4.1 feet from the floor
($400) This San Diego Padre amassed crazy hitting stats like a career .302 with 2 strikes & .415 facing Hall of Famer Greg Maddux
($600) In swimming, the butterfly stroke is performed with this mammal-named kick
($800) This UConn star had an intense spring in 2025 playing on her first national championship team & being picked first in the WNBA draft
($1000) There are triple & even quadruple versions of this figure skating jump that bears the first name of its Norwegian inventor

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