Final Jeopardy: Supreme Court Decisions (8-19-25)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: The 2nd quarterfinal in the Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament that originally aired on 2/18/2025.

The Final Jeopardy question (2/18/2025) in the category “Supreme Court Decisions” was:

This landmark case was reported in the NY Times not on the front page but in “News of the Railroads”

2013 Kids Week winner Skyler Hornback, a chem. engineering Ph.D student orig. from Sonora, KY; 4x champ Margaret Shelton, a homemaker from Pittsburgh, PA; and 2022 College Championship winner Jaskaran Singh, a consultant from Plano, TX.

Round 1 Categories: On the Historic Top 40 – “Ism”s – That’s Not a Thing Anymore – Giving You the Creeps – Slinging Slang – Borderline

Skyler found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Borderline” under the $600 clue on the 17th pick of the round. He was in second place with $3,200, $400 less than Jaskaran’s lead. Skyler bet $1,500 and couldn’t think of a response so he was WRONG.

Now a tourist attraction, the demilitarized zone separating these 2 countries was officially abolished in 1976 show

WHAT IS VIETNAM?

Jaskaran finished in the lead with $5,600. Margaret was second with $2,800 and Skyler was last with $2,700. All clues were shown.

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There were 4 triple stumpers in the whole game:

“ISM”s ($400) It’s the art or sport of climbing high mountains & not necessarily the ones that gave it its name

($600) Sounds deadly, but it’s the belief that events in life are predetermined & people are powerless to change them

THAT’S NOT A THING ANYMORE ($800) No, Lucy, you can’t be in the show at this Vegas casino, as it got leveled in 2024 to, perhaps, be a new home for baseball’s A’s

TRIPLE “A” ($800) Meaning distant, it’s used to describe eyes with a distracted look