Final Jeopardy: Places of Disaster (8-4-25)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: Quarterfinal #6 of the 2025 Tournament of Champions that originally aired on 2/3/2025

The Final Jeopardy question in the category “Places of Disaster” was:

In 1883 an old sailor didn’t know what its name meant but believed the natives “named it from the sound”

Here is our last group of quarterfinalists in the 2025 Tournament of Champions: Champions Wild Card 2nd place winner* Drew Goins, a journalist from Honolulu, HI; 4x champ Amar Kakirde, a policy analyst from Lake Hiawatha, NJ; and 3x champ Lucas Partridge, a school counselor from Las Vegas, NV.

*Drew Goins as the alternate is taking Lisa Ann Walter’s place in the ToC because she had a schedule conflict

Round 1 Categories: The Man, the Myth, the Legend – Kid Stuff – Just Take the W – Voyaging Through History – Nicknames – Better Luck Next Time

Amar found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Voyaging Through History” under the $800 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,400, $1,000 less than Drew’s lead. Amar bet it all and he was RIGHT.

Magellan’s flagship on his epic journey had the Spanish name that honored the Father, Son & Holy Spirit show

WHAT IS TRINIDAD?

Drew finished in the lead with $5,400. Amar and Lucas were tied in second with $3,800. 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:

THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND ($800) In another world, perhaps he’s Washita William, but in ours he’s this Texas legend who dined on nitroglycerin & barbed wire…once

BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME ($400) In 1955, after 5 previous losses, this NL team finally beat the hated Yankees in the World Series

($1000) After losing the 2023 WNBA Finals, in 2024 the New York Liberty won it all with this star’s free throws sealing the deciding game

ANAGRAMMED NUCLEAR PHYSICS ($1200) A nucleus formed by the radioactive decay of a parent nuclide: HATED RUG

BRAND NAMES ($1200) Jennifer Aniston has been a spokesperson for this drugstore brand of moisturizer, saying she’s used it since she was a teen

($1600) The largest branded marketer of baby apparel in North America, it also owns Oskosh B’Gosh

5-SYLLABLE WORDS ($800) It’s the process when your dead skin is actually a-peeling

SUBTITLES OF BOOKS ($2000) With a title from an 1890s song, this 1980s book is subtitled “Politics, People & the Aids Epidemic”

ANCIENT ROME IN THE MOVIES ($1200) Emil Jannings & Peter Ustinov both burned up the screen as this emperor in films based on Henryk Sienkiewicz’ “Quo Vadis”