Final Jeopardy: Countries of the World (8-5-25)

TODAY’S JEOPARDY! RERUN: Semifinal #1 of the 2025 Tournament of Champions that originally aired on 2/4/2025

The Final Jeopardy question in the category “Countries of the World” was:

About 80 miles from Vladivostok, its 11-mile land border with Russia is the shortest of that country’s 14 neighbors

The players in the first semifinal match of the 2025 Tournament of Champions are: 15x champ Adriana Harmeyer, an archivist from West Lafayette, Indiana; 4x champ Ryan Manton, a systems administrator from Columbus, OH;; and 4x champ Will Wallace, a game design director from Austin, TX;.

Round 1 Categories: Black Mystery Month – It’s Hyphenated – Celebrity Podcasts – Senators – Any Day of the Week – Big “C”ities

Ryan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Any Day of the Week” under the $1,000 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,000, $400 less than Adriana’s lead. Ryan bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

On “American Gods”, Ian McShane was Odin, also known as Mr. this guy show

WHAT IS WEDNESDAY?

Ryan finished in the lead with $5,200. Adriana was second with $4,400 and Will was last with $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:

BLACK MYSTERY MONTH ($800) One entry in the Charlie Mack Motown Mystery series is about an attack on this annual Detroit display that puts the moto in Motown

($1000) Black heroine Bree is caught up in the disappearance of a blonde in a novel called this, a “Syndrome” Gwen Ifill popularized

ANY DAY OF THE WEEK ($600) October 24, 1929, this “dark” day on Wall Street, kicked off the stock market crash

POETS & POETRY William ($800) Langston Hughes’ “Harlem” asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?… Maybe it sags like a heavy load. Or does it ” do this?

Carlos Williams’ ($1600) “The Red” this was inspired by the sight of one surrounded by white chickens in a backyard

ONCE UPON A FEBRUARY ($2000) February 25, 1948 saw a bloodless coup in this country, with the Communists taking over; Pres. Benes was allowed to stay in office

HERE’S 2 “U”! ($2000) As a noun, it’s a prophet or soothsayer; as a verb, it means to foretell omens