Final Jeopardy: Vocabulary (9-15-25)
Here are some more clues from the 9/15/2025 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.
IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ($800) A 1928 Northwest Airways ad offered early passenger service between Minneapolis-St. Paul & Cicero Field in this city
OPPOSITES ($200) Benjamin Moore sells these 2 opposite paint types, one for indoors, one for outdoors
SESAME STREET ($400) Throughout the years, lots of people have stopped by to visit Sesame Street, like Alex Trebek & Ken Jennings. Why can’t they leave a grouch alone?! But the very first was this guy, who recited the alphabet for us
($600) Oh, hello there, me, Alistair Cookie, host of this segment where me present drama for viewers to devour, like “Me, Claudius” & “Chariots of Fur”
METAL MANIA ($1200) Atomic number 29, this reddish metal has an antimicrobial effect on bacteria & is used to coat frequently touched surfaces
The Daily Box Scores are released at 8 pm Eastern
SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: WARS & BATTLES
($200) Don’t get your history from ABBA: Napoleon didn’t surrender until 4 week after this disastrous battle
($400) A turning point of this war was the 11-month Siege of Sevastopol, which ended in September 1855
($600) George Orwell fought on the Aragon front of this war & recounted his experiences in “Home to Catalonia”
($800) At the Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great delivered a devastating blow to the Persian forces of this King III
($1000) This leader of Germany’s Afrika Korps was called Der Wüstenfuchs at home
ANSWERS: show
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Late start again due to MNF. All 3 DD wagers were daring, none moreso than the last one. (Only one I knew was the first.) As a very active Facebook user, I figured out Final about halfway through the think music, secure in the knowledge that Quakers are also known as Friends. I was 100% certain that a youngster like Ryan would know that one. Darn shame, cost him over $33K. Maybe we’ll see him again.
Knew the Inner Harbor city, guessed the Brit director, Cicero Field city wasn’t that impossible, neither was the Cookie Monster segment.
I was thinking too bad they didn’t watch/read some Al Capone stuff. They’d know where Cicero is in a heartbeat.
3/3 on DD, but drew a blank on FJ.
I am a big fan of the Jam and the Style Council, and Paul Weller as the lead of each. “Long Hot Summer” by the Style Council is an absolute favorite, and this, right now, is the time of the year he sang about.
IMHO, “nonfriend” may have been used a time or two since the days of Chaucer, but it was certainly not good English. In fact, I’m sure that I won’t find such a word in my dictionary. Anyways, I couldn’t come up with any response for FJ. Well, it was another great game, and kudos to Paolo for the correct FJ response!
You will find it in the New Oxford American Dictionary, Rick. They picked it for their 2009 Word of the Year.
I’m pretty sure that “unfriend” won’t be found in the American Heritage dictionary that I had since the 1970s. However, as you pointed out VJ, it is now in common use (as per the New Oxford American dictionary).
With a score of 27,600, Ryan has to be in the running for the Second Chance competition later this season. He had a big lead but Paolo got it right and Ryan didn’t and Paolo survived a scare. It’s most likely that we’ll see Paolo in this year’s TOC.
Yes, Ryan was very sharp … pun intended 🤣🤣🤣