Final Jeopardy: The 21st Century (9-24-25)

Here are some more clues from the 9/24/2025 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.

A PHRASE IN HISTORY ($400) After a defeat in battle, French king Francis I is quoted, “All is lost save” this, one-third of the West Point motto

COUNTRY MUSIC ($600) In 1971, 3 of the 5 Grammy Country Song nominees were written by this late master, not yet a movie actor

($1000) With tunes like “Whiskey And You” & “Tennessee Whiskey”, no surprise this singer-songwriter co-founded Traveller Whiskey

GEOGRAPHIC NAME GAME ($1600) Literally “the harbor”, this port city on the English Channel offers ferry service across “La Manche”

FILMS OUT OF HISTORY ($2000) More than $13 million was spent this 1962 David Lean epic that recreated the town of Aqaba on a beach in southern Spain

ON THE SILK ROAD ($2000) This Poe poem tells of the Central Asian emperor also known as Timur who controlled much of the route

MARINE BIOLOGY ($2000) The fish seen here is commonly called this hyphenated military rank due to its stripes’ resemblance to grade insignia

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: FELLAS IN NOVELLAS
($200) The hero of Daniel Keyes’ “Flowers for Algernon” is a 30-something factory worker; the title character is one of these furry fellas
($400) Hot-blooded Don José has some jealousy issues in this 1845 Prosper Mérimée novella; it inspired a Bizet opera of the same name
($600) A magistrate refers to the Frenchman Meursault as “Monsieur Antichrist”; Albert Camus opts for this title designation
($800) In this Steinbeck “gem”, a diver named Kino learns to be careful what one wishes for
($1000) For this title dead guy in a Leo Tolstoy novella, the unlikely cause of his death is hanging curtains

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