Final Jeopardy: Medieval Names (9-29-25)
Here are some more clues from the 9/29/2025 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.
PROPOSITIONAL PHRASES ($1000) Come up & see my these, designs printed from acid-incised metal plates
SCIENCE & NATURE ($1600) Subatomic particles called hadrons are made up of these, anti-these & gluons
($2000) Warm-blooded animals are described by this 11-letter adjective, meaning they generate & maintain their own body heat
I MARRIED MY CO-STAR ($2000) Alan Ruck: “I definitely found out that it’s good for a TV & film actor to do a little theater when I met my wife, this luminous actress, as we co-starred in “Absurd Person Singular” on Broadway”
NEAR & FAR PHRASES ($1200) Far: MTV’s first game show, it had categories spewed from the Zenith TV in Ken Ober’s basement
($1600) Far: You & I won’t agree on much if there’s this watery feature between us, such as the Saronic one
($2000) Near: This saying of the guy with the property beside Robert Frost’s ends the poem “Mending Wall”
MENTOR ($800) This important annual ritual of the Plains Indians, that celebrated a celestial body, involved the support of spiritual mentors
($1600) He called Gwendolyn Brooks’s “A Street in Bronzeville” “the biggest little $2.00 worth of intriguing reading found in bookshops”
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($200) This loyal friend’s original last name was going to be Puckle until it was changed to Granger
($400) Married to a minor aristocrat injured during World War I, she soon ignites new passions in a 1928 novel
($600) Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Lavinia” retells the story of this work by Virgil, but from the wife’s point of view
($800) Lenina Crowne, an upper-caste hatchery worker, is a character in this dystopian work
($1000) The daughter of a judge, this new girl in town has Tom falling for her at first sight
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Great comeback by Zach, well-played. He hit that last DD for $2K and took off from there. I thought the 1st/3rd DDs were easy. Guessed the country on the 2nd but not the city. I thought Final required a REALLY medieval name, so I said Beowulf just to say something. Zach wrote “Who Wallace” which was unpleasantly reminiscent of Matt Amodio and Yogesh. Surely they must be allowed to write “who” or “what” during the long break before Final.
Knew the 1958 Pope; the acid-incised plates (I knew this bunch was too young for that one); and the $1600 Mentor clue from the photo. The annual ritual and the Frost line weren’t too tough to guess.
I gave a passing thought to ‘Beowulf’ for FJ, but thought that it would never leave home plate.
It was another exciting game, and Zach became the new Jeopardy champion. Actually, I was surprised as I surely thought that Prasad would have remained as the champion. As for the FJ, I came up with William, but it wasn’t Wallace.