Final Jeopardy: Destinations (9-30-25)

Here are some more clues from the 9/30/2025 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.

NURSERY RHYME DRAMATIS PERSONAE ($200) This modest fellow “met a pieman going to the fair” & hoped to taste some of his ware, but unfortunately had no cash

($1000) The “Three Wise Men of” this, now a nickname for NYC, weren’t all that wise; they perished when they went to sea in a bowl

BUZZED WORDS ($800) This word may have been meant to suggest a person soaking up alcohol, the way a certain type of paper soaks up ink

($1000) Millennials helped popularize this term meaning both excited & drunk; rapper Roscoe Dash called it the 2010 version of “crunk”

POPE CULTURE JEOPARDY! ($2000) It’s been noted that this man, who played Francis in “The Two Popes”, resembles his role; even his son jokingly asked him if he was the pope

“BE” REAL ($800) Henry David Thoreau said, “It costs me less… to incur the penalty of” this 12-letter word “to the state than it would to obey”

($2000) The Uffizi in Florence has a room of sculptures named for this bereaved mother this bereaved mother from Greek myth

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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: DOG BREED ANAGRAMS
($200) Used in law enforcement for centuries:
OLD BUN HOOD
($400) Toy breed bearing the name of a historic province:
OPEN MARINA
($600) Excellent cattle herder & guard:
TOE TWIRLER
($800) Gentle giant noted for courage & dependability:
TEA GARDEN
($1000) It’s a speedy hound:
WITH PEP

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