Final Jeopardy: Famous Names (9-8-25)
Here are some more clues from the 9/8/2025 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.
BUSINESS HISTORY ($200) In 1986 a Georgia Kroger store pioneered this service for shoppers who are in a hurry &/or don’t feel like chatting
BICYCLES ON THE BIG SCREEN ($600) A bit of movie magic allowed this green guy to take a bike ride in 1979 & 1981 films
SIMPLE ($600) Blake Lively turned up in 2025 to once again torment Anna Kendrick in the sequel to this dark comedy
THAT ADDS UP ($2000) Shoeless Joe & 7 teammates, in the title of a 1963 book & a 1988 movie
STREAMING TV ($1600) After 3 episodes on “Star Trek: Discovery”, Rebecca Romijn brought first officer Una Chin-Riley to this prequel series
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER ($400) Also called nicotinic acid, it gets better publicity as a vitamin under this name
($2000) From the French for “explore”, the military does it to get information
A PLATONIC CATEGORY ($400) Luke Macfarlane: “Adjectives that Plato gave us include, of course, platonic & also this one that can mean theoretical or just useless & comes from the school Plato founded”
($1600) Rose Byrne: “600 years after Plato, a philosopher named Plotinus founded Neoplatonism, which placed intellect prior to physical reality, or if you like some snappy alliteration, this 3-word phrase
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SNEAK PEEK CATEGORY: EDIBLE IDIOMS
($200) It’s something of little importance or value, like, say, legumes in a heap
($400) In a 1785 poem William Cowper referred to this as “the very spice of life”; spoken like a man who’s never tried sriracha
($600) At the dinner table, it can be a tempting item, perhaps twice baked– or a subject best avoided
($800) TV’s “MythBusters” once tested whether “taking” this is “as easy” as the idiom suggests–conclusion: nope
($1000) This 3-word term once referred to a vessel for boiling the catch at river picnics; today, “fine” or not, it means a hot mess
SNEAK PEEK ANSWERS show
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Hello to all out there for another season of frivolity and frustration.
I rarely get to say this, but I thought all 3 DDs were creampuffs, as was FJ. Seeing the Frank hideaway in 1971 has stuck with me all these years.
Jon’s all-in DD wager was ballsy, to put it mildly. Caroline killed any chance of staying in range with some bad answers. “Chicago 7” for the blacklisted screenwriters made me wanna puke. Somewhere tonight Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin et al are having a good laugh over that one.
I was stunned early when no one knew the Kroger shoppers’ service. It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread and the remote control. The Shoeless Joe clue was tough, but I knew the title. Pretty sure I saw the film long ago. Knew the military word for “explore” but that was a tricky one. The $800 clue in Edible Idioms was another softball they all passed on.
Jonathan seemed very nervous and/or stressed, to me, at least. I saw him obviously struggling with the buzzer at times. He wasn’t as abrupt as Matt Jackson, but had a similar sort-of frantic manner.
I was 3/3 on DD, but missed FJ. For some reason, I said Marilyn Monroe.
Agreed, he was darn annoying at times. It may or may not have been 6 weeks between tapings, but there’s definitely a buildup of nerves when you know you will be on first when they resume. In 1974 I easily won the last 2 games of the day on “Split Second.” Then had to wait another 6 or 7 days till the next game. I was pretty nervous that whole time. They took the two best candidates from the new contestant pool and put them against me. It was a great battle, but I lost. I was hoping to be on for the max 5 days, break the scoring record, and automatically win a new car. Instead I got $1075 and a box of Z-bricks. (Which is more than “Jeopardy!” gave me 13 years later!)
Buddy, you always make me laugh! Kudos!!
Jonathan was eventually on a roll, and ultimately left the challengers far behind. Congratulations Jonathan! Say, it sure is nice now that we’re into the new season! I mean, it was a long time coming. Anyways, the FJ seemed rather cryptic to me, but I went with Eleanor Roosevelt for lack of a better choice.
I’m still without Internet so I’ll post more comments whenever I can.
Caroline started very strong and then Jonathan got rolling and neither she or Josh were able to catch him.
Jonathan sure made the right move when he landed on that DD in African History under the $800 clue. He correctly assumed it would be a softball and was it ever!
Josh’s score was 5,600 going into FJ! What a way to begin Season 42 for Jonathan. He ended last season taking down a superchampion and he began the season with the first runaway game in his first title defense. I tbelieve that 40,000 is the third highest score of the season premiere.