Final Jeopardy Clues: 1-27 to 1-31-25

Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of January 27 through January 31, 2025. Click on the dates to see the recap for each game.

Mon, Jan 27 – Correct answers: 0
WORLD CAPITALS: Home to more than 400,000, it’s the only world capital in the “Roaring Forties” latitudes show

Tue, Jan 28 – Correct answers: 0
PALINDROMIC DATES: This 7-digit date saw the premiere of Handel’s “Water Music” show

Wed, Jan 29 – Correct answers: 3
ENGLISH LITERATURE: Part II of this 17th century work says, “I see myself now at the end of my journey; my toilsome days are ended” show

Thu, Jan 30 – Correct answers: 0
LATIN PHRASES: After Camillagate, a fire at Windsor castle & marriage problems in her family, Queen Elizabeth II dubbed 1992 this show

Fri, Jan 31 – Correct answers: 0
U.S. PLACE NAMES: Before 1867, this city that lends its name to a type of tree was known as Novo Arkhangelsk show

It wasn’t a very good week for most of the Tournament of Champions quarterfinalists. Somehow the clue writers managed to come up with 4 clues that were too tough for the players. Wednesday’s group was the only one to get a Final Jeopardy! clue that didn’t leave any of them hanging. I only got two of these myself (Wednesday & Thursday.) We can only hope the rest of the Tournament doesn’t play out the same way!

This week’s winning scores:
Mon 1/27/24 $10,799 Will Wallace
Tue 1/28/24 $6,401 Amy Hummel
Wed 1/29/25 $28,200 Neilesh Vinjamuri
Thu 1/30/25 $13,899 Ryan Manton
Fri 1/31/25 $11,999 Mark Fitzpatrick

The above scores were not paid in real dollars. They were the top scores each day and qualified the winner to play in the semifinals next week.

The show paid out ten $5,000 consolation prizes to these players who didn’t make the semis.
Mon Alison Betts, Rishabh Wuppalapati
Tue Grant DeYoung, David Erb
Wed Greg Jolin, Weckiai Rannila
Thu Mehal Shah, Will Stewart
Fri Allison Gross, Kevin Laskowski

Here is the KEEP IT ABOVE THE WAIST category from Tuesday’s game.