Final Jeopardy: U.S. Presidents (1-1-25)
Here are some more clues from the 1/1/2025 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.
4-LETTER WORDS WITH AN “X” ($1000) Casually mentioning to the deli meat guy at Costco that you made it on “Jeopardy!”might be this, slang for bragging
SHAKESPEARE ($1600) Lady Macbeth thinks her husband is not ruthless enough, “too full of” this item not actually in the dairy case
JANE STONE, WWII LINGUIST ($1600) Jane explains, this word solo is a Japanese toast but after “tenno heika”, a war cry meaning “may the emperor live 10,000 years”
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($400) Early 20th century King Njoya of the
Bamum defied colonial cartographers with his own map of his land; this at the top denotes west
($800) Cattle are a big deal to the Nuer of the Nile region; a man is often called by the name of his prize this, a castrated bull
($1200) The Hutu people are the majority group in this country & Burundi
($1600) Lesotho minus L-E gets you the Sotho people; the Western Sotho are called these, another country minus B-O
($2000) Ethiopia’s 2 largest ethnic groups are the triple-O Oromo & the triple-A group whose name recalls a local language
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Hmmmm………..As for FJ, I also went with Dwight D. Eisenhower since he was not only a West Point graduate, but was a well known chain cigarette smoker as well. Yes, it certainly would have helped in this case if one knew that Frederick was one of the sons of Ulysses S. Grant.
I was 3/3 on DD, but went with Eisenhower for FJ!
Yeah, only Grant and Ike at USMA, while the newly deceased Carter as the only POTUS from USNA!
Now, really? “Unterwasserbomben”? Even if you don’t speak German, you could make a VERY educated guess at “under water bomb”. With the added “anti-sub” and 2 words, my goodness, but, could it be any easier for a sharp Jeopardy! contestant?
I’ll take Will as my horse.
I answered (incorrectly) a multiple-choice trivia question the other day re how many US presidents served in the Navy. I answered four (JFK, first Bush, Carter, Ford) but omitted LBJ and Nixon.
Terrific, competitive game, and a strong comeback from way down by Colleen, who’s from a city not far from mine. FJ came to me right away, although it could have been any of however many presidents attended the USMA. They left me in the dust on too many of the game clues.
Thought someone for sure would know the Wm Ed Burghardt clue. Same with the Japanese war cry (how many are there?).
2nd chance players may or may not be of ToC caliber, but I must say they play the game with confidence and authority.
Grant and Eisenhower were the only 2 Presidents who went to West Point. Both were smokers, but only Grant had a son named Frederick. His other 2 sons were Ulysses, Jr. and Jesse.
Josh’s “Gonbai” got me. That is actually Chinese, literally meaning “bottoms up”! And, they really mean it! If you have an old fashioned, or a liter of beer, chug it down, ready or not! I didn’t know if it went over to Japan, but, I’ll defer to the craft distiller!
Happy New Year, everyone! The finals should be interesting.
$25,601 Will
$24,401 Colleen
$8,401 Kaitlin
Even if Kaitlin got her FJ right, her score would have been lower than the others. But if I’m remembering right, she was quick on the buzzer, so I’m sort of leaning towards her.
We don’t see the image yet. Anyway Happy New Year to you.