Travel USA (10-22-25) – Fikkle Fame

The Final Jeopardy query (10/22/2025) within the class “Travel USA” was:

The web site for this resort contains mini-biographies of Harold Ross, Edna Ferber & Alexander Woollcott

New champ Tom Devlin, an lawyer from Washington, D.C., gained $22,599 yesterday in a really suspenseful recreation. In Game 2, he takes on: Katy Lentz, a college model supervisor from Mauldin, SC; and Emmanuel Calivo, an airport customer support agent from San Jose, CA.

Round 1 Categories: Happy eightieth, United Nations! – Musical Theater – On a First Name Basis – War Books – 3 of the Same Letter – Some Clowns Mean Well

Emmanuel discovered the Jeopardy! spherical Daily Double in “Happy 80th, United Nations!” beneath the $600 clue on the sixth choose of the spherical. He was in final place with $200, $1,600 lower than Tom’s lead. Emmanuel wager $1,000 and he was RIGHT.

Since 1948 greater than 4,000 of those U.N. personnel have given their lives within the line of responsibility present

WHO ARE THE BLUE HELMETS (or PEACEKEEPERS)?

Tom completed within the lead with $9,000. Emmanuel was second with $3,000 and Katy was final with $2,200. All clues had been proven.

Round 2 Categories: The 18th Century – “OI”! – Good as Gold – Who Speaketh within the King James Bible? – Television – Friends in Dry Places

Emmanuel discovered the primary Daily Double in “Who Speaketh in The King James Bible” beneath the $1,600 clue on the thirteenth choose of the spherical. He was in final place with $4,600 now, $11,200 lower than Tom’s lead. Emmanuel wager $2,600 and mentioned Thomas. That was WRONG.

“I do not know the man” present

WHO IS PETER?

Emmanuel received the final Daily Double in “Friends in Dry Places” beneath the $1,600 clue on the twentieth choose of the spherical. He was in final place with $4,000 now, $12,200 lower than Tom’s lead. Emmanuel wager $3,000 and he was RIGHT.

I’m the man to point out you the Arid Intermountain West area bordered by the Rockies on the east & these 2 ranges on the west present

WHAT ARE THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS AND THE SIERRA NEVADA?

Tom completed within the lead with a runaway $20,600. Emmanuel was in second place with $9,400 and Katy was final with $5,800. All clues had been proven.

Only ONE of the contestants received Final Jeopardy! proper.

WHAT IS THE ALGONQUIN?

Harold Ross, Alexander Woolcott and Edna Ferber had been 3 members of the literati who met usually on the Algonquin throughout the Nineteen Twenties. Celebrated for his or her rapier wit, the group was dubbed “the Vicious Circle”. Their most well-known member was Dorothy Parker, well-known for satire and sarcasm. The Algonquin Hotel features a page with photos and “mini-biographies” devoted to the reminiscence of 10 members of the Algonquin Round Table.

The final time they’d a Final Jeopardy! clue about this group was on 12/3/2019, and it was a triple stumper.

Katy thought it may be the Chelsea. That didn’t lose something, as she stood pat on her $5,800.

Emmanuel went to the Plaza. That value him $6,400 and left him with $3,000.

Tom received it proper. He gained the sport with $20,600 since he didn’t wager a sou. Tom Devlin’s 2-day whole is $43,199.

2 triple stumpers from GOOD AS GOLD:

($400) Aes signatum, ingots of this, had been used as foreign money in Rome within the mid-first millennium B.C., a bit too late for the same-named age

($1600) Marco Polo wrote that this man made items of paper “pass current universally over all his kingdoms and provinces”

More clues on Page 2

2 years in the past: NONE of the gamers received this FJ in “HISTORIC LETTERS”

A letter from him begins, “On the thirty-third day after I had left Cadiz, I reached the Indian Ocean” present

WHO IS CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS?

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