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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Cars & The Movies) for Wednesday, May 28, 2025 (Season 41, Game 188):
A fake speedometer was used in this make of car from a 1980s movie since the actual car’s speedometer didn’t go high enough
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Thomas Sweeney, a survey technician from Morrow, Ohio
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Alice Welch, an epidemiologist from Queens, New York
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Tyler Griffith, a criminal forensic scientist originally from Sturgis, Michigan (1-day total: $799)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Tyler Griffith is your new champion on Jeopardy!—although his win total yesterday was small, just $799. That wasn’t entirely his fault, though—both of his opponents wagered too much in Final Jeopardy yesterday. He definitely wants to win again, but Alice Welch and Thomas Sweeney want to stop him.
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Correct response: What is a DeLorean?
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The DMC DeLorean, from John DeLorean’s DeLorean Motor Company, was modified in the 1985 film Back to the Future in order to permit the major plot point of time travel, as the stock speedometer on the DeLorean wasn’t intended to reach the required speeds.
This should be a relatively straightforward clue for anyone who has a passing knowledge of 1980s popular culture.
I am putting this next sentence in boldface for those who were complaining—especially on Reddit—about the difficulty of this clue: Final Jeopardy is allowed to be easy, because the possibility that a clue might be easy is important in order to keep players betting to win in Final Jeopardy. If Final Jeopardy was never easy, players would start playing more conservatively, and the show would be more boring as a result.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Wednesday, May 28, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Firsts; Europe; Going To The Dogs; Business “&” Business; Entertaining Wolverines; Hat Chat)
Tyler found the Daily Double immediately, but it was Alice who led after 15 cluesafter going 3/5 in HAT CHAT. At the commercial break, the scores were Alice $2,800 Thomas $2,400 Tyler $2,000.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Alice 4 correct 0 incorrect
Thomas 4 correct 0 incorrect
Tyler 4 correct 1 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Thomas does utility locating and once had to travel into the abandoned Cincinnati subway.
Alice became a pharmacist because of John Stamos.
Tyler has lived in 8 different states, including Alaska.
Alice picked up eight correct responses after the break to have a good-sized lead after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Alice 12 correct 1 incorrect
Thomas 7 correct 1 incorrect
Tyler 7 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Alice $5,400
Thomas $3,200
Tyler $2,600
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: 19th Century Americans; Double Vowels & Double Consonants; Crime Fiction; Festivals; A Time To Every Purpose; Nothing Good On TV)
Both Thomas and Alice lost $2,000 on Daily Doubles; Alice’s miss gave Thomas an opening—he took the lead with two clues left in the round and led by $600 going into Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Thomas 16 correct 5 incorrect
Alice 17 correct 3 incorrect
Tyler 10 correct 3 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 30 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Thomas $8,800
Alice $8,200
Tyler $5,400
This Final Jeopardy was a triple get—which makes Thomas our new champion; he’ll be back tomorrow to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Tyler $5,400 + $3,401 = $8,801 (What is a DeLorean?)
Alice $8,200 + $3,401 = $11,601 (What is a delorean?)
Thomas $8,800 + $7,601 = $16,401 (What is a delorion delorian) (1-day total: $16,401)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) EUROPE $800 (clue #1)
Tyler 0 +1000 (Alice 0 Thomas 0)
2) A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE $1200 (clue #10)
Thomas 4400 -2000 (Tyler 4200 Alice 6600)
3) DOUBLE VOWELS & DOUBLE CONSONANTS $2000 (clue #20, $9200 left on board)
Alice 10200 -2000 (Tyler 5400 Thomas 4400)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 35
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Tyler 4*
Alice
Thomas
DJ! Round:
Tyler 3 5 4 3 3 4 3
Alice 4 4 2 1 5 5*
Thomas 5 4 2 3* 3 2 2
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Thomas 3.00
Alice 3.50
Tyler 3.63
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 30 (0.16 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Thomas $10,800 Coryat, 16 correct, 5 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Alice $10,200 Coryat, 17 correct, 3 incorrect, 29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
Tyler $5,200 Coryat, 10 correct, 3 incorrect, 21.05% in first on buzzer (12/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $26,200
Lach Trash: $16,000 (on 15 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,800
Lead Changes: 5
Times Tied: 3
Player Statistics:
Tyler Griffith, career statistics:
28 correct, 10 incorrect
1/2 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
27.19% in first on buzzer (31/114)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,400)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $6,200
Alice Welch, career statistics:
18 correct, 3 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
29.82% in first on buzzer (17/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,200
Thomas Sweeney, career statistics:
17 correct, 5 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,800
Thomas Sweeney, to win:
2 games: 30.705%
3: 9.428%
4: 2.895%
5: 0.889%
6: 0.273%
Avg. streak: 1.443 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Viewers are reminded that contestants are welcome to request seating for any reason and do not need to disclose why.
- Viewers are also reminded that spelling mistakes in Final Jeopardy only get ruled incorrect if it changes the pronunciation.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Thomas $8,800 Alice $8,200 Tyler $5,400)
Tyler: Bet at least $200 in case Alice makes the minimum cover bet; limit your bet to $4,200 to stay ahead of Thomas. (Actual bet: $3,401)
Alice: Cover bet over Tyler is $2,601. (Actual bet: $3,401)
Thomas: Standard cover bet today is $7,601. (Actual bet: $7,601)
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According to my calculations, when this Final Jeopardy reaches 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see a triple get.
👍 [I almost didn’t respond correctly because it didn’t seem believable that a sporty-looking car like a Delorean wouldn’t have a speedometer that went to at least 90 MPH.] [BTW, my alternate thoughts were “007’s Aston Martin” and Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang but I immediately went back to the Delorean, especially upon re-reading the clue’s “this make of car” rather than “this car”.]
Horribly I guessed a Volkswagon, as in Herbie. 🙁
At first I thought of “Speed” but that was a bus, from the 1990’s. Then I thought of the speeding car in “BULLITT”, but that was in the 60’s. Eventually I thought of the correct response, as in the DeLorean!!!
I was thinking of a remake from Herbie the Love Bug. My 1969 Beetle speedo did not go up very high. Surprised a DeLorean’s speedo doesn’t go up to 88mph.
Yes, me too!
I thought of Christime’s Plymouth Fury but I knew that was a stretch. You seldom see anything Stephen King-related in Final Jeopardy (or in the regular game for that matter)
I also went with “Christine “. I completely forgot about “Back to the Future”.
With regard to your comment about spelling and pronunciation would Delorion have been ruled incorrect?
I think it would have been ruled correct.
I think you are almost certainly right, but I suspect that even though Thomas didn’t know how to spell it, he knew how to pronounce it and feared that “Delorion” would be judged as “De-lory-on”, so changed to “Delorian”.
Tyler’s two day total ends up being less than if he’d lost and come in second yesterday. But the title of having been a Jeopardy champion is worth more than that extra couple hundred dollars, I’m sure.
Many years ago I read all the BttF trivia on IMDB, so it was an easy get for me. I wonder if there was a Jeopardy” clue regarding the fact that the time machine was originally supposed to be a refrigerator, but Spielberg vetoed the idea, concerned child viewers might attempt to climb into one.
When I saw the category was “Cars & The Movies,” my first thought was “DeLorean.” That’s one of my few blind guesses that actually worked out.
I can understand Tyler’s wager of $3401 to pass Thomas’ $8800. I don’t see the logic behind Alice’s wager of the same amount. What am I missing here?