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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Languages in History) for Tuesday, July 22, 2025 (Season 41, Game 227):
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V is said to have quipped, “to God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, & to my horse” this
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Paul Ryan, a print & print marketing general manager from Weymouth, Massachusetts
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Adriene Holland, a risk control manager from Powder Springs, Georgia
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Scott Riccardi, an engineer from Somerville, New Jersey (13-day total: $362,901)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Yesterday saw Scott Riccardi pick up his second win of over $50,000 and his third Coryat score of over $30,000 en route to a dominant 13th victory. Today, on what would have been Alex Trebek’s 85th birthday, he goes for win #14 over Adriene Holland and Paul Ryan as we get closer and closer to the end of Season 41.
I’ve seen a few people asking what would happen with Scott’s winnings if he was to win until Friday; as far as I am aware, in order to make it easiest to close the books on Season 41, Scott would receive a check for his Season 41 winnings, and then a second check with Season 42 winnings if he were to make it that far.
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Correct response: What is German?
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As Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V needed to speak many languages, but he still showed some biases. He had mastery of French and Spanish, using Spanish as his religious language (and not Italian or Latin) so as not to be seen as surrendering to the Pope. Obviously, saying that he would speak to animals in German would be seen as offensive to the Germans. Interestingly though, many Spaniards have reported online over the years that animals, especially “professional” ones, have been trained in German commands, presumably because it’s more terse than Spanish.
The witticism in today’s clue has certainly been attributed to Charles V by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels—and it has also potentially been attributed to Frederick the Great.
I will say that I think today’s Final Jeopardy does have a bit of a “you either know it or you don’t” quality to it, though. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Exodusters; Throwing Copper; Revising The Atlas; Beastly Endings; Put The Fries In The Bag; Bro)
Scott gave 9 correct responses, including the Daily Double, to jump into an early lead. At the interviews, the scores were Scott $7,800 Adriene $3,200 Paul $1,000.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Scott 9 correct 0 incorrect
Adriene 4 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 2 correct 0 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Paul is recently engaged; when he met his fiancée, they both had dogs with the same name.
Adriene had a bit of a hiking incident where she fell off a mountain and broke her arm.
Scott was the victim of “an oil change with a gaslighting included”.
Scott picked up another 7 correct after the break to extend his lead.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Scott 16 correct 0 incorrect
Adriene 6 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 7 correct 0 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Scott $11,600
Adriene $3,800
Paul $3,000
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: The Pulitzer Prize For Fiction; Statues Around The World; To Put It In Anthropological Terms; Millennials; On The Movie Soundtrack; Ends With 3 Consonants)
Adrienne found DD2 8 clues in; she bet just over half her score, though. Scott found DD3 very late; he bet enough to just about cement a runaway with a correct response, but correct responses on 6 of the last 8 clues did cement that runaway.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Scott 30 correct 0 incorrect
Adriene 11 correct 0 incorrect
Paul 13 correct 1 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 40 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Scott $30,000
Adriene $12,400
Paul $9,800
Paul was the only player correct in Final Jeopardy, but Scott’s runaway makes him a 14-day champion! He’ll go for win #15 tomorrow.
Tonight’s results:
Paul $9,800 + $3,200 = $13,000 (What is German?)
Adriene $12,400 – $7,800 = $4,600 (What is English? Hi Erik + Grace!)
Scott $30,000 – $1,999 = $28,001 (What is English?) (14-day total: $390,902)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) EXODUSTERS $600 (clue #6)
Scott 2000 +2000 (Adriene 800 Paul 600)
2) MILLENNIALS $1200 (clue #8)
Adriene 5800 +3000 (Scott 16000 Paul 7400)
3) TO PUT IT IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL TERMS $800 (clue #22, $4000 left on board)
Scott 23200 +4000 (Adriene 12000 Paul 9000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 169
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Scott 3 4 5 3*
Adriene 3
Paul 2
DJ! Round:
Scott 3 4 3 2 3 3 4 2 2*
Adriene 3* 4† 5 5†
Paul 3 5 4 5 4 5 2 4 5
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Scott 3.15
Paul 3.90
Adriene 4.00
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 40 (0.18 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Scott $25,400 Coryat, 30 correct, 0 incorrect, 49.12% in first on buzzer (28/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Paul $9,800 Coryat, 13 correct, 1 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
Adriene $10,600 Coryat, 11 correct, 0 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
Combined Coryat Score: $45,800
Lach Trash: $7,400 (on 6 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $800
Lead Changes: 2
Times Tied: 0
Player Statistics:
Scott Riccardi, career statistics:
377 correct, 27 incorrect
19/19 on rebound attempts (on 56 rebound opportunities)
43.36% in first on buzzer (346/798)
19/25 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $49,000)
10/14 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $22,857
Adriene Holland, career statistics:
11 correct, 1 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 1 rebound opportunity)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,600
Paul Ryan, career statistics:
14 correct, 1 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 0 rebound opportunities)
24.56% in first on buzzer (14/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,800
Scott Riccardi, to win:
15 games: 74.292%
16: 55.193%
17: 41.004%
18: 30.463%
19: 22.631%
Avg. streak: 16.890 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Scott moves to 12th place in all-time regular play winnings and 30th place in terms of number of correct responses given on the show.
- I realize it might be out of their comfort zone, but challengers, when playing against super-champions, have to be prepared to play perfectly in order to beat them. That means they need to go all in on Daily Doubles and avoid clue selections where the Daily Double won’t be.
- Today’s runaway game means that no wagering suggestions will be posted.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
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Had to narrow this one down in my head. The only answers that made sense were Latin, English, and German. Thankfully, it occurred to me the first two being spoken in mainland Europe around HREC5’s time would be a bit of a stretch.
It seems like, between yesterday’s and today’s, there’s a level of writer fatigue in the clues — understandable in Week 46, but it makes me wonder if they need more than the 10 or so on staff now or if they should stratify (have a regular-season team and a post-season pyramid team). Otherwise, you just wind up grabbing whatever you got and it isn’t always consistent in difficulty.
Our local law enforcement had their K9s trained in German.
I remember one of the German Shepards was named Fritz.
I was stuck between Greek and Latin. Guess it didn’t matter which I chose.
Thanks for your reply to my comment yesterday with regard to certain mythological places. You really made me smile. 🙂 🙂
My somewhat warped sense of humor immediately went to an old joke I once heard.
How does one say butterfly? In Spanish ; mariposa In Italian; farfala In French; papillon
in German ; schmetterling.
Easy get today
I don’t get it. As a wearer of bow ties and having had an elderly friend (since passed away) whose native language was Portuguese, I did know that borboleta is the word for both butterfly and bow tie.
Italian is much the same. The pasta farfala are shaped like bowties
In the other languages, the word for butterfly “sounds” sweet and beautiful, but in German it’s harsh.
The joke is better delivered orally. The Spanish, Italian, and French words sound as beautiful as the average butterfly… and then there’s German where it sounds rather forceful. I think the joke’s funnier with “I love you”. Imagine whispering these into your loved one’s ear:
I love you
Te amo
Je vous aime
Ich liebe dich
One… kind of stands out.
I don’t know think I’ve ever enjoyed or rooted for a superchamp as much as I am for Scott. (Matt Amodio and Cris Pannulo would be close runner-ups.) Calm, modest, handsome and smart.
I’ve tuned out Jeopady! for the last few years – too many tournaments and other show-related distractions – but I am back in the fold, as it were. As our moderator pointed out yesterday(?), these runs bring in viewers.
Well, I was excited about being in the contestant pool and possibly making Jeopardy next season…
…like, how am I supposed to compete with THIS? (And don’t say he’ll be gone by the time I’m called; the chances of someone having a big day are always high.)
But full credit to the challengers. Not every day you see just one wrong answer over 60 clues. Insane.
I hope that you make it on! 🙂 And if you happen to be at the taping on August 8th at 10 a.m., I’ll be there!
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), after mentioning that quip (with “enemy” instead of “horse”), has conjectured that if Charles V had known Russian, he would have spoken to all of them in Russian.
Figured German, after all how often do you hear of law enforcement agencies teaching the dogs Spanish or French? It seems to usually be German.
I always understood that was because the most elite dog trainers are German and though German Shepherds and Belgian Malinois are now bred all over the world, perhaps the best still come from the German area. I still think that may have been the original reason, but going by what was said about German being more terse plus thinking it would likely be advantageous for “regular people” to not know the commands for the trained dogs, those are probably the current reasons.
I’ve always heard that when it comes to animals, the best language to use is German so that was one path to the correct response. Another path was to ask myself what languages were prominent in the time of Charles V. With Spanish, Italian and French having been eliminated, I was left with Latin and German. Since German intersected with my first path, I went with German.
With a decent win (somewhere in the 20 thousands or more) tomorrow, Scott can move into the top 10, passing both Austin Rogers and Matt Jackson in one fell swoop. Retro good luck, young man.
No “you either know it or you don’t” in my case. I know quite a bit about horses due to loving them. My first thought was Arabic because Arabians have been such wonderful desirable horses for so long, but then I thought they look too small and delicate (though they aren’t actually all THAT delicate) for Holy Roman Emperors, so thought of German horses as being bigger and sturdier, so went with “What is German?”
I went with English, just like 2 of the 3, including our Super-Champion!
Retro congrats to Scott on win #14!!! (5th straight runaway) Great game by all 3 players. We’ve had some pretty great players not win this season.
Looking forward to tomorrow night to see if Scott can match Adrianna. 🙂
Thumbs down to the closed captioner for “Happy birthday, Alice” at the end of the show.
Yeah, that’s not good!