Final Jeopardy: Websites (6-24-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (6/24/2025) in the category “Websites” was:
A 2006 WSJ article described this website as having “row after row of blue…hyperlinks & nary another color or graphic in sight”
New champ Emily Croke, a stay-at-home mom from Denver, CO, won $13,201 yesterday. In Game 2, her challengers are: Nicholas Moline, an attorney from Mooresville, IN; and Micah Fritz, a teacher from Milwaukee, WI.
Round 1 Categories: Florida History – Chapter & Non-Verse – Look What the Cat Dragged in – Scammers – All Kinds of Sports – Add a Letter
Micah found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Scammers” under the $1,000 clue on the 5th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $800, nobody else was on the board. Micah bet $1,000 and said John Fishing (Phishing?). That was WRONG.
After prison, this man whose last name is synonymous with a type of scam was said to have become a business manager for Mussolini show
Micah finished in the lead with $2,200. Emily was second with $1,800 and Nicholas was last with $1,600. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Colorful Geography – Global Music – Aviation Glossary – Movie Title Professions – Words About Nerds – Living Dolls
Emily found the first Daily Double in “Words About Nerds” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $5,400, $400 more than Micah in second place. Emily bet $5,000 and came up with supergenius. That was WRONG.
A hyperintelligent nemesis of Superman in comic books likely gave us this portmanteau word for someone who’s crazy smart show
Micah got the last Daily Double in “Colorful Geography” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $7,000, $3,400 more than Emily in second place. Micah bet $3,000 and he was RIGHT.
Amid a real estate boom in the 1950s, an Australian tourist destination called the South Coast was rechristened this show
Micah finished in the lead with a runaway $15,200. Emily was second with $6,800 and Nicholas was last with $1,600. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS CRAIGSLIST?
In “Zen and the Art of Classified Advertising” (2006), Brian M. Carney described Craigslist as “stubbornly minimalist and text-heavy, with row after row of blue underlined hyperlinks….” He also noted that the site contained no banner ads, “just the postings of its users, most of which are put online free of charge.” Articles analyzing Craigslist’s success are plentiful, with most citing “free” and “ease of use” as key factors.
A Business Insider article has 11 mind-blowing facts about Craigslist when it was a U.S. Top 20 site in 2019. Fast forward to 2025, Yahoo Finance says Craigslist still holds a dominant position in the classified ads realm, but it is losing ground to competitors.
Nicholas thought it was Google. He couldn’t get higher than third place so he stood pat on his $1,600.
Emily came up with Reddit. She couldn’t get higher than second place so she stood pat on $6,600.
Micah went with Wikipedia. He lost $1,000 but won the game with the remaining $14,200. Micah Fritz is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
CHAPTER & NON-VERSE ($1000) Chapter I of Book I, “Miss Brooke”: “And how should Dorothea not marry? –a girl so handsome and with such prospects?”
LIVING DOLLS ($2000) This 1870 comic ballet by Léo Delibes tells a tale of a man’s infatuation with a lifelike mechanical doll
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “19th CENTURY LITERATURE”
In 1896 new spider species were named for a wolf, a panther & a snake from a work published 2 years earlier by this man show
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As usual, you can’t logically conclude that FJ was “tough” because it was a triple stumper. That doesn’t stand forensic discussion.
In any case, I was 3/3 on DD, and got FJ (and rather quickly). There’s just some things you should know. And, compared to the somewhat arcane Home Depot FJ clue from a few weeks ago, this one did give the information needed.
And, boy howdy, I don’t even know how many TS there were. But, if TS was a person, they won this show running away.
There were 20 triple stumpers in this game, 2 less than last Friday!
While some folks are waiting for the one-day champ streak to end, I’m waiting for some players who will cut the number of stumpers to 10 or less.
I thought this week was the last week of the season, and they were cleaning out the piles. If there is indeed a month or more, some stronger candidates would be MORE than welcome, at least to me, and you!
I’m hesitant to call that a good game because it turned into a runaway, and there were too many stumpers and wrong answers. Emily made a valiant comeback after that disastrous DD wager. Nicholas vanished in double Jeopardy. Micah was the least offensive, although I think he should have known that first DD (the only one I got). I really thought Final was Wikipedia, since I use it daily for one reason or another. But I’m also on Craigslist daily checking my listings.
Some that I found very answerable: Florida’s pandemic action; Brobdingnag novel; red songbird; WNBA coastal teams; Wahlberg boxing film; actor Jack/way of speaking.
I’m guessing that after this week, there are 2-3 weeks left of new shows.
And we got a triple stumper in the final for the second straight Tuesday since today’s final was tough.
Felix the Cat is one of my all-time favorite cartoons. The original, not the reboot. My grandkids learned how to say “Good Morning” by watching the 1936 cartoon Neptune Nonsense with me when they were a year old — 80 years after it was made 🤣