Final Jeopardy: Fun & Games (11-6-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/6/2025) in the category “Fun & Games” was:
A 2022 article titled this “at 50: the video game ‘that changed the world'” also said “It may be ‘the most boring…game of all time'”
New champ Allegra Kuney, a Ph.D. candidate from New Brunswick, NJ, won $26,600 yesterday. In Game 2, her opponents are: Molly Murray, a communications director orig. from Middletown, CT; and Alan Pyke, a professor from New York, NY.
Round 1 Categories: What a Pleasure – TV Characters – Suiting You to a Middle T – Travels by Twain – Following the Equator – Roughing It
Allegra found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Following the Equator” under the $600 clue on the 20th pick of the round. She was in second place with $4,000 now, $200 less than Molly’s lead. Allegra bet $2,000 and took a shot at it with Popocatepetl. That was WRONG.
Uhuru is the summit of this peak that’s about 200 miles south of the Equator show
Molly finished in the lead with $5,400. Alan was second with $3,800 and Allegra was last with $3,400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Great Brits – 1940s Literature – You’re Ruining the Ruins – Go for “Gold” – Stories Behind the Songs – A Little Alliteration
Molly found the first Daily Double in “Great Brits” under the $1,200 clue on the 10th pick. She was in the lead with $11,000 now, $1,200 more than Allegra in second place. Molly bet $1,200 and she was RIGHT.
Watching the ceremony from London via TV, this 88-year-old was made an honorary U.S. citizen in 1963 show
4 clues later, Molly got the last Daily Double in “1940s Literature” under the $1,600 clue. In the lead with $14,200, she had $4,400 more than Allegra in second place. Molly bet $5,000 this time, and she was RIGHT again.
The title of this Mexico-set Malcolm Lowry novel refers to both Popocatepetl & Iztaccihuatl show
Allegra finished in the lead with $21,400. Molly was next with $19,200 and Alan was in third place with $4,400. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS PONG?
theweek.com’s article “Pong at 50” is basically a retelling of the creation of Atari’s 1972 electronic table tennis game from various sources. The phrase ‘that changed the world’ comes from The Guardian’s 50th anniversary article. The ‘most boring’ description comes IEEE Spectrum magazine’s article “Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It”.
All the articles quoted describe Pong’s creation, its instant popularity, and how it ushered in the lucrative video game industry. Also included are the various ways it is used today, such as teaching children to code and training AI algorithms.
Alan had Pong but he crossed it out and didn’t give a complete response after that. He lost $3,581 and finished with $819.
Molly got it right. She bet $8,000 and finished with $27,200.
Allegra got it right, too. She bet $17,001 and won the game with $17,001 and won the game with $38,401. Allegra’s 2-day total is $65,001. Wundebar!
A triple stumper from each round:
ROUGHING IT ($800) A non-profit-organization dedicated to this 3-word practice includes as one of its core principles “dispose of waste properly”
1940s LITERATURE ($2000) A tale of love & independence in Paris, “Gigi” by this French novelist eventually came to the big screen with Leslie Caron
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “AMERICAN AUTHORS”
In 1950 the Swedish Academy said this Nobel Prize winner “is a regional writer” but called “his regionalism universal” show
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Winston Churchill’s mother was American. Jennie Jerome Churchill lived on Henry St in Brooklyn, in Brooklyn Heights.
I got FJ because a buddy is the world’s recognized expert in video gaming prior to the PC.
Have to applaud Allegra for fighting back up, as others have said.
Alan all but disappeared in DJ. Molly was on her way to a runaway after the $5K DD wager, but Allegra fought back like the champ she is.
I’m definitely old enough to have remembered who became a US citizen in 1963 (he died in ’65, and I got to see his grave in 1971), and to have owned that ancient video game, which I got at a toy store on a clearance sale in the mid-70s. And “Gigi” author. Surprised no one knew whom Eddie Redmayne portrayed on film or the alliterative quality of quartz.
Molly had me thinking Allegra was going home for a while, but wow! Allegra was like, not today Folks! 🤣
This Final would have been 3 for 3 had Alan left his response alone. Allegra finally became our first female repeat champion since Laura Faddah and I think we’ll be seeing Molly again for Second Chance 2026 because of her strong performance and the score she finished with after FJ!