Final Jeopardy: 20th Century Figures (6-26-25)
The Final Jeopardy question (6/26/2025) in the category “20th Century Figures” was:
Ironic in light of her name, she was remembered in a eulogy as “the most hunted person of the modern age”
New champ Kiley Campbell, a teacher from Salt Lake City, UT, won $24,201. In Game 2, the challengers are: Rocco Graziano, a substitute teacher from Staten Island, NY; and Janis Raye, a marketing & publishing professional from St. Johnsbury, VT.
Round 1 Categories: Presidential Births – Let’s “C” the Critter – Literal Answers to Rhetorical Questions – A Couple of Things – All About Friends – Compound Adjectives
Kiley found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Couple of Things” under the $600 clue on the 20th pick of the round. She was in second place with $1,800, $1,200 less than Rocco’s lead. Kiley made it a true Daily Double and didn’t know. That counts as WRONG.
“First Impressions” was an early title of this 1813 novel but that got taken, so the author went with a couple of attitudes instead show
Rocco finished in the lead with $4,800. Kiley was second with $2,200 and Janis was last with $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Thinking About the Enlightenment – Nation-al Geographic – Musical Theater – Fictional Clergy – Just the Facts – “Ma*m”
Rocco found the first Daily Double in “Musical Theater” under the $2,000 clue on the 6th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $6,000 now, $1,000 more than Kiley in second place. Rocco bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Famous for a notorious green character, she returned to B’way in 2025 with a show about some notorious greenery, “Redwood” show
Just 2 clues later, Rocco got the last Daily Double in “Enlightenment” under the $1,200 clue. He was in the lead with $9,600, $4,600 more than Kiley in second place. Rocco bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
Known as the “German Socrates”, Moses of this last name was a major Jewish voice in the Enlightenment & grandfather of a famous composer show
Rocco finished in the lead with a runaway $17,200. Janis was second with $7,800 and Kiley was last with $5,800. All clues were shown.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS PRINCESS DIANA?
Diana Spencer became Princess of Wales in 1981 when she married the Prince of Wales (now King Charles III). Despite having 2 sons (William & Harry), their royally troubled marriage culminated in divorce in 1996. Diana publicly shared scandalous details on her husband’s and her own extramarital affairs. This is partly why the paparazzi relentlessly chased after her in pursuit of spicy tabloid stories.
Diana’s 1997 death in a Paris automobile crash was blamed on the driver, Henri Paul, for being drunk and driving too fast to escape the paparazzi. Her brother, Charles Spencer’s eulogy contained this observation: “It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this – a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.”
Kiley came up with Sanger. Kiley lost $5,800 and finished with zero.
Janis wrote down “Found”. Ken thought that was a good guess even though “there’s no such person.” Janis lost $3,801 and finished with $3,999.
Rocco had no response and he didn’t bet anything either, so Rocco became the new Jeopardy! champ on the strength of his $17,200 runaway. He’ll return tomorrow and perhaps his chat story will make reference to Rocky Graziano, one-time World Middleweight champ (whose middle name was Rocco).
A triple stumper from each round:
LET’S “C” THE CRITTER ($800) Sharing its name with a gator cousin, this lizard has strong choppers, spitting out the broken shells of the turtles it eats
FICTIONAL CLERGY ($2000) G.K. Chesterton created this unassuming crime-solving priest played on TV by Ron Weasley’s dad
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “THE MOVIES”
Centenarian ceramic artist Beatrice Wood helped inspire one of the main characters & the narrator of this film from the 1990s show
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1/3 on DD (surprisingly, only one was the Jane Austen), and had no clue on FJ. If I had to guess, it was either Billy Wisse or (more likely) Buzzy Cohen that wrote such a cutesy “what am I thinking) clue. Too clever for it’s own good.
That was a strange Final and a bit of a stretch to refer to her as the most hunted.
Decent crew tonight, even though Rocco was the shiniest star. Kiley coulda been a contenda, but too many whiffs, including that pretty easy first DD.
Knew the Chesterton clergyman’s surname, but momentarily forgot his religious title. I’d be deported from Oregon if I didn’t know the C-salmon. The baseball count and the former Dodger were both in my strike zone.
I don’t know what would have made anyone think of a celebrity rather than a criminal. Maybe if the category was paparazzi. Still, even though I can understand her brother’s grief, it’s a little over the top for him to say that when the Unabomber was caught in 1996 after an almost 20-year manhunt!