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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Book Covers) for Monday, June 16, 2025 (Season 41, Game 201):
In 1974 Allison Maher Stern posed horizontally on stools & pretended to swim for a cover of this book
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Sarah Cox, a chief of staff from Austin, Texas
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Tom Thriveni, a writer from Los Angeles, California
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Katie Kornacki, a professor of English from Hartford, Connecticut (1-day total: $20,000)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
It’s time for a new week of play on Jeopardy!, as Katie Kornacki starts the week as your defending champion. She faces off against challengers Tom Thriveni and Sarah Cox, who isn’t returning to the show after 34.5 years—that’s Sara Cox, the Maine teacher who, in October 1990, became the second of four players to tie two separate regular play games.
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Correct response: What is Jaws?
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Allison Maher Stern was the model who posed as the swimmer on the book cover (and later movie poster) of Peter Benchley’s Jaws, the 1974 book that turned into the smash hit summer blockbuster film of 1975.
As someone who very easily associates events to years, I found this to be a very straightforward Final Jeopardy clue. Others may differ.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Monday, June 16, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: The Space Between Us; Novel Plot Points; 3-Letter Body Parts?; Rare; Medium; Well Done!)
Tom struggled with incorrect responses early, including on the Daily Double. Sarah had five correct to lead after 15 clues; at the break, the scores were Sarah $2,400 Katie $1,400 Tom -$1,800.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Sarah 5 correct 1 incorrect
Katie 2 correct 0 incorrect
Tom 2 correct 3 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Sarah once worked at a tech startup when President Obama visited.
Tom is in a band called Crub, named by Mark McGrath.
Katie would love to own a vintage shop.
Sarah picked up another five correct to continue to lead after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Sarah 10 correct 1 incorrect
Katie 8 correct 0 incorrect
Tom 5 correct 3 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Sarah $5,200
Katie $3,600
Tom -$800
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Historic Objects; Alliteration; We’Re Bussin’; World Geography; Parenthetical Song Titles; Viking Lore)
Katie got DD2 incorrect, while Sarah got DD3 correct; Sarah proceeded to cruise to a runaway over the second half of Double Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Sarah 20 correct 4 incorrect
Katie 11 correct 1 incorrect
Tom 10 correct 5 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 40 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Sarah $15,000
Katie $5,600
Tom $4,000
Sarah was the only player correct in Final; she’s your new champion and will return tomorrow to defend her title.
Tonight’s results:
Tom $4,000 – $800 = $3,200 (What is Wide Sargaso Sea?)
Katie $5,600 – $3,000 = $2,600 (What is)
Sarah $15,000 + $50 = $15,050 (What is Jaws?) (1-day total: $15,050)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) THE SPACE BETWEEN US $1000 (clue #12)
Tom -1000 -1000 (Katie 1000 Sarah 1600)
2) HISTORIC OBJECTS $1600 (clue #13)
Katie 4800 -2000 (Tom 1600 Sarah 8400)
3) WORLD GEOGRAPHY $1200 (clue #16, $14400 left on board)
Sarah 9600 +3000 (Katie 2800 Tom 1600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -110
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Katie 4 3
Tom 5 4 5*
Sarah 5 5 3 3 3 4 4
DJ! Round:
Katie 4* 3†
Tom 3 2 1 3 5 2
Sarah 4 5 4 3 4 3 5† 3*
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Sarah 3.87
Tom 3.33
Katie 3.50
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 40 (0.20 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Sarah $13,200 Coryat, 20 correct, 4 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Tom $5,000 Coryat, 10 correct, 5 incorrect, 22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Katie $7,600 Coryat, 11 correct, 1 incorrect, 15.79% in first on buzzer (9/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 6 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $25,800
Lach Trash: $19,200 (on 17 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $9,000
Lead Changes: 2
Times Tied: 1
Player Statistics:
Katie Kornacki, career statistics:
27 correct, 3 incorrect
4/4 on rebound attempts (on 13 rebound opportunities)
20.18% in first on buzzer (23/114)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$2,000)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $9,100
Tom Thriveni, career statistics:
10 correct, 6 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
22.81% in first on buzzer (13/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,000
Sarah Cox, career statistics:
21 correct, 4 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
38.60% in first on buzzer (22/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $3,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,200
Sarah Cox, to win:
2 games: 52.075%
3: 27.118%
4: 14.122%
5: 7.354%
6: 3.830%
Avg. streak: 2.087 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Due to today’s game being a runaway, no wagering suggestions are posted.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
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Easy one for me. On a speaking tour many years ago that I went to, Stephen King mentioned how when his book Carrie came out in 1974, the cover was just an after thought because all the top folks were working on the cover for ‘Jaws’.
1974 gave it to me.
The name Allison Stern threw me for a moment because I remembered Alison being the name of Howard Stern’s first wife, but then I glanced at the year again and the answer came to me immediately. Last night at a store I noticed a commemorative magazine for the anniversary of the movie, not to mention a collection of Mad movie parodies featuring their version of the iconic image, so it was already brewing in my subconscious.
The year gave it to me and the clue…JAWS…The movie that I saw on opening day, which was very hard to do back then…
Allison is married to Leonard Stern, a photographer. She’s a leader of the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Person ‘swimming’ horizontally, book cover-1974. Guess I’m dating myself, but it took about two seconds to guess Jaws. I remember reading the book in junior high about the time the movie came out .
Same, except that I was well past junior high, college, and graduate school when the movie came out. In fact, I was well into my career by then. So, don’t worry about dating yourself as you are young to me.
I knew FJ immediately. I remember noting the swimmer on the poster when I was looking at it outside of the movie theater.
I might have figured it out from the date (as a big year in my life) but I took the clue too literally, assuming it must have been a pun or sight gag or something (related to a book about some sort of psychological situation) with the stools actually being part of the photo. Knowing I did not know ANYTHING like that I quit trying.
Knew this one immediately! Saw this in a double feature with King Kong. And this was also recently on my mind, as NBC is showing it on TV this coming Friday as an homage to its 50th anniversary. Also, many streaming services are showing it at the moment as well.