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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Literary Allusions) for Wednesday, June 25, 2025 (Season 41, Game 208):
One of the first chatbots was named for this language-learning character from a 1913 play & 1956 musical
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Greg Harris, an attorney from Washington, D.C.
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Kiley Campbell, a teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah
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Micah Fritz, a teacher from Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1-day total: $14,200)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Alex Trebek always said that the best Jeopardy! contestants were students, teachers, and lawyers. Today, we get a combination of two of those three occupations as defending champion Micah Fritz—a teacher—takes on Kiley Campbell—also a teacher—and attorney Greg Harris.
Meanwhile, will the Carousel of Champions come to an end anytime soon? We’re at 8 straight games with a new champion, and I feel like we’re overdue for a good long-running champion at this point; it would be nice to go into the summer with a nice champion run.
Also, there’s one category in today’s Double Jeopardy round that I’m quite looking forward to: “Musical Geography With Johnny Gilbert”. That’s always a fun time!
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Correct response: Who is Eliza Doolittle?
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The famous Eliza chatbot of the 1960s, developed by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT, simulated conversation as a mock psychotherapist between itself and a human at a computer terminal. It was named after Eliza Doolittle, the well-known language-learning character from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion and the Lerner & Loewe musical My Fair Lady (which was based upon Pygmalion).
In my experience, this should be relatively straightforward for fans who remember that 1913 play + 1956 musical points to Pygmalion/My Fair Lady; from there, just a cursory knowledge of the characters should be enough to get to a correct response.
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Wednesday, June 25, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: A Dog Of A Story; On The Map; All Alone; This Is Not A Drill; I Love You, Man; Figures Of Speech)
Despite a smattering of incorrect responses across the board, it was Micah who got off to the best start. At the break, your scores were Micah $3,600 Kiley $1,000 Greg -$800.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Micah 6 correct 1 incorrect
Kiley 5 correct 2 incorrect
Greg 1 correct 2 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Greg had to bribe his way out of a situation in Nairobi, Kenya.
Kiley was on the U.S. cup stacking team.
Micah is a big fan of woodworking.
Kylie found the Daily Double; she used it to jump into a good-sized lead after 30 clues.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Kiley 13 correct 4 incorrect
Micah 9 correct 1 incorrect
Greg 4 correct 2 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Kiley $7,800
Micah $5,800
Greg -$200
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Musical Geography With Johnny Gilbert; Welcome To Your Microbiome; 3-Letter Responses; Big In Feudal Japan; World Leaders; Xs & Os)
Greg and Micah found the Daily Doubles; they only picked up $2,000 apiece from them. Kiley had some trouble remembering the category constraints at times, and that meant Micah had a $1,600 lead going into Final Jeopardy.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Micah 16 correct 1 incorrect
Kiley 23 correct 8 incorrect
Greg 10 correct 3 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 40 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Micah $15,800
Kiley $14,200
Greg $6,200
Kiley was the only player correct in Final, and that makes her the new Jeopardy! champion! She’ll be back tomorrow to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Greg $6,200 – $6,200 = $0 (Who is)
Kiley $14,200 + $10,001 = $24,201 (who is eliza doolittle?) (1-day total: $24,201)
Micah $15,800 – $5,000 = $10,800 (Who is ?)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) ON THE MAP $800 (clue #21)
Kiley 4400 +2400 (Micah 4400 Greg -800)
2) WELCOME TO YOUR MICROBIOME $1200 (clue #5)
Greg 1000 +2000 (Micah 6600 Kiley 7800)
3) BIG IN FEUDAL JAPAN $1600 (clue #20, $11600 left on board)
Micah 13400 +2000 (Kiley 12200 Greg 4600)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 169
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Micah 2 3 4 5 1 3 4 4 5
Kiley 2 2 5 1 3 3 4 5 4*
Greg 3 4 3
DJ! Round:
Micah 1 3 2 3 5 2 4*
Kiley 2 4 5 4 3 3 2 3
Greg 1 2 3* 4† 5†
† – selection in same category as Daily Double
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Kiley 3.24
Micah 3.19
Greg 3.13
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 40 (0.19 per episode average), 0 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Kiley $12,600 Coryat, 23 correct, 8 incorrect, 50.88% in first on buzzer (29/57), 0/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Micah $15,400 Coryat, 16 correct, 1 incorrect, 26.32% in first on buzzer (15/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
Greg $5,400 Coryat, 10 correct, 3 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57), 3/4 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $33,400
Lach Trash: $12,200 (on 11 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,400
Lead Changes: 5
Times Tied: 3
Player Statistics:
Micah Fritz, career statistics:
35 correct, 7 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
31.58% in first on buzzer (36/114)
2/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $4,000)
0/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $15,100
Kiley Campbell, career statistics:
24 correct, 8 incorrect
0/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
50.88% in first on buzzer (29/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,400)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $12,600
Greg Harris, career statistics:
10 correct, 4 incorrect
3/4 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
14.04% in first on buzzer (8/57)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $5,400
Kiley Campbell, to win:
2 games: 50.568%
3: 25.571%
4: 12.931%
5: 6.539%
6: 3.307%
Avg. streak: 2.023 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
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Final Jeopardy! wagering suggestions:
(Scores: Micah $15,800 Kiley $14,200 Greg $6,200)
Micah: Standard cover bet today is $12,601. If you really think that Kiley will bet to keep Greg locked out, a bet of $201 covers Kiley’s small range. (Actual bet: $5,000)
Kiley: A bet of $1,799 or less keeps Greg locked out. (Actual bet: $10,001)
Greg: Limit your bet today to $3,000. (Actual bet: $6,200)
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I was so far off and yet so close at the same time. I said Dr. Dolittle.
I was not “far off”, just “close, but not close enough”. I was pretty sure it was referring to My Fair Lady, but couldn’t think of Eliza’s name fast enough. [Probably because I mostly associate Doolittle with war hero Jimmy Doolittle, Dr. Doolittle, and Loretta Lynn’s husband’s nickname!]
I’d momentarily considered Helen Keller, but didn’t think The Miracle Worker had ever been done as a musical. I think a red herring in the clue was ‘language learning’ which I’d think some people would take to mean like learning French if you only know English or maybe a story sort of like the movie Nell. Initially going down that path could keep someone from re-routing toward My Fair Lady soon enough. [I turned from Helen Keller direction very quickly, but still couldn’t think of Eliza’s name fast enough.]
Me too! I wonder, would “Dolittle” have been accepted?
I got as far as Pygmalion before time ran out.
Yeah, I think most of the contestants will get this. Although aware of the play Pygmalion, I didn’t know it opened in 1913. The year 1956, however, is enough of a giveaway for Broadway buffs. Interesting, the producers chose to open My Fair Lady in New York rather than London, possibly fearing the brutality of the London critics.
My Fair Lady was Lerner and Loewe’s sixth show and all of them were created with their aim being Broadway!
YES! A JOHNNY GILBERT CATEGORY!
Also, I don’t care if this is more straightforward; I want more Finals like this, where you can figure out from the clues and feel like you’ve learned something while still getting credit. It’s a great mix, and it’s the type of FJ I’d write were I on the staff.
Incidentally, I never thought of Eliza as a chatbot, and I’m someone who took computer science classes in LISP where we tried to recreate the DOCTOR persona of Eliza. (Granted, those were way back in 1996-97, so the term “chatbot” wasn’t ubiquitous yet.)
I remember learning LISP in an AI class along with Prolog and Ada. In 1987.
I wonder if just Eliza (as I said, thinking of the chatbot) would be acceptable.
For fictional characters, just the first name suffices.
I learned something interesting about My Little Fair and Doolittle. Good Final Jeopardy!
Hey, Ted, is that a weird auto-correct or are you referring to something other than “My Fair Lady”? Sounds like some kind of mashup of Edith Piaf’s “My Little Square” and “My Fair Lady.”
I’d be interested to know, Andy, your thoughts on today’s wagering. Is there any rationale for the numbers the contestants wagered? Micha’s makes no sense, Kiley’s would have lost to a cover bet, and Greg’s only hope is to wager little and get a triple stumper.
It’s been awhile since I had the correct response to a Final Jeopardy, but today was one of those days the clue/answer just clicked for me. I wasn’t aware of the “chatbot” mentioned but the reference tp language learning, a play, and, a movie implied (but not actually said) to have bwwn made from the play, just “sang out” to me as being Pygmallion, and, My Fair Lady, and, the character that they seemed to be centered around. I never have seen the original play, or, the movie, but have heard enough about them to know it was (E)Liza Doolittle.
Time to complain about the clickbait stories, Passed by one who called Monday’s unfair. Without diving into it, knew that it had to be referring that Monday’s winner was a relation to the correct response, as Ken Mentioned at the top of Tuesday’s game. But, those who follow Jeopardy regularly know that gameboards are selected at random by an independent judging organization in advance of a taping session, without knowing who will be playing in the game that the gameboard was selected for. Like in today’s game, one contestant was a woodworker, so he knew more about the tools in the “Tool TIme” category than the others. Maybe ubnfair to the others, BUT it was a coincidence that the category was used in today’s game, because of the way gameboards are selected.
Wow, today’s Final really took me back. I had the pleasure of seeing Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison in the original Broadway run of “My Fair Lady” back in 1956. The “Playbill” from that show is stashed away somewhere in my house. Having seen the musical a few times since then, this was easy enough to get. Hard to believe but that was almost 70 years ago.
I have to admit that I backed into the correct answer…
I originally misread the category as “Alliterations” and was headed down the road to HENRY HIGGINS based on the hidden clues. From there I made the easy connection to ELIZA.
As Andy has said in the past, they all count the same in the standings – good job! 🙂
As long as one goes back to review the category and actual clue again, as MasterDoge apparently did.
OOPS, sorry, I didn’t scroll far enough back to cut/paste the name. I meant to reference BFC, not DG.
As I immediately knew the answer. Yes, we didn’t call it a chatbot back then, but the play clues all pointed in the right direction. But my complaint is the category, the clue may be “literary” but the object is Computer History.
In the clue, “was named for” is the “allusion” to a literary character so the category seems fine to me.