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Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 20th Century Figures) for Thursday, June 26, 2025 (Season 41, Game 209):
Ironic in light of her name, she was remembered in a eulogy as “the most hunted person of the modern age”
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s Jeopardy! contestants:
Janis Raye, a marketing & publishing professional from St. Johnsbury, Vermont
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Rocco Graziano, a substitute teacher from Staten Island, New York
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Kiley Campbell, a teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah (1-day total: $24,201)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts:
Kiley Campbell is now your ninth champion on Jeopardy! in as many episodes. Today, she hopes to end the carousel of 1-day champions by defeating Janis Raye of St. Johnsbury, Vermont and Rocco Graziano of Staten Island, New York. That being said, Kiley did have eight incorrect responses yesterday; she’ll probably be hoping that number goes down today. (For what it’s worth, one rule of thumb for me when it comes to determining if I think if a player needs to try buzzing in more/less often: a player’s correct responses should be around 9 to 10 times that of their incorrect responses.)
I want to link to an editorial that Kiley wrote in December 2024 in The Salt Lake Tribune, titled “There is no bridge building with those who don’t think you have a right to exist”; I think it is an excellent description of the political situation in the United States right now, and a reiteration that trans rights are human rights.
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Correct response: Who was Diana, Princess of Wales?
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Diana, Princess of Wales, was the first wife of King Charles III (when Charles was still Prince of Wales); perpetually hunted by the paparazzi, she was killed in a 1997 automobile accident in Paris. The irony part of the clue today refers to the fact that in Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of the hunt (equated with Artemis in Greek mythology).
The funeral oration/eulogy referred to in the clue was delivered at Diana’s funeral by her younger brother, Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, with his own rebuke of the paparazzi who chased his sister coming as, “My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. 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.” The full text is still available via the BBC’s website.
This was a relatively straightforward Final Jeopardy clue for me; that said, I am also the age where I still vividly remember hearing the news in 1997 that Diana had passed. (I also think that any potential complaints about usage of the word “ironic” today in the clue can be quashed by the fact that the word was used in the eulogy itself by Earl Spencer.)
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Game Recap & Tonight’s Game Stats:
Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Here’s the Thursday, June 26, 2025 Jeopardy! by the numbers, along with a recap:
Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Presidential Births; Let’s “C” The Critter; Literal Answers To Rhetorical Questions; A Couple Of Things; All About Friends; Compound Adjectives)
A couple of incorrect responses kept Kiley’s score down; after 15 clues, the scores were Rocco $1,800 Janis $1,200 Kiley $1,000.
Statistics at the first break (15 clues):
Rocco 3 correct 0 incorrect
Janis 2 correct 0 incorrect
Kiley 6 correct 2 incorrect
Today’s interviews:
Janis has a son who won a game in 2017 and ended up on Fallon.
Rocco accidentally ran into Madeline Albright—literally—when running late for a class.
Kiley had a recent 1,000-foot fall while skiing.
Kiley fell back to $0 after missing a True Daily Double; she recovered back to second place by the end of the round, though.
Statistics after the Jeopardy round:
Rocco 8 correct 0 incorrect
Kiley 11 correct 4 incorrect
Janis 3 correct 1 incorrect
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Rocco $4,800
Kiley $2,200
Janis $1,000
Double Jeopardy! Round:
(Categories: Thinking About The Enlightenment; Nation-al Geographic; Musical Theater; Fictional Clergy; Just The Facts; “Ma*m”)
Rocco found both of the Daily Doubles in a three-clue span, picked up $6,000 from them, and cruised to a runaway.
Statistics after Double Jeopardy:
Rocco 18 correct 2 incorrect
Janis 9 correct 2 incorrect
Kiley 20 correct 7 incorrect
Total number of unplayed clues this season: 40 (0 today).
Scores going into Final:
Rocco $17,200
Janis $7,800
Kiley $5,800
This Final Jeopardy was a Triple Stumper; Rocco’s runaway makes him the new champion; he’ll be back tomorrow to defend.
Tonight’s results:
Kiley $5,800 – $5,800 = $0 (Who is Sanger?)
Janis $7,800 – $3,801 = $3,999 (Who is Found?)
Rocco $17,200 – $0 = $17,200 (Who is) (1-day total: $17,200)
Other Miscellaneous Game Statistics:
Daily Double locations:
1) A COUPLE OF THINGS $600 (clue #20)
Kiley 1800 -1800 (Rocco 3000 Janis 400)
2) MUSICAL THEATER $2000 (clue #6)
Rocco 6000 +2000 (Kiley 5000 Janis 1800)
3) THINKING ABOUT THE ENLIGHTENMENT $1200 (clue #8, $26400 left on board)
Rocco 9600 +4000 (Kiley 5000 Janis 1800)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: -25
Clue Selection by Row, Before Daily Doubles Found:
J! Round:
Kiley 2 3 4 4 1 2 5 4 1 3 4 3*
Rocco 3 4 5 1 4
Janis 2 3 2
DJ! Round:
Kiley 3 2
Rocco 4 5* 4 3*
Janis 2 1
Average Row of Clue Selection, Before Daily Doubles Found:
Rocco 3.67
Janis 2.00
Kiley 2.93
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:
Rocco $14,400 Coryat, 18 correct, 2 incorrect, 31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57), 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Janis $7,800 Coryat, 9 correct, 2 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
Kiley $7,600 Coryat, 20 correct, 7 incorrect, 42.11% in first on buzzer (24/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $29,800
Lach Trash: $12,600 (on 12 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $11,600
Lead Changes: 4
Times Tied: 5
Player Statistics:
Kiley Campbell, career statistics:
44 correct, 16 incorrect
2/3 on rebound attempts (on 7 rebound opportunities)
46.49% in first on buzzer (53/114)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $10,100
Rocco Graziano, career statistics:
18 correct, 3 incorrect
0/0 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
31.58% in first on buzzer (18/57)
2/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $6,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $14,400
Janis Raye, career statistics:
9 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 8 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $7,800
Rocco Graziano, to win:
2 games: 56.681%
3: 32.127%
4: 18.210%
5: 10.322%
6: 5.850%
Avg. streak: 2.308 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- Today’s runaway game means that no wagering suggestions will get posted.
- I’m pretty sure that Janis’s son is Ben Raphel.
- Today’s box score will be linked to when posted by the show.
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Totally missed this one. Was thinking along the lines of a notorious figure who would have been hunted, instead of the irony of having a name like Diana or Artemis and being constantly pursued.
I was in the same boat. Was thinking in terms of notorious individuals, and the best one I could come up with, that came closest to fitting the clue, was Bonnie Parker. I have to admit, the only non-American woman I thought of in regards to the clue was Mata Hari, and she didn’t seem to work, either. I fall back on what I said in comments a couple of weeks ago; what’s a straightforward clue to some isn’t necessarily straightforward to all.
I remember this in the news back in the day, but I also remember intentionally ignoring it out of spite when it overshadowed Mother Theresa’s death. So I had never heard of the quote, and this was a “never in my kitchen” moment for me.
I remember the re-written “Candle in the Wind” which to my surprise I heard on the radio a couple of days ago, but I had no memory of this quote, if I ever heard it in the first place.
I was 42 when Diana died, so I vividly remember that as vividly as I remember JFK’s death when I was 8 years old!!
Today’s FJ may be a triple get, but who knows.
I was trying to think about a criminal whom the law was hunting for rather than a popular figure.
New champion Rocco Graziano taught at P.S. 29 on Staten Island, where I went to school from kindergarten through 5th grade. Fond memories of that place.
Andy, I would like to complement you on the level of detail and criteria you use in forecasting. I doubt if any of the “rocket scientists” that have nothing better to do than point out when you are “wrong”. Wrong being in quotes as there is no wrong in forecasting. I doubt if even half of the over/under and spreads on sports are ever correct. It’s a very inexact science, i.e., weather, sports, elections, stock market. Most of those clowns probably couldn’t get yesterdays results correct. I am constantly reminded that of all the factors that go into forecasting Jeopardy the one you can never plan on is the categories. We have a friend who does sheep herding, where a dog goes out and tries to bring a herd back to the starting position. When observing this activity many times, I asked, don’t the sheep have a lot to do with the results? They said, “it can often be about the livestock”. In watching Jeopardy over the past 20+ years, we now refer to the categories as “livestock”, as they make all the difference in every game. Sports, business, royalty, geography, etc., all are candidates for 0 for 5. Some have a degree of difficulty of 8-10, others 2-4. Some games are all about the “livestock”! Keep up your good work and realize haters are always going to hate.
I found the question to be too broad with an oblique clue: no timeframe, no place, no hint of occupation or status, no hint but “ironic”, leaving it open to a woman of the modern era. I’m sure some viewers got it but it was typical of this year’s questions.
I very quickly decided it was probably Princess Diana and the only reason I wasn’t super confident was the oblique clue. I imagine they didn’t make the clue any more clear was the assumption that it was not that difficult in the first place and they didn’t want to make it “easy”.
I was sure enough that I didn’t even try to think of an alternative and though I did not at first recall her brother having said that in his eulogy, after I’d already decided on her, I remembered so. I had known the Diana/Huntress thing but did not recall it on my own, so it wasn’t necessary to come up with the correct response, would just have cemented the choice.
I agree completely. I went with Dian Fossey, which I thought was a better fit because her run-ins were with literal poachers. Maybe there’s a bit of irony there as well.
I agree she deserved consideration, but since only a select group in a small area of the world was hunting her (even though she was literally being hunted to be killed) and “hunted” doesn’t necessarily mean “to kill” and the clue said “most hunted”, I would have figured that Diane Fossey was only a last resort response.
My guess was Amelia Earhart …got the hunted part, not the irony. Oops.
I have unusual connections to that tragic event: depending on how time is measured (since us Yanks were a few time zones away) Princess Diana died on my 27th birthday.
Then for my birthday my family took me to see the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ first ever regular season game in their new uniforms (no more creamsicle orange). Needless to say while Warren Sapp was destroying Jerry Rice, no one in the crowd was talking about Princess Di.
There was a colorful boxer and TV personality named Rocky Graziano. I wonder if this one is related. 🙂
My thoughts exactly. I haven’t seen the episode yet but I was hoping something would be said about that on the broadcast.
And Rocco makes 10, champions that is. With Rocco’s victory today, the carousel continues to a nice round number of 10. Actually, in my opinion, “Carousel of Champions” has a nice ring to it. Can you trade mark that, Andy?
As for today’s Final, I found it pretty straight forward, too. I should think that anyone of a certain age might have fairly distinct memories of that tragic event. Because of the tragedy and the events surrounding it, the correct response came to mind fairly quickly.
Apropos of Andy’s pregame thoughts, what the heck are some people afraid of anyway? There are all kinds of people in the world, why can’t people just accept that there are going to be people who are different from one’s self. Kiley’s editorial is well stated and I recommend that everyone read her piece when they get a chance and give it some thought. Thanks for the link to the editorial, Andy.
Sadly, as a trans woman, I can tell you that a lot of people irrationally fear the trans community, especially trans women. Some because once they know one of us is trans, they cannot divorce who we are now from the person we were before transition. Some because we are in defiance of “God’s Plan”. Some for no good reason at all. And in the current climate, particularly in the US and the UK, it’s a daunting position to be in, and to have to confront on a day-to-day basis.
✊ (expressing support for transgender equality, visibility, acceptance and justice) 🏳⚧